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02-15-2017 09:57 AM
@Witchy Woman wrote:
Yes, another excellent movie.
I LOVE Lana in almost anything. She is hypnotic on the screen. Know little of her real life, but on screen, she is another "force of nature" woman!
Lana is worth reading about, she and her daughter Cheryl Crane went thru a murder trial of one of Lana's lovers. Very interesting , to say the least.
02-15-2017 11:02 AM
@sophiamarie wrote:@Jamma Can't you "recover" those movies? I have TiVo and even if I have deleted something, I can always get it back. I'll bet you can.
I have Optimum --- I don't have a clue how to retreve it.
I can try and check it out some.
Thanks
Jamma
02-15-2017 11:24 AM - edited 02-15-2017 11:59 AM
Another one of those movies that I watch every time I can catch it on t.v not to mention that John Gavin is a piece of eye candy. I've seen this more times than I can count but didn't know until recently it was a remake from the 1930's version with Claudette Colbert which I did eventually see but prefer the Lana Turner version, it had more of an impact and drama to it.
Madame X was great too and I always loved John Forsythe! Pinky is another great movie. That's why I love TCM channel too it always has some oldies but goodies on.
02-15-2017 04:15 PM
@Witchy Woman wrote:
@Mz iMac wrote:The movie Pinky is better.
Never heard of this one.
Tell us about it!
I remember Pinky. It starred Jeanne Crain (one of the most beautiful actresses of that era). She was a "mullato," which meant she looked white but had an African American parent and a white parent. She lived with her AA Grandmother. It was one of the few movies that addressed race in those days. I think they all received Oscars for their portrayals.
From Wikipedia:
Pinky Johnson (Jeanne Crain) returns to the South to visit Dicey (Ethel Waters), the illiterate black laundress grandmother who raised her. Pinky confesses to Dicey that she passed for white while studying to be a nurse in the North. She had also fallen in love with white Dr. Thomas Adams (William Lundigan), who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Pinky is harassed by racist local law enforcement while attempting to reclaim money owed to her grandmother. Later two white men try to sexually assault her. Dr. Canady (Kenny Washington), a black physician, asks Pinky to train black students who want to become nurses, but Pinky tells him she plans to return North.
Dicey asks her to stay temporarily to care for her ailing, elderly white friend and neighbor, Miss Em (Ethel Barrymore). Pinky has always disliked Miss Em and lumps her in with the other bigots in the area. Pinky relents and agrees to tend Miss Em after learning that she personally cared for Dicey when she had pneumonia. Pinky nurses the strong-willed Miss Em, but does not hide her resentment. As they spend time together, however, she grows to like and respect her patient.
Miss Em bequeaths Pinky her stately house and property when she dies, but greedy relative Melba Wooley (Evelyn Varden) challenges the will. Everyone advises Pinky that she has no chance of winning, but something she herself does not fully comprehend makes her go on. Pinky begs retiring Judge Walker (Basil Ruysdael), an old friend of Miss Em's, to defend her in court. With great reluctance, he agrees to take the case. Pinky washes clothes by hand when her grandmother is sick in order to pay court expenses. At the trial, despite hostile white spectators and the non-appearance of the only defense witness, presiding Judge Shoreham unexpectedly rules in Pinky's favor. When Pinky thanks her attorney, he coldly informs her that justice was served, but not the interests of the community in his opinion.
Tom, who has tracked Pinky down, wants her to sell the inherited property, resume her masquerade as a white woman, marry him and leave the South, but she refuses, firmly believing that Miss Em intended her to use the house and property for some purpose. As a result, they part. In the end, Pinky establishes "Miss Em's Clinic and Nursery School" for blacks.
02-15-2017 04:33 PM
Thank you for this. I had not had time to look it up, but it sounds like something I would enjoy. I'm going to search it out.
I did look up Jeanne Crain and, you are right, she is dazzling. Such unusual beauties from that era! Not all cookie-cutter, but with their own unique looks.
Every time I discover a new "star" I wonder how they could have been so famous, then dropped off the map. Guess that's just how it goes, but such a shame.
02-15-2017 05:52 PM
@corita wrote:Imitation of Life - what a great story!! Saw it again today...can't get thru it without the tissue box next to me!! One of those stories you love to hate. Feel so sad for Annie...
I loved this movie and have seen it many times.
02-16-2017 02:33 PM
I've always suspected that the reason of Miss Em resentment towards Pinky was because she was actually her grandmother.
"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."
02-17-2017 08:15 PM - edited 02-17-2017 08:17 PM
One of my favorite movies. I have watched several times over the years. I love the version that came out in 1959. I did not even know that there was a 30"s version until I purchased the DVD several years ago and both versions are on the DVD.
I was raised primarily by my grandmother so I have a love of older movies.
02-17-2017 10:22 PM
@Sweet_Serenity wrote:
Binge watching TCM this month. Imitation of Life was on today. Did you know Lana's wardrobe cost one million plus!?! Lana always looked much older for her years. Excess lifestyle and such. So many wonderful classics, never enough time to watch. Love the back story just as much if not more than the movies themselves. Long live glamour of old Hollywood. Feb 3 to March 3 celebrating Oscar.
Her eyebrows were very aging. She had them drawn on in a completely unnatural arch. I couldn't stop looking at them as I watched the movie a few days ago. And I was mesmerized by her clothes and jewelry - best part of the movie!!!!
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