Mother-daughter relationship Drama Videodiscs.
Methodist Church (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
Moulin-Rouge (Night club : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Remakes
Imitation of life (Motion picture : 1934)
The story of two widowed mothers and their troubled daughters, and how their relationships intertwine.
Films for the hearing impaired
This is the story of two widows and their troubled daughters, In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living out an emotionally fruitless existence.
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
Imitation of life
1934 picture, A filem by John M. Stahl. "Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea's husband died. Help comes in the form of Delilah Johnson, who agrees to work as Bea's housekeeper in exchange for a room for herself and her daughter Peola. Bea comes up with a plan to market Delilah's pancake recipe. The two soon become wealthy and as the years go on, their friendship deepens. Their relationships with their daughters, however, become strained. Ashamed of her mother, Peola seeks a new life by passing for white. Bea's love for her daughter is tested when she and Jessie fall for the same man."--IMDb web-site.
Feature film from the USA. Drama. In post-war New York a white wanna-be actress shares her apartment with a black housekeeper, both single mothers with difficult young daughters.
The emotionally charged story about two widows -- one white, one black -- and their daughters. In the 1934 version, the women start a pancake business, in the 1959 version, one is an actresss, the other out of work. In both versions, trouble begins when one daughter falls for her mother's beau and the other decides to pass as white.
Film adaptations
Story of a widow and her housekeeper who build a business together as their relationships with their daughters disintegrate.
Fiction
In 1947 at Coney Island, down-on-her-luck actress Lora Meredith and her young daughter Susie meet coloured Annie Johnson and her daughter Sarah Jane. Annie is desperate for a place to live and offers to work as Lora's maid for food and lodging. Lora's luck begins to change as a result of their meeting and their two stories unfold across the years. However, Annie's problems start when Sarah Jane tries to pass as white.
Imitation of Life
Feature films
本片描束兩個寡母及她們兩人女兒的故事.Lora是一個追求成就的女演員,因此疏於照顧她的女兒,Lora的黑人管家的女兒則不認自己的母親也不認同自己的膚色.多年後,四個女人回顧自己的過去,才了解到當年她們是活在一個缺乏情感的虛幻世界中
Adaptations
Bea, an entrepreneurial single mother, and her housemaid Delilah build a fortune together-- but success doesn't save them from sorrow in the passing years. Delilah's daughter rejects her mother and her race, while Bea must choose between the man she loves and the daughter who loves him too.
The story of two women trying to find success, but end up finding that success isn't everything. Includes both the 1934 and 1959 releases.
Imitation of life, 1934 & 1959
1959 version: Two single mothers, a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman, attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters.
Drama
Black films and programs
Ben pian miao shu liang ge gua mu ji ta men liang ren nu er de gu shi.Lora shi yi ge zhui qiu cheng jiu de nu yan yuan ,yin ci shu yu zhao gu ta de nu er ,Lora de hei ren guan jia de nu er ze bu ren zi ji de mu qin ye bu ren tong zi ji de fu se.duo nian hou,si ge nu ren hui gu zi ji de guo qu,cai liao jie dao dang nian ta men shi huo zai yi ge que fa qing gan de xu huan shi jie zhong.
Lora Meredith is an aspiring actress and single mother battling to survive postwar New York. During an outing to Coney Island, Lora meets two people who will change her life forever: kindred spirit Annie Johnston, a black woman in need of a home for herself and her pale-skinned daughter Sarah Jane, and photographer Steve Archer.
Romances
Seul-peun-eun geu-dae ga-seum-e
Imitation of life, two-movie
1959 picture, "A film by Douglas Sirk. Screen siren Lana Turner stars as Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress and single mother battling to survive postwar New York. During an outing to Coney Island, Lora meets two people who will change her life forever: kindred spirit Annie Johnston, a black woman in need of a home for herself and her pale-skinned daughter Sarah Jane, and photographer Steve Archer. As Lora's career and love life take her ever further away from her daughter Susie, Annie discovers the shame she brings to the spiteful Sarah Jane, and the lives of the two mothers and daughters begin to parallel in this incisive masterpiece by one of the American lifestyle's most ardent ardent admirers, and staunchest critics."--Back container cover.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Imitation of Life two-movie collection; 1934 film; 1959 film
Two mothers, one a White stage personality and the other a Black housekeeper, find it increasingly difficult to raise their daughters and have a successful and fulfilling life.
1934 version: Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives.
Fiction. Mélodrame. Deux femmes veuves qui élèvent seules leur fille unissent leur destinée. Lora, la mère de Susie, est une comédienne de peau blanche. Annie, la mère de Sarah Jane, est la servante noire de Lora. Ambitieuse, l'actrice néglige sa fille tandis qu'Annie a du mal à faire accepter à la sienne son aspect physique. Avec Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda.
Features
Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
The story of two women and their troubled daughters. During their conflicts they realize that success isn't everything.
1959 picture, "A film by Douglas Sirk. Screen siren Lana Turner stars as Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress and single mother battling to survive postwar New York. During an outing to Coney Island, Lora meets two people who will change her life forever: kindred spirit Annie Johnston, a black woman in need of a home for herself and her pale-skinned daughter Sarah Jane, and photographer Steve Archer. As Lora's career and love life take her ever further away from her daughter Susie, Annie discovers the shame she brings to the spiteful Sarah Jane, and the lives of the two mothers and daughters begin to parallel in this incisive masterpiece by one of the American lifestyle's most ardent ardent admirers, and staunchest critics" --Container.
Imitation of life (Motion picture : 1959)
This film "chronicles two widows and their troubled daughters as they struggle to find true happiness amidst racial prejudice. Lora [is] a single white mother whose Hollywood starlet ambitions come at the expense of any meaningful relationship with her daughter, Susie. Lora's black housekeeper, Annie, has troubles of her own as she faces the rejection of her own fair-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, who abandons her heritage for a chance to be accepted as white. As years of selfishness and denial pass, tragedy strikes and forces the women to come to terms with their own identities."--Container.
"After frantically searching for her lost daughter Susie at Coney Island, an attractive widow named Lora Meredith finds her playing with Sarah Jane, a light-skinned black girl. Lora then meets Sarah Jane's single black mother, Annie Johnson, and a white photographer named Steve Archer, who takes some photographs of the girls. Lora discovers that Annie and Sarah Jane have no place to go, and although she is poor herself, having come to New York in search of an acting career, she invites the two to stay the night in her small apartment. In exchange for her small room, Annie offers to keep house and look after Susie while Lora seeks acting and modeling jobs. One evening, Steve comes by with the photographs, and the next day, he takes Lora to lunch, obviously smitten with her. Later, Lora invents a lie that gets her into the office of Allen Loomis, a well-known theatrical agent, but when he tries to make love to her, arguing that a successful actress must be willing to satisfy such requests, she angrily leaves. Back home, she sobs in frustration while Annie attempts to comfort and encourage her. One cold day, Annie brings Sarah Jane's galoshes to school, where she discovers that her daughter has been trying to conceal her race from her classmates. When Sarah Jane runs from Annie, her distressed mother turns to Lora and asks, 'How do you explain to your child that she was born to be hurt?' Soon afterward, Steve, who has just been hired to promote a brand of beer, proposes to Lora, but she turns him down, saying that even though she loves him, marriage would prevent her from steadfastly pursuing a life in the theater. Just then, Loomis offers her a role in a new comedy by well-known writer David Edwards, but Steve forbids her to visit Loomis, prompting her to accuse him of settling for less in his own career. During her audition, Lora suggests that David rewrite portions of his play, and though angry at first, he soon realizes she is right. After Lora is cast and the play and its new leading actress are hugely successful, the papers report that 'a new star is born' on Broadway. For the next ten years, Lora stars in one hit David Edwards play after another. The playwright wants to marry her, but as she admits one day to Annie, who still works for her, she does not really love him. Lora and David argue when she decides to appear in another writer's drama, but her performance is brilliant, and this play, too, becomes an instant hit. Surprised and overjoyed by a visit from Steve, Lora confesses she still loves him, and the two are reunited. Susie, who has suffered from her busy mother's lack of attention despite the material advantages Lora has provided her, looks forward to taking a trip with Steve and Lora, but the plans are canceled when Lora excitedly accepts a coveted role in an Italian film. Meanwhile, Sarah Jane tells Susie that she secretly has been seeing her white boyfriend, and that she would rather die than be considered black. When the young man learns that Sarah Jane's mother is black, however, he beats her. While Lora is filming in Italy, Steve looks after Susie, and the eager teenager soon falls in love with him. Sarah Jane, meanwhile, claims to have accepted a job in a New York library, but Annie finds her singing and dancing in a seedy New York nightclub. Her mother's appearance gets Sarah Jane fired, and she again runs from her, causing Annie to faint. Back home, Annie tells Lora, who has just returned from Europe, that she will no longer interfere in her daughter's life, adding that she does hope to help her wayward daughter somehow. Steve, now a company vice-president, learns that Sarah Jane is working as a chorus girl in Los Angeles, and Annie, convinced she is dying, flies to California for one last look at her daughter. Sarah Jane is furious, exclaiming, 'I'm somebody else, I'm white.' Annie then introduces herself to Sarah Jane's white friend as Sarah Jane's former nanny and leaves, but not before Sarah Jane tearfully embraces her. Meanwhile, Lora and Susie argue over Steve. When Susie accuses Lora of loving her career more than her, Lora offers to give Steve up, but Susie has decided to go away to college. The two mothers are now alone in the house. One day, Annie tells Lora to make certain all her possessions are left to Sarah Jane and then, after reassuring her old friend that she is 'going to glory, ' dies. Lora breaks down, but sees to it that Annie has the elaborate funeral she had requested. As the long cortege moves slowly along the street, Sarah Jane pushes through the crowds, flings herself on her mother's coffin, and weeps hysterically. Lora and Susie gently lead her into the hearse, where they reassure her that she did not cause her mother's death. As Steve looks on, the three women join hands in a gesture of comfort and love"--AFI catalog, 1951-1960.
Imitation of life (1959)
Imitation of life two-movie collection
The lives of a widow and her housekeeper are united first in mutual need, then success and ultimately, in heartache in this Academy Award-nominated Best Picture. Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers are superb as Bea and Delilah, two women with young daughters who build a life and a fortune together selling Delilah's pancake recipe. But success doesn't save them from sorrow with the passing years. Delilah's light-skinned teenager rejects her mother and her race, while Bea must choose between the man she loves and the daughter who loves him, too. Now all of them will pay the price of love in this spellbinding classic, revered as one of the all-time Hollywood tear-jerkers, from collaborators William Hurlbut and Preston Sturges.
Sociological films and programs
Two single mothers, a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman, attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters.
Imitation of life (1934)
A film in which the conventions of the 'woman's weepie' are manipulated in a melodramatic schema of American class and race relations. An ironic success story, the rise of Lana Turner from housewife to actress, in the first half, merges into intensified melodrama on the theme of race and identity as a light skinned black woman tries to pass as white.
"Laura Meredith es viuda y tiene una hija, la pequeña Susie. Recién llegada a Nueva York no tiene trabajo, pero ambiciona llegar a ser una famosa actriz. Conocerá a una mujer negra, con una hija de la misma edad de Susie. Madres e hijas vivirán juntas a partir de entonces. Laura tendrá su casa e hija atendidas y podrá dedicarse a su profesión"
Two women and their daughters become friends and move in together. One woman is white and an actress, the other is black and lives with her as a housekeeper/friend. Each has a daughter. The film, in many ways a maternal melodrama, looks at issues of race, female friendship and mother-daughter relationships.
Imitation of life seul-peun-eun geu-dae ga-seum-e
Romance
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living out an emotionally fruitless existence.
Emotionally charged story about two widows and their troubled daughters. Includes both the 1934 and 1959 releases. The 1934 version is on the National Film Registry. 1934 - Widescreen, 1959 - Fullscreen.
Video recordings
1934 and 1959 film: Tells the story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
Chun feng qiu yu
Bea, an entrepreneurial widowed mother, and her housekeeper Delilah build a fortune together-- but success doesn't save them from sorrow in the passing years. Delilah's daughter rejects her mother and her race, while Bea must choose between the man she loves and the daughter who loves him too.
Imitation of life (Motion picture)
A struggling young actress with a six-year-old daughter sets up housekeeping with a homeless black widow and her light-skinned eight-year-old daughter who rejects her mother by trying to pass for white.
1934 picture, "A film by John M. Stahl. "Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea's husband died. Help comes in the form of Delilah Johnson, who agrees to work as Bea's housekeeper in exchange for a room for herself and her daughter Peola. Bea comes up with a plan to market Delilah's pancake recipe. The two soon become wealthy and as the years go on, their friendship deepens. Their relationships with their daughters, however, become strained. Ashamed of her mother, Peola seeks a new life by passing for white. Bea's love for her daughter is tested when she and Jessie fall for the same man" --IMDb web-site.
Imitation of Life = chun feng qiu yu
Romance films
Parabole sur la vie américaine à travers l'amitié et le destin de deux femmes qui élevent seules leurs filles, l'une blanche, l'autre noire.
Fiction films
An entrpreneurial single mother and her housemaid turn a recipe for pancake syrup into a financial empire, but prosperity cannot solve their problems in romance and their search for personal identity.
The story of two widowed mothers and their troubled daughters, and how their relationships intertwine over the years.