Imitation of Life

NTSC/Region 0. Cast: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee Director: Douglas Sirk. The story chronicles two widows and their troubled daughters as they struggle to find true happiness amidst racial prejudice. Lora plays the white mother whose Hollywood starlet ambitions come at the expense of any meaningful relationship with her daughter Susie. Her black housekeeper Annie faces rejection of her own fair-skinned daughter Sarah Jane. As years of selfishness and denial pass, tragedy strikes and forces the women to come to terms with their own identities.