Imitation of Life (Two Movie Collection) 1934/1959
by Douglas Sirk, John M. Stahl
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Actor: Claudette Colbert, John Gavin, Lana Turner, Rochelle Hudson, Warren WilliamDirector: Douglas Sirk, John M. Stahl
Brand: COLBERT,CLAUDETTE
Writer: Allan Scott
Writer: Arthur Richman
Writer: Bianca Gilchirst
Writer: Eleanore Griffin
Writer: Fannie Hurst
Writer: Finley Peter Dunne
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 236 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Imitation of Life (Two Movie Collection) 1934/1959
DVD Review: great dvd
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchase this DVD for sister. She loves this DVD, she can't stop talking about it. Great family movies.DVD Review: Great DVD for your collection
Summary: 5 Stars
Two great movies in one box...I just watched them back to back and love having the 2 disc set. The box is beautiful and the filming is crisp & clear. Claudette and Lana define the word "glamorous". The gowns worn in both movies are mind boggling GORGEOUS! Some of Lana's dresses are still copied today. The only negative thing I can say about this set is there is NO SPECIAL FEATURES. Nada, Nothing. I was SO disappointed. I look forward to the special features almost more than the movie! So that was a big let down. Have always loved the 50's version and my mother loves the 30s version..so we share. I rate this a 5 star...too many reasons to list.DVD Review: Imitation of Life (Two Movie Collection) 1934/1959
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a timeless movie. A classic I have view several times over the past 30 years. However, I must say I like the 1959 version a bit better. It has something for everyone, romance, the social issue (race) during that era, mother and daughter relationships. I always need my kleenex for this movie. This movie is well done.DVD Review: Unhappy
Summary: 1 Stars
My cover, and your web-site stated that I would recieve both the 1934, and 1959 versions of this movie. Well to my surpirse I only got the 1959 version. Due to my hecktic, and busy schedule I haven't have the opportunity to make an inquiry of the possible mistake.
So if you could forward me the correct copy of my initial request I'd greatly appreciate it.
DVD Review: A MUST MUST HAVE!
Summary: 5 Stars
PLEASE DON'T PASS THIS UP! IT WILL TAKE YOU BACK, ONE OF THOSE GREAT MOVIE'S THAT DEAL WITH RACE RELATION'S AND KIND HEART'S, IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU WILL AFTER WATCHING THIS MOVIE! NEW MOVIE'S STILL CAN'T COME CLOSE TO THIS ONE PLEASE BUY AND ENJOY.
Description of Imitation of Life (Two Movie Collection) 1934/1959
Imitation of Life (1934)In this Academy Award-nominated Best Picture, Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers are superb as two women with young daughters who build a fortune together. But success doesn't save them from sorrow with the passing years.
Delilah's light-skinned teenager rejects her mother and her race, while Bea must choose between the man she loves and the daughter who loves him, too. Now all of them will pay the price of love in this spellbinding classic.
Imitation of Life (1959)
Lana Turner heads the outstanding cast with Juanita Moore in the second screen version of this emotionally-charged story about two widows and their troubled daughters.
Lora's search for success causes her to neglect her daughter, while Annie's daughter rejects her culture by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living out an emotionally fruitless existence.
Imitation of Life (1959)
The last film in Hollywood of director Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind), the 1959 Imitation of Life--an adaptation of Fannie Hurst's novel--is an endlessly fascinating film that speaks volumes about the American journey toward materialism and the racial tensions that are inseparable from it. Lana Turner plays a white single mother and aspiring actress who takes in a black housekeeper (Juanita Moore) and her daughter (played by an adolescent Susan Kohner), the latter so light-skinned she passes for white. As the years pass and success mounts for Turner, Moore also becomes more comfortable but her status as a domestic never changes. Meanwhile, Kohner's character, chafing against social constraints, rebels at every opportunity and throws a wrench into the perfect order Sirk chillingly captures through the precise, architectural design of his images. On one hand a '50s weepie and on the other a daring allegory, Imitation of Life is an unusual masterpiece. --Tom Keogh
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