Imitation of life

Name: Imitation of life
Director: Douglas Sirk
Released: 1959
Duration: 2 h
Cast: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Robert Alda, Terry Burnham

by Douglas Sirk2h041959United States

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An aspiring actress befriends a black widow, but trouble arises when the latter is rejected by her daughter, who tries to pass for white.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Scenario : Allan Scott, Eleanore Griffin
- Original Work Author : Fannie Hurst
- Photo Director : Russell Metty
- Set Decoration : Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron
- Sound Recorder : Leslie I. Carey, Joe Lapis
- Editing : Milton Carruth
- Original Music : Frank Skinner, Henry Mancini
- Producer : Ross Hunter, Universal International Pictures
- Director : Douglas Sirk
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1959
- French release date : 15 août 1959
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : English

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This film is part of the Cinematographic movement
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Imitation of life

The film"s page

Credits

Technical details

Other films

By the same director

Written on the Wind

All That Heaven Allows

Magnificent obsession

From the same year

Hiroshima, My Love

Pickpocket

The Good Time Girls

With the same cast

Lana Turner

The Bad and the Beautiful

A Life of Her Own

John Gavin

Psycho

Spartacus

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

Juanita Moore

The Girl Can't Help It

This film is recommended by

Chantal Akerman

Lynne Ramsay

Noémie Lvovsky

Todd Haynes

François Ozon

Christian Petzold

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"L’âge d’or des studios américains "