Imitation of Life
1959 · TMDB 7.4
Directed by Douglas Sirk
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
Why it matters
Sirk's final Hollywood film sets a white actress's stardom against her Black housekeeper's life, and against the daughter who passes for white. The staircase funeral is melodrama operating at full orchestral volume.
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Released
- 1959-04-09
- Studio
- Universal International Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.4
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