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