Movielogr
Imitation of Life (1934)
Directed by John M. Stahl
Overview
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.
Length 111 minutes
Actors
Claudette Colbert | Warren William | Rochelle Hudson | Ned Sparks | Louise Beavers | Fredi Washington | Juanita Quigley | Alan Hale | Henry Armetta | Wyndham Standing | Monya Andre | Alice Ardell | William Austin | Dorothy Black | Edna Bowdoin | Tyler Brooke | Daisy Bufford | Joyce Compton | William B. Davidson | Sayre Dearing | Norma Drew | Jean Fenwick | Noel Francis | Paullyn Garner | Dick Gordon | Jesse Graves | Reverend Gregg | Sebie Hendricks | G.P. Huntley | Stuart Johnston | Marcia Mae Jones | Tiny Jones | Marilyn Knowlden | Henry Kolker | Lenita Lane | Curry Lee | Bessie Lyle | Hattie McDaniel | Claire McDowell | Harold Miller | Julius Molnar | Bert Moorhouse | Edmund Mortimer | David Newell | Barry Norton | Edgar Norton | Dennis O'Keefe | Franklin Pangborn | Paul Porcasi | Hayes Robinson | Ronald R. Rondell | Gay Seabrook | Teru Shimada | Larry Steers | Madame Sul-Te-Wan | Ethel Sykes | Libby Taylor | Alma Tell | Fred 'Snowflake' Toones | Martin Turner | Walter Walker | Bruce Warren | Hazel Washington | Clarence Wilson | Jane Withers