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Lana Turner John Gavin Sandra Dee Susan Kohner Robert Alda Dan O'Herlihy Juanita Moore

Imitation of Life 1959

125 minutes

'Fannie Hurst's best selling novel of today's tormented generation!'

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.

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