wayward daughter. After Lana Turner's success in Peyton Place (1957), which pointed to a new career for her as the star of big-screen soap operas, she was Universal's only choice for the female lead. Natalie Wood would have been 75 today. As he did throughout his career, Quinn rarely hesitated to take work whereever he found it, which resulted in dozens of potboilers like Seven Cities of Gold (1955) but also a few cult favorites like Budd Boetticher's The Magnificent Matador (1955). Imitation of Life is the second film adaptation of Fannie Hurst 's 1933 novel of the same name; the first, directed by John M. Stahl, was released in 1934. Sarah Jane is furious, exclaiming, "I'm somebody else, I'm white." "Sarah Jane is your child?" It also reshaped her image to reflect the public's perception of her as a glamorous sex symbol who was a victim of her own success. When Sarah Jane runs from Annie, her distressed mother turns to Lora and asks, "How do you explain to your child that she was born to be hurt?" Even though she was currently the subject of a major scandal after daughter Cheryl Crane killed Turner's lover, mobster Johnny Stompanato, Hunter insisted on offering her the role. For a brief, quicksilver period of the early '60s, Sandra Dee was the quintessential sweet, perky, All-American girl, and films such as Gidget and Tammy Tell Me True only reinforced the image that young audiences identified with on the screen. Those issues also brought Hurst an impressive amount of fan mail thanking her for her depiction of the African-American characters. The following year came was a Best Actor nomination for George Cukor's Wild Is the Wind (1957). For the next ten years, Lora stars in one hit David Edwards play after another. In Missing (1982), directed by the uncompromising Costa-Gavras, Lemmon played a patriotic father searching for his kidnapped son in Latin America. She was 60. Most of Donahue's later films were direct-to-video efforts like Nudity Required and Omega Cop but trash aesthete John Waters, a huge fan, used him for Cry-Baby (1990). daughter in the 1950s. The author combines vast research, extensive interviews degree of emotion that virtually dissolved the audience watching the film with The Apartment (1960) focused on a working stiff who lends his home to his supervisors for their extramarital affairs. Was considered to play the role of the young daughter of Lana Turner in the classic melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk. The plot formula would not have stood up in today's era of integration when a Negro who owned half a successful corporation could buy her own home in any area that pleased her." Famous Quotes from IMITATION OF LIFE It was a trip to Italy that brought Quinn one of his most acclaimed roles: a simple-minded circus strongman in Federico Fellini's La Strada (1954). Director Douglas Sirk suggested changing the leading lady from a businesswoman to an actress. Cinematography: Russell Metty Lora Meredith. played her servant and dearest friend, and Sandra Dee Quinn was a pope in The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), an Islamic leader in The Message (1976), a thinly disguised Aristotle Onassis in The Greek Tycoon (1978) and an assortment of gangsters, con men, military leaders and what have you. Compiled by Frank Miller & Jeff Stafford, In April of 1958, Lana Turner's teenage daughter Cheryl Crane stabbed Lana's mobster lover, Johnny Stompanato to death. Times. (The idea for the book was born when Hurst traveled with black author Zora Neale Hurston and encountered racism, although the story was not remotely based on either of their lives.) It was Wright in fact who suggested the possibility of acting to Quinn and even paid for an operation to cure a speech impediment. According to Daily Variety, Universal encountered some resistance to the promotion of the film and tailored its advertising campaign for the South, where, a studio representative said, "white southerners avoid films that are advertised as dealing with the race problem." -- Moore's deathbed confession. "My camera could easily have a love affair with you." "Tell her I know I was selfish -- and if I loved her too much, I'm sorry -- but I didn't mean to cause her any trouble. Imitation Of Life (1959) -- (Movie Clip) A Falling Star! Quinn married his third wife in 1997; they had one son. As he did throughout his career, Quinn rarely hesitated to take work whereever he found it, which resulted in dozens of potboilers like Seven Cities of Gold (1955) but also a few cult favorites like Budd Boetticher's The Magnificent Matador (1955). In It Should Happen to You, Holliday plays a struggling actress who soon wins fast fame as the product of promotion. Imitation of Life became Universal's top-grossing film to that time, and Turner's most successful film ever. The sometimes cynical comic sense of director Billy Wilder provided Lemmon with the perfect complement. -- Sandra Dee, as Susie. -- Karin Dicker, as the young Sarah Jane Johnson, beginning to question her position as an African-American. In 1965, his relationship with an Italian costumer created a minor scandal when it was revealed that the couple had two children. "I'm sorry, Mama. She had been in 52 films and a star since she was 7. Together they made seven films, but it was their first, Some Like It Hot (1959), that captured the sheer comic genius of their collaborations together. At the age of 11 he won a sculpture award and shortly after began studying architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright. Ads for the film showed Sandra Dee saying "You've given me everything a mother could but the thing I wanted mostyour love!" By Lang Thompson, - She was born Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck on April 23, -- Gavin, as Steve, meeting Turner after she's become a star. The other, St. Louis Blues (1958), actually gave her a character name. During this period she was also managing and programming Berkeley Cinema Guild Theatres (one of the country's earliest repertoire cinemas despite being basically small rooms above a laundry), and was briefly married to avant-garde filmmaker James Broughton. Back home, Annie tells Lora, who has just returned from Europe, that she will no longer interfere in her daughter's life, adding that she does hope to help her wayward daughter somehow. TCM REMEMBERS CARROLL O'CONNOR 1924-2001 Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Richard H. Riedel He continued the same mix of classics and best-forgotten quickies throughout the 1960s and '70s. Born to be Hurt is the first in-depth account of Whether playing a cross-dressing jazz bassist or a bickering roommate, Lemmon has kept his fans in stitches for fifty years. Writer Nolbert Brown Jr. See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist Photos Add photo More like this 7.5 Imitation of Life Watch options 7.8 Imitation of Life The rest of his career might be summed up by the year 1991 when he gathered critical acclaim for his appearance in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, was nominated for a Razzie as Worst Actor in Mobsters, co-starred with Bo Derek in Ghosts Can't Do It, worked beside John Candy and Macaulay Culkin in Chris Columbus' Only the Lonely and made a film so obscure it appears to have never appeared on video. every film fan. She then returned to the set and completed the scene perfectly. At the same time, her African-American housekeeper finds herself rejected by her light-skinned daughter who wants to pass for white. Her sons, Chris and Paul Weitz, are film producers/directors best known for the American Pie films and About a Boy (2002). Helping boost the success of Imitation of Life was the studio's unprecedented decision to release it simultaneously to both white and black theatres in the South. Several collections of her work are available, most with mildly risque titles like I Lost It at the Movies, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Going Steady. The couple were married on a train of rebel soldiers. His romantic visions of the West are soon changed by the hard-living, hard-drinking reality. by Frank Miller, Made for $2 million, Imitation of Life grossed $6.4 million during its Hunter insisted on maintaining a lavish production, despite a tight budget. This picture, Douglas Sirk's last feature, was a remake of the 1934 Universal film of the same title directed by John M. Stahl and starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40). Dee resurfaced in 1991, when she gave an interview with People magazine about her personal demons: Als Faktoren ihres globalen Erfolgs werden unter anderem diskursive Offenheit und Adaptionsfhigkeit genannt: Nicht-christliche Traditionen werden, beispielsweise in vielen Regionen Asiens, als Ressourcen behandelt, die in der christlichen Perspektive eine . 1. Not many actors can boast that they've inspired a Bob Dylan song but Anthony Quinn - who passed away June 3rd at the age of 86 - was one of the select few. Illicit love and the corruption of big business might not seem to be the stuff of hit comedies, but Wilder and Lemmon found humor in the most unlikeliest of places. In 1988, O'Connor took the role of a Southern sheriff in a TV series based on the movie In the Heat of the Night and found himself in another hit, this one lasting until 1995. But that's just one of many incidents in a life that can only be described as colorful. It had no cast members from the earlier series and only lasted six episodes.) As Steve looks on, the three women join hands in a gesture of comfort and love. Landmarks, Breakthroughs and Milestones in Black Film History, a five-week series, will run through March 14 at Film Forum 2, 209 West Houston Street, Manhattan. Authorities classified her death as an accident, concluding the 43-year-old star of "West Side Story," who. Director Douglas Sirk worked gently with his actors. She was abandoned by her father by age five, and her mother, Mary Douvan, lied about Sandra's age so that she could put her in school and get a job. That's when she started to develop a serious interest in movies. Although the killing was ruled justifiable homicide because Cheryl was defending her mother, the scandal rocked Hollywood, and many people thought Lana's film career was over. "I'm going up and up and up, and nobody's going to pull me down!" With her fetching blonde curls and pretty face, Dee found herself moving up quickly on the modeling ladder. Thanks to its provocative themes, the novel was a huge success. At the mortuary,. A modern source reported that Sirk had read the novel before directing this film, but had not seen the 1934 film. For Lana Turner, that hit a little too close to home, and she hesitated. Susanna "Susan" Kohner is an American retired actress who worked in film and television. Viva Zapata! everything: mother love, musical numbers, backstage intrigue, race relations, saucy, and incisive, this is irresistible reading for Producer: Ross Hunter Director Douglas Sirk Writers Eleanore Griffin Allan Scott Fannie Hurst Stars Lana Turner John Gavin Sandra Dee See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video rent/buy from $3.99 More watch options Between theatrical gigs, he played piano accompaniment to silent films shown at the Knickerbocker Music Hall in New York. Enter Ross Hunter, producer of lavish women's pictures for Universal, who had breathed new life into the careers of aging stars like Jane Wyman and Barbara Stanwyck. In addition to the usual writer's assortment of jobs (seamstress, cook, retail clerk) she started writing about film in 1953; her first review was of Charlie Chaplin's Limelight which she disliked. He had just completed the title role in Avenging Angelo (with Sylvester Stallone) at the time of his death. Sirk is able to make such a devastatingly embittered and pessimistic movie." Entertaining, The other notorious controversy occured in 1971 with her essay "Raising Kane" which was intended to show that screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz deserved as much if not more credit for Citizen Kane (1941) than Orson Welles. The series lasted until 1979 and brought O'Connor four Emmys, even leading to a four-year spinoff Archie Bunker's Place starring O'Connor. It's a film that will benefit from word-of-mouth, particularly of lipsticked Quinn also appeared on stage in 1936 playing opposite Mae West. A August 21, 1958 Hollywood Reporter article states that thirty members of the Donn Arden Revue appeared in the musical number shot at the Moulin Rouge nightclub. If a novelist had invented a character like Quinn, she would be accused of unbelievable invention. Yet she would prove her versatility as a performer the following year - 1959, when she scored in the three biggest films of the year:A Summer Place, a brooding melodrama with fellow teen-heartthrob, Troy Donohue; Imitation of Life, a glossy, Ross Hunter sudser; and of course Gidget, the archetypical, sand and surf movie. The opening and closing cast credits vary in order. Casting him opposite Lana Turner seemed a logical step in his development, mirroring Hudson's casting opposite Jane Wyman in Sirk's Magnificent Obsession (1954). For Lana Turner, that hit a little too close to home, and she hesitated. These Natalie Wood massive butt photos are positive to depart you mesmerized and awestruck. -- Lana Turner, as Lora Meredith, expressing surprise that the light-skinned little girl is the daughter of African-American Juanita Moore, as Annie Johnson. Director and comic star went on to make five more films: Irma la Douce (1963), The Fortune Cookie (1966), Avanti! He lives in Dallas, Texas. Lora and Susie gently lead her into the hearse, where they reassure her that she did not cause her mother's death. . Cinematography: Russell Metty
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