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1934 version: "A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way"--IMDb.com.
1959 version: "An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white"--IMDb.com.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Language
English
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"This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores follows the blossoming love between a well-off widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. When their romance prompts the scorn of her children and country-club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others. A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America"--Container....
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The emotionally charged story about two widows -- one white, one black -- and their daughters. In the 1934 version, the women start a pancake business, in the 1959 version, one is an actress, the other out of work. In both versions, trouble begins when one daughter falls for her mother's beau and the other decides to pass as white.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black performers Beavers and Washington that lends the film its transcendent...
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Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black performers Beavers and Washington that lends the film its transcendent...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In a passionate and witty behind-the-scenes expose, the author of All About "All About Eve" takes on the classic 1959 Douglas Sirk film starring Lana Turner
Few films inspire the devotion of Imitation of Life, one of the most popular films of the '50s--a split personality drama that's both an irresistible women's picture and a dark commentary on ambition, motherhood, racial identity, and hope lost and found.
Born to be Hurt is the first in-depth...
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Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When a shocking discovery about his own origin makes Victor Stone question everything he thought he knew about his identity and his humanity, it seems Cyborg might be more machine than man after all. But if that's the case, which side will Cyborg take when a mysterious cybernetic entity decides to start a war between man and machines? Now, the people Victor Stone cares about the most are caught up in the crossfire, and the choices he makes may mean...
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Publisher
The Broad
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The first career survey to explore the full range of the artist's [Cindy Sherman's] photographic series through the critical lens of cinema. Featuring more than 130 illustrations, ... it explores the artist's use of cinematic artifice across almost 40 years of work." --back cover.
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Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"After a high profile case that put him in the headlines, private detective John Shaft is looking for something low profile and easy that will keep him out of the spotlight and out of danger. Shaft takes a missing person case that proves to be more difficult than he initially thought. At the same time, he is hired to be a consultant on a low budget film that may or may not be based on his life, and proves to be as dangerous as any job he's ever had....
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English
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Garry Kasparov has taken the lessons he learned as a world champion chess player and applied them to his new career as a political strategist. A highly sought-after business speaker, Kasparov explains how to use the tools of chess to become more successful in business-- and in life.
15) Back street
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A quintessential tearjerker in which a couple meets and falls in love but is unable to marry due to impossible circumstances.
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Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"A bestseller in 1933, and subsequently adapted into two beloved and controversial films, Imitation of Life has played a vital role in ongoing conversations about race, femininity, and the American Dream. Bea Pullman, a white single mother, and her African American maid, Delilah Johnston, also a single mother, rear their daughters together and become business partners. Combining Bea’s business savvy with Delilah’s irresistible southern recipes,...
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Publisher
Sports Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For the last half century, Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter Ira Berkow has been at the center of some of the most memorable moments in sports history. From the World Series, NBA Finals, and Super Bowl, to Heavyweight Title Fights, the Olympics, and The Masters, he has seen and covered them all. After fifty years covering sports, with more than twenty-five as a journalist for the New York Times, How Life Imitates Sports shares how these events--and...
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Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Rocketing from the pages of DC REBIRTH: JUSTICE LEAGUE, CYBORG VOL. 2 is the thrilling series by animation writer John Semper Jr. (Spider-Man: The Animated Series) and artists Will Conrad (NIGHTWING) and Paul Pelletier (AQUAMAN). Cyborg is the Justice League's most high-tech hero, but can he withstand an attack by another of his brilliant father's creations? Captured by those he thought he could trust, Cyborg discovers a covert plot to use alien...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Cleopatra: A stylish and lavish portrayal of the notorious Egyptian empress's love for Roman general Marc Antony. Imitation of Life: Two women forma an enduring friendship as they struggle through financial hardship and racial prejudice to raise their daughters.Midnight: An out-of-work American showgirl gets caught up in Parisian high society. The Palm Beach story: Two sets of identical twins marry one another's sweethearts, and then are forced by...
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