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    Imitation of Life (1959) is an American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal International. It was Sirk's...
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    Imitation of Life is a 1934 American drama film directed by John M. Stahl. The screenplay by William Hurlbut, based on Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel of the...
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  • Hurst Imitation of Life (1934 film), an adaptation of the novel starring Claudette Colbert Imitation of Life (1959 film), an adaptation of the novel starring...
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    Imitation of Life is a popular 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst that was adapted into two successful films for Universal Pictures: a 1934 film, and a 1959 remake...
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  • Sirk's 1959 film of the same name and is used as a metaphor for adolescence and adulthood. One of R.E.M.'s most pop-influenced tracks, "Imitation of Life" has...
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  • Georgina Lawton (category Irish people of Nigerian descent)
    Melungeon A Chosen Exile by Allyson Hobbs Anita Florence Hemmings Imitation of Life (1959 film) Broyard, Bliss (23 February 2021). "They Were Black. Their Parents...
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    Juanita Moore (category American film actresses)
    was as Annie Johnson in the film Imitation of Life (1959). Juanita Moore was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, the daughter of Ella (née Dunn) and Harrison...
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  • 30 April Imitation of Life May 1959 1 May The World of Apu (India) 2 May The Sign of Leo (France) 4 May The 400 Blows (France) The Hound of the Baskervilles...
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    Susan Kohner (category American film actresses)
    American actress who worked in film and television. She played Sarah Jane, a young African-American woman, in Imitation of Life (1959), for which she was nominated...
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    Sandra Dee (category American film actresses)
    another film for Hunter, A Stranger in My Arms (1959). Dee's third film for Hunter was of greater impact than the first two: Imitation of Life (1959), starring...
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  • Alvera Frederic (category American people of Creole descent)
    Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing. Tragic mulatto Passing (novel) The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Imitation of Life (1959 film) "My mother...
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  • highest-grossing new film at the American box office in May 1959, and third-highest overall behind Some Like It Hot and Imitation of Life. The film's box-office...
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  • of relationships. The film has the feel of other mother–daughter melodramas like Stella Dallas (1937), Mildred Pierce (1945), Imitation of Life (1959)...
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  • Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) The Cry of Jazz (1959)≈ Moonbird (1959) Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) Science Friction (1959) Pull My Daisy (1959)≈ Shadows...
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    John Gavin (category American male film actors)
    films he appeared in were A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), Imitation of Life (1959), Spartacus (1960), Psycho (1960), Midnight Lace (1960) and Thoroughly...
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  • Battle Hymn (1957) Intertude (1957) The Tarnished Angels (1958) Imitation of Life (1959) Jerzy Skolimowski Stanley Myers King, Queen, Knave (1972) Moonlighting...
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    Ross Hunter (category American male film actors)
    Magnificent Obsession (1954), Imitation of Life (1959), and Back Street (1961). Over the course of his career, Hunter produced films of various genres but found...
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  • Than Wyenn (category American male film actors)
    film and television. He may be best known for his role in the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "Execution", as well as roles in Imitation of Life in 1959 and...
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  • Johnson, character in Annie-for-Spite Annie Johnson, character in Imitation of Life (1959 film) MS Costa Allegra, formerly known as Annie Johnson, a cruise...
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  • Imitation General is a 1958 American black-and-white comedy war film in CinemaScope, directed by George Marshall, produced by William B. Hawks, and starring...
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  • Terry Burnham (category American film actresses)
    in 1960. Burnham played the young daughter of Lana Turner's character in the film Imitation of Life (1959), which was widely popular. Burnham retired...
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    Robert Alda (category American male film actors)
    film Rhapsody in Blue (1945) as well as the talent agent in the Douglas Sirk classic Imitation of Life (1959). On Broadway, he originated the role of...
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    This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures in 1950–1959, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is...
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  • Far from Heaven (category Killer Films films)
    homage to the films of Douglas Sirk (especially 1955's All That Heaven Allows, 1956's Written on the Wind, and 1959's Imitation of Life), and explores...
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  • This list of longest films is composed of films with a running time of 300 minutes (5 hours) or more. Note: Some releases are extended cuts or director's...
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    Lana Turner (category American film actresses)
    struggle in their home. Her next film, Imitation of Life (1959), proved to be one of the greatest commercial successes of her career and her starring role...
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    Douglas Sirk (category English-language film directors)
    with film melodramas Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, and Imitation of Life. While...
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    Fannie Hurst (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    is known for the film adaptations of her works, including Imitation of Life (1934), Four Daughters (1938), Imitation of Life (1959), Humoresque (1946)...
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  • Imfura (2017) Imitation (2007) Imitation of Christ (1967) The Imitation Game (2014) Imitation General (1958) Imitation of Life: (1934 & 1959) Immaan Dharam...
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    Karim Aïnouz (category Brazilian film directors)
    choice. Aïnouz selections were: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Imitation of Life (1959) Hour of the Star (1985) Un Chant d'Amour (1950) Red Desert (1964) News...
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