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   Critics consensus Douglas Sirk enriches this lush remake of Imitation of Life with racial commentary and a sharp edge, yielding a challenging melodrama with the power to devastate. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

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   Is imitation of life based on a true story?

   • Adapted from the novel by Fannie Hurst, "Imitation of Life" is a multi-layered melodrama that feels staid in some places and fresh as a daisy in others. The film remains a conscientious depiction of the bitter realities of race in America. Miss Beavers, who has been in pictures for about ten years found her masterpiece in Imitation of Life.

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   Is imitation of life a good movie?

   • Imitation of Life is sumptuously filmed. The cinematography is beautiful, as are the costumes, scenery and sets. The music is excellent too, not just in the incidental music but also in the funeral song sung by Mahalia Jackson. It is absolutely gut-wrenching, and when my family and I saw it there wasn't a dry eye in the room as that song played.

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   Was 'imitation of life' a classic?

   • And the original Imitation Of Life with Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers was a classic indeed. The film is updated with the action beginning at the end of World War II until the present which would be 1959 in the movie.

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   Is imitation of life a melodrama?

   • Douglas Sirk enriches this lush remake of Imitation of Life with racial commentary and a sharp edge, yielding a challenging melodrama with the power to devastate. Lora Meredith (Lana Turner), a white single mother who dreams of being on Broadway, has a chance encounter with Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), a black widow.

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   Rated: 4.5/5 Mar 31, 2023 Full Review Richard Brody New Yorker Sirk unleashed a melodramatic torrent of rage at the corrupt core of American life-the unholy trinity of racism, commercialism,...

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     Imitation of Life is still a potent onion. When passed...

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   Imitation of Life isn't always subtle, but even as it tugs at the heartstrings, this socially conscious melodrama effectively explores Jim Crow-era racial taboos. Read Critics Reviews

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   • Actors: Claudette Colbert

   • Director: John M. Stahl
   • Category: Drama

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   Jul 3, 2003 · 1959’s sardonic Imitation of Life deals with blond bombshell Lora Meredith’s rise to fame and her complicated relationships with a series of carnivorous men, her hot-headed daughter, and her angelic African-American maid Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore). Though Lora (Lana Turner) shuns the love of Steve Archer (John Gavin) and lies in order to ...

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   Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2023. Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly. Adapted from the novel by Fannie Hurst, "Imitation of Life" is a multi-layered melodrama that feels...

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   Jan 10, 2023 · Directed by John M. Stahl for Universal Pictures, and based on Fannie Hurst’s best-selling 1933 prefeminist rags-to-riches novel of the same name, the film raises issues of gender roles, labor, race, identity, and the American dream in a melodramatic framework that might have otherwise been regarded as that of a mere “ladies’ picture.”

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   IMITATION OF LIFE, basically a romantic potboiler by Fannie Hurst that would not be out of place in an Oprah's Book of the Month, is here given the grand Technicolor treatment and stars Lana Turner -- not particularly known for warmth or romantic heroines.

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    Jan 9, 2023 · Blu-ray Review: John M. Stahl’s Imitation of Life on the Criterion Collection The film remains a conscientious depiction of the bitter realities of race in America. by Eric Henderson