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Title Imitation of life / [presented by] Universal International ; produced by Ross Hunter ; screenplay by Eleanore Griffin and Allan Scott ; directed by Douglas Sirk.

Publication Info. Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Video, [2002]
©2002

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 Moore Video  PN1997 .I4553 2002    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Widescreen version.
Description 1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
mono
Dolby digital 2.0
video file
DVD video
region 1
System Details DVD, Region 1 encoding, anamorphic widescreen (aspect 1.85:1), Dolby digital 2.0 mono.
Cast Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Dan O'Herlihy, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda, Juanita Moore, Mahalia Jackson.
Credits Director of photography, Russell Metty ; film editor, Milton Carruth ; music, Frank Skinner, Mahalia Jackson.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.
Based on the novel by Fannie Hurst.
Audience MPAA rating: Not rated.
Summary 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.
Awards Best Supporting Actress nominations (Academy Awards): Juanita Moore; Susan Kohner.
Language English dialogue, Spanish or French subtitles; Closed-captioned.
Subject Mothers and daughters -- Drama.
Mothers and daughters.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Passing (Identity) -- Drama.
Passing (Identity)
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Romances.
Romances.
Romance films.
Romance films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Romance fiction.
Feature.
Romance fiction.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Hunter, Ross.
Griffin, Eleanore.
Scott, Allan, 1906-1995.
Sirk, Douglas, 1897-1987.
Turner, Lana, 1921-1995.
Gavin, John, 1931-2018.
Dee, Sandra.
O'Herlihy, Dan, 1919-2005.
Kohner, Susan, 1936-
Alda, Robert.
Moore, Juanita.
Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972.
Metty, Russell.
Carruth, Milton.
Skinner, Frank, 1897-1968.
Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968. Imitation of life.
Universal-International (Firm)
Universal Studios Home Video (Firm)
ISBN 0783276702
9780783276700
Standard No. 025192261121
Music No. 22611 Universal