Imitation of Life (1959) on 35mm

Screenwriters: Eleanore Griffin, Allan Scott from the novel by Fannie Hurst Producer: Ross Hunter Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, and Sandra Dee light up the screen in this Douglas Sirk tearjerking melodrama of single mothers and racial identity. The second screen adaptation of Fannie Hurst’s incendiery novel, Douglas Sirk ratchets up the drama, the color, and the story of this powerful tale of women’s resilience from its predecessor with Claudette Colbert. Lora Meredith (suspected murderess Lana Turner), a white single mother who dreams of being on Broadway, takes in a black widow Annie (Juanita…