Imitation of Life

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Karen Dicker, Juanita Moore, and Terry Burnham sit together on a couch while Lana Turner stands holding a folder in a living room scene from the film Imitation of Life (1959).

Imitation of Life

film by Sirk [1959]

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Douglas Sirk
From All That Heaven Allows to Imitation of Life
…the stir brought about by Imitation of Life (1959), the last of Sirk’s expressionist tours de force, which was based on a novel by Fannie Hurst that had been filmed previously, in 1934, by Stahl. Sirk’s version starred Lana Turner as an actress and uninterested mother whose daughter (Sandra Dee)…
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…the stir brought about by Imitation of Life (1959), the last of Sirk’s expressionist tours de force, which was based on a novel by Fannie Hurst that had been filmed previously, in 1934, by Stahl. Sirk’s version starred Lana Turner as an actress and uninterested mother whose daughter (Sandra Dee)…
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Lana Turner
Academy Award nomination; Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life (1959); and Madame X (1966). Thereafter she occasionally appeared in minor film melodramas and such television soap operas as Falcon Crest.
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Academy Award nomination; Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life (1959); and Madame X (1966). Thereafter she occasionally appeared in minor film melodramas and such television soap operas as Falcon Crest.
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