Fredi Washington, who played Peola could have passed for white but throughout her life , she refused to pass. She was a founder of the Negro Actors Guild. She died at 90 years of age
While Fredricka "Fredi" Washington was a genuine light skinned African American, Susan Kohner who played "Sarah Jane" in the remake was fully Caucasian
There have been many speculations as to how her last name is pronounced. It is said to be pronounced KOH-ner as it looks, some say KAH-ner. Yet others say KEr ner@@jeffereyhopkins750
I once visited Louise Beavers grave in an East L.A. cemetery. At the time of her death she was buried in the back of the cemetery in the northwest corner. I forgot the name of the cemetery. It's the oldest or one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles. Jesse Belvin is also buried here along with many historical figures who impacted Los Angeles long ago.
The 1934 movie is superior in acting and a few key scenes, but Sirk's version still rings more powerful to me overall. That ending! Jesus, what an ending.
I agree, that’s my favorite version. Susan Kohner who plays the girl as an adult is awesome and just tears your heart out when she cries when her mother dies. That is my favorite version I’ve never seen the others and I know there are two others
@@FungusMossGnosis you moron! I emphasized distinction because that's the only thing that was depicted in this so called powerful movie, so therefore I would not recommend any others with the same message. Instead I'll lead you to something more meaningful that simply shows the injustices inflicted upon African Americans throughout history!
Fun fact: the movie Imitation of Life inspired the top 10 hit "I'm Living in Shame" by Diana Ross and The Supremes in 1969. The song tells the story of a young black woman who disowns her mother, and while the lyrics do not specifically bring up why, it's definitely the same story. In the song, there's a lyric "I lied and said Mama died on a weekend trip to Spain", and another line "married a guy, was living high, I didn't want him to know her, had a grandson 2 years old that I never even showed her."
No, it dealt only with white supremacy. Colorism is most prevalent in black and brown communities which was not depicted in this film. She denied her race for white privilege!
There's a great amount of colorism and classism that Black people still deal with, as well as culturalism. These are all separate problems that would exist even if everyone was white, but overlap with racism quite a bit, and make racism worse.
Fannie Hurst, the woman who wrote the novel "Imitation of Life", was a friend of Zora Neale Hurston. She and Zora were taking a trip to Canada when the story idea came to her. In the book Peola eventually severs all ties with her mother and marries a white man, then moves to Bolivia so she can pass as white. After that Delilah dies.
I truly could not imagine disowning my own mother in that way. Maybe if I lived through that time, in those situations, with that kind of mistreatment, maybe I would feel somewhat different enough to wish to 'Pass' in some situations. As a black woman, definitely not light enough to pass for white in those time's standards, if I could... I just couldn't do it. Honestly, if I was in her place, a black woman so pale she could pass for white... I just simply cannot see myself disowning my own family, my own mother, or even my own culture for the sake of a bit of an easier life. Again I say it could not have been easy, as black people were despised, and killed, and so mistreated, but I just don't believe I could ever.
@Miya Hockenhull: Me neither. Pecola really had NO GOOD reasons to despise her mother. As for the, racial ethnicity that i come from, i could NEVER, would NEVER, EVER disown THAT.
You must understand, passing for white when being black is by far so much worse than being black. It means you're pretending not to be what you are, and that inevitably will anger the people whom are racist to you, thinking you can get close to them and live like them. Its a terrible thing, but don't think this was the entirety of society back then, racism was a needle in a sizable haystack, but through media life in the past made racism into the haystack, and good moments into a needle. Never be biased of an era for what you believe is true, your thoughts are the most convincing matter to believe, don't let them. This goes exactly for racism, racism is based on rumor. If white people truly got to know black people, there would be absolutely no issues that they could name beside them perhaps not holding to the most mature standard of living, and being a little let loose and calmer with more work. What is there to be angry about in that? I punched a lady in 1961 over a riot, she said something about why she thought the black race to be worth rioting over and I won't repeat it, her reasoning is grotesque shock value because her reasoning is just not wanting to be anywhere near them. She doesn't know them nor will she hope to ever.
@@tequilashots875 She was not biracial. Both of her parents were mixed. Like Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz. Zoe Kravits herself is not biracial. Because both of her parents would be considered of the same race...
Why does a movie like this horrify people?......Never saw this version, but I did see the 1959 movie. It's a very moving, heartfelt portrayal of real life. Especially in the 50's. It's a very sad tale that unfortunately was not far fetched from reality. I'd say this is a must see for people of all races and ages
Fredi Washington went to Julia Richman High School in New York where she made friends with Elisabeth Welch, who was also bi racial. Was Julia Richman High School a racailly mixed school or a school for African Americans? Elisabeth, a beautiful & glamorous singer, made London her home in 1933 & had a fabulous stage & screen career in Britain until she passed in 2003 at the age of 99. In the 1930s she co starred with Paul Robeson in two British movies after Fredi had co starred with Mr Robeson in The Emperor Jones movie in USA in 1933. Elisabeth did not meet Fredi again until 1980 when she returned to New York to appear in the revue Black Broadway & Fredi showed up in her dressing room after a performance. Elisabeth was thrilled to see Fredi again after such a long time. For more information see Stephen Bourne's excellent biography Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights & Sweet Music (Scarecrow Press, 2005).
I saw the second coming of the movie as a child. I may watch again to see how my perspective has changed especially in lieu of current events in the US and race relations in the political arena.
@ 1:56 , IMO, John Stall was a full blown visionary, a genius, and a brave man to bring this story to film, publicly and unapologetically. 🎯🏆👏🏾. *Side note: @ 2:44 , it is simply SCARY to me, how much Kate McKinnon looks like Freddie Washington, 2:09. -10/2022
Andrew Forte 36 LIKES out of almost 50,000 views is extremely and laughably low! LOL! Beautiful is in the eye of the beholder, she may have been a "white passing" light skin female with a little bit of black ancestry but she wasn't exotic! Only men in America view light skin mixed BW who look like white women as socalled "exotic" Outside of America, a light skin, racially ambiguous white passing woman with green eyes and pale white skin are not called exotic, in other countries, theyre looked at as being Half caste or Coloured. If u travel outside of the coutry, dark skin east Indian, Tribal/Bush Women, amazon tribal Females, pacific islander females, dark skin Africa females and certain types of asian women are looked at exotic by Europeans, and the rest of the world. Only Black Americans (FOR THE MOST PART) especially black men are the ones that view light skin, racially ambiguous women (who look like white women ) as exotic bc they view white women as beautiful and a status symbol.
@@vinessawess4401 You know the word exotic simply means different we all have a preference like in Japan the men fancy white women who are exotic or different from theirs.
What's so powerful about it? The subservient role of the black woman or the robbery commited by the white woman? You people are truly sick in the head if you believe that any movie that promotes white supremacy is great or powerful. What type of people find entertainment in a movie that does nothing more than perpetuates racism and the degradation of other human beings. Everyone knows about the history of black and white relations simply from the experiences of white privilege and black dehumanization and therefore it does not have to be captured on film to spread any type of awareness!
@@andrewforte3852 they played the maid like a mamie slave that doesnt want to be set free at a time where my people were treated like dirt without remorse. "Plz missus, use my recipe and have me slave at ur home and your beautiful business u got thru my hardwork and special secret recipe. Izz donts wonts to be free!! I dont wonts dem pennies u offered. I just wants to serve ya AND sleep in the basement while u Sleep in luxury "". Chile.......
@@ertfgghhhh To each their own I liked both equally, each one is different due to times, but both have heartfelt impact on the audience, that's just my personal opinion.
I wish SOMEONE would talk about the modern day talk show like Maury and steve.and Jerry how a lot of young people go on and act extremely wild and that image has done more harm than good
The Lana Turner and Juanita Moore version (made 25 years later in 1959) is better and easier to watch. Lana and Juanita played the roles more as equals and the word "mammy" was not used. Juanita Moore was excellent. I don't care for this version except I liked seeing Fredi Washington who never got her due in Hollywood as was the plight of so many black actors in that era.
They were far from equals. If you live and work for someone unable to own your own place and live freely, would you see that ad equal to someone who had all those things
I liked both versions because each has something to offer in its own right. The 1934 version offers a relationship of the two women that is more respectful to each other especially with her having shares in the pancake company. It offered an African American actress culturally conflicted Peola and gave more reason for her torment. The 1959 was heavy on the drama. It felt very much like employer/employee relationship rather than two women struggling together with common interest and goals. Lana Turner and Juanita Moore played their roles to perfection. I did not care for the casting of Sarah Jane and she was more mean than conflicted. I never saw the love she was suppose to have for her mother.
That's the problem w the Turner & Moore version. It abandons the source material & the reality of the subject matter. Read the novel, this just wasn't a tear jerker. There was a point beyond giving the white ppl the sads. The novel was all about comparing parenting styles in showing who the women really were not just what they wanted to projected. For the white woman-niceness was a mask even though she is a good person in general, for the black woman her mask is -infantilization learned through trauma. For god sakes, only 1939 version hints to how she got a white daughter in the first place. The Hays code is the reason there isn't always a more obvious difference. Also, Nothing says the Turner/Moore version failed to get the point more than turning down over 2 dozen light skinned actresses to give a white one the part.
@@nkwari That's the reason why I like this version better, because they used a real black woman, in pinky, they used a white woman, in I passed for white, they used a white woman, this is the only version with a real actual black woman to play a black woman.
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It's unfortunate that the extreme sexism in Gone with the Wind is always overlooked. Scarlett's husband raped her and the next morning she looked happier than at any other point in her marriage..... just ONE example.
@@anarcho-communist11 it's a shame that people forget that in 50 yrs some will find something wrong with movies made today..sure people find issues with gone with the wind but they forget that was the norm back then..right or wrong...history has tried to correct for them..movies are just what they should represent..entertainment...very few are biographies..I can find 100 things wrong with Star Trek..
Me too. The later version is way over acted ESPECIALLY Lana Turner's reaction to Annie's death. Plus this version has an epilogue after the big funeral that states that Fredi's character, Peola (sp) finally got her life together and is happy at last. whereas the 1959 remake ends abruptly.
@@chrismulwee4911 I have never seen the older version, but just by looking at the clips in this video I can see you are right. The 1959 version was too much over the top over acted. I do want to see this version...
It wasn't very kind of her to offer her 20%. It should have been 50%. It was her recipe. African Americans had to know there was a race problem, during this period when they rode in segregated cars on the railroad. One thing that always helps is money. Madam C. J. Walker [ recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records], built a mansion on the Hudson in New York. Had Delila used her wealth to build a mansion and buy anything she wanted; I don't think her daughter would have felt the need to pass for "white". However, Delila chose to live in Miss Bea's basement. She didn't even want the money, even though she had a daughter to support She told Miss Bea she could have the money as a present. For lack of a better adjective, that was stupid.
Fredi Washington, with her talent and beauty, would have been a huge star in Latin America. It is a pity that the racial policies of the United States at that time were so discriminatory.
I remember seeing it as a child the colored version one and then the black-and-white to my opinion still the same. Not only did she use the black woman in every way she could and then people were angry at the little girl she was only acting out the way she saw things coming out. Her mother was taken in as a child she watch the little white girl grow up with nothing but the best after the black lady worked her tail off to help the white woman it was only natural that her daughter would grow up wishing not to be black but human. She should’ve never left a black lady as a mate, one, 2 instead of the black lady buying a house the white lady kept her back. My children both come from a or should I just say their father is white, there are reasons but the world is very different today, you cannot go backwards only forward, and yes I do wish that I could have married into my own race but I made sure that my children grew up just being themselves and not putting a color to their skin. I am from Philadelphia so I raise them on the culture of where I came from even though I live in Eugene Oregon. I still fly to help bring unity among the black people in my community. Many of them come here for college and some just movie because of family, over the years I watch different cultures of black people come in and out of this town and listen to many of their opinions but the bottom line is still the same our black man I married white women and vice a versa forgetting about the children that are Born from these marriages. Oregon is a predominately white state. My kids turned out OK because God one and number two I’ve always been black and proud. I wish this movie can be done again and there is no better, In any of the first or second the black woman still got the bad end of the stick. God over everything. I love watching old movies.
A lot of people aren’t happy with themselves. Don’t stereotype and say it’s only black people. Some white people get fake butts, lips, tans and hair as well. Please don’t put that all on black people.
I wonder if she didn’t pass because her family could not. She could have easily moved away and passed as Portuguese like many others did at time. As Fredi got older she certainly could not pass.
No, if you read any of Fredi's interviews, she identified as a black woman, proud of her race and could never bring herself to live a lie.When she retired from acting she became an activist for race issues..
Her Sister Isabel Washington could have passed too and Isabel's husband at the time Adam Clayton Powell Jr could have too, why did you want them to pass? So many did, but that is living a lie
Remember the black lady in It's A Wonderful Life? Ever watched The Little Colonel with Shirley Temple?-- lots of politically incorrect language in that movie. Native Americans had similar racial discrimination in Oklahoma in the 1950's+.
@@astrolabe1976 yeah, I know. For some reason I was remembering this movie. It is such an accurate representation of the real that went over my head when I first saw it. Now I'm like "it's so obvious!"
I hope you're kidding, but maybe you didn't get it. The 1959 version was intentionally made by Douglas Sirk to look phony, from the dialog right down to the costumes and furniture. Imitation.
To bad a lot of these great movies used to be free on television, I saw a lot of classic movies on television now they want to to buy them or rent them, money, money, money, sickening
Typical of the day. The black woman wasn't allowed, in this movie, to make money on her own recipe and rise above being a maid. So wrong in so many ways.
She's black... she comes from a predominately black family, her sister Isabel Washington, was married to Adam clayton Powell Jr, an icon in the black American community, a man who also could pass as white... I don't know if you know this or not but we in the black American community, come in many different ways, we are not all pure blood west central Africans... we have admixture bloodline. some of us look white.
If you invented the product yourself and someone only wanted to give you 20% profit of your own product, that's ridiculous no matter what year it is...
Hey Caucasian lady. You were the same in need of work. You robbed and treated the black lady with greed and disrespect...and her daughter situation was disheartening enough. The more you know. Culture race torture and greedy people
It was the black womans recipe to begin with! It was ALL her hard work that originated everything which is why that woman gave her a small percentage. What you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense. SMH
Unfortunately the black woman would not have had the opportunity to start her business in such racist times. She should have received a large percentage as it was her recipe and the white woman a small percentage!
She didn't want to. She just wanted to stay with the white woman instead of being sent away with money enough to buy her own big house and her own new car.
Fredi Washington, who played Peola could have passed for white but throughout her life , she refused to pass. She was a founder of the Negro Actors Guild. She died at 90 years of age
While Fredricka "Fredi" Washington was a genuine light skinned African American, Susan Kohner who played "Sarah Jane" in the remake was fully Caucasian
@@chrismulwee4911 no she was Hispanic and Jewish so she was not fully white besides her performance was outstanding.
There have been many speculations as to how her last name is pronounced. It is said to be pronounced KOH-ner as it looks, some say KAH-ner. Yet others say KEr ner@@jeffereyhopkins750
Chris Mulwee she was Mexican nígga , fùck you talkin bout ???
@@GREALER Mexicans were considered white back then.
I once visited Louise Beavers grave in an East L.A. cemetery. At the time of her death she was buried in the back of the cemetery in the northwest corner. I forgot the name of the cemetery. It's the oldest or one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles. Jesse Belvin is also buried here along with many historical figures who impacted Los Angeles long ago.
I saw the 1959 version of this movie. Whether it's the original or the 1959 one, the movie is powerful.
What's so powerful about it? The clear distinction between how blacks and whites are treated? Not so powerful to me!
The 1934 movie is superior in acting and a few key scenes, but Sirk's version still rings more powerful to me overall. That ending! Jesus, what an ending.
@@divinenergy3158 Do you have anything behind this glibness, any media to recommend that showed this distinction better in those times?
I agree, that’s my favorite version. Susan Kohner who plays the girl as an adult is awesome and just tears your heart out when she cries when her mother dies. That is my favorite version I’ve never seen the others and I know there are two others
@@FungusMossGnosis you moron! I emphasized distinction because that's the only thing that was depicted in this so called powerful movie, so therefore I would not recommend any others with the same message. Instead I'll lead you to something more meaningful that simply shows the injustices inflicted upon African Americans throughout history!
Fun fact: the movie Imitation of Life inspired the top 10 hit "I'm Living in Shame" by Diana Ross and The Supremes in 1969. The song tells the story of a young black woman who disowns her mother, and while the lyrics do not specifically bring up why, it's definitely the same story. In the song, there's a lyric "I lied and said Mama died on a weekend trip to Spain", and another line "married a guy, was living high, I didn't want him to know her, had a grandson 2 years old that I never even showed her."
Wow I need to see this version asap I love the 1959 version but this one is a must see
This movie deals with so many issues colorism class privilege
No, it dealt only with white supremacy. Colorism is most prevalent in black and brown communities which was not depicted in this film. She denied her race for white privilege!
There's a great amount of colorism and classism that Black people still deal with, as well as culturalism. These are all separate problems that would exist even if everyone was white, but overlap with racism quite a bit, and make racism worse.
@@divinenergy3158Colorism is a product of white supremacy. The character dealt with both
Great video! The viewpoint pierces anybody' soul. 👏👏👏👏👏
I LOOOOOVE this movie and every cast member played their roles SPECTACULARLY!!!!!
Saw this last night on Turner Classic movies. Blew me away.
Why does this guy sound like Oprah Winfrey???
Lol! I thought it was Oprah at first. Got the shock of my life when I saw this man!
He does
I thought he was maybe trans because he does sound just like a woman. I saw another video it was worse
Yesssss
Lol
Great movie, maybe the first about racism and prejudice. I have seen it many times. Congrats for this video!
Saw this movie 🎬 when I was a child. Powerful, heartbreaking and reflection of Race in this country 😢
Fannie Hurst, the woman who wrote the novel "Imitation of Life", was a friend of Zora Neale Hurston. She and Zora were taking a trip to Canada when the story idea came to her. In the book Peola eventually severs all ties with her mother and marries a white man, then moves to Bolivia so she can pass as white. After that Delilah dies.
That scene at her mother's funeral never fails to choke me up.
Louise Beavers was only a year older than Fredi Washington.
really ???
I truly could not imagine disowning my own mother in that way. Maybe if I lived through that time, in those situations, with that kind of mistreatment, maybe I would feel somewhat different enough to wish to 'Pass' in some situations. As a black woman, definitely not light enough to pass for white in those time's standards, if I could... I just couldn't do it. Honestly, if I was in her place, a black woman so pale she could pass for white... I just simply cannot see myself disowning my own family, my own mother, or even my own culture for the sake of a bit of an easier life. Again I say it could not have been easy, as black people were despised, and killed, and so mistreated, but I just don't believe I could ever.
@Miya Hockenhull: Me neither. Pecola really had NO GOOD reasons to despise her mother. As for the, racial ethnicity that i come from, i could NEVER, would NEVER, EVER disown THAT.
You must understand, passing for white when being black is by far so much worse than being black. It means you're pretending not to be what you are, and that inevitably will anger the people whom are racist to you, thinking you can get close to them and live like them. Its a terrible thing, but don't think this was the entirety of society back then, racism was a needle in a sizable haystack, but through media life in the past made racism into the haystack, and good moments into a needle. Never be biased of an era for what you believe is true, your thoughts are the most convincing matter to believe, don't let them. This goes exactly for racism, racism is based on rumor. If white people truly got to know black people, there would be absolutely no issues that they could name beside them perhaps not holding to the most mature standard of living, and being a little let loose and calmer with more work. What is there to be angry about in that? I punched a lady in 1961 over a riot, she said something about why she thought the black race to be worth rioting over and I won't repeat it, her reasoning is grotesque shock value because her reasoning is just not wanting to be anywhere near them. She doesn't know them nor will she hope to ever.
And me also.
I also saw the 1959 version. It was the first movie to make me cry.
I thought the voice in the begin (Donald Bogle) was Oprah Winfrey.
Me too!
Wow.she really could have passed for white..but good she was true to who she was..
Not to me. I’m black & could tell she was just light skinned because of her face & voice. There are creoles who look like her.
@@Coco_Loco95 she could have passed as white easily, look at her proportions/hair/eyes/skin, she resembles a black part but not as much as white
She’s biracial. I’m surprised they found someone in that time to play the role in that day and age.
@@tequilashots875 She was not biracial. Both of her parents were mixed. Like Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz. Zoe Kravits herself is not biracial. Because both of her parents would be considered of the same race...
@@lhbfiness1251 Biracial plus biracial equals biracial. Have a great day.
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Why does a movie like this horrify people?......Never saw this version, but I did see the 1959 movie. It's a very moving, heartfelt portrayal of real life. Especially in the 50's. It's a very sad tale that unfortunately was not far fetched from reality. I'd say this is a must see for people of all races and ages
Very interesting
I wish I can watch this can’t find it anywhere but one day I will
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Where can i see the whole ,movie? I only see trailers here??
Search for the movie writing imitation of life 1934 and .ru
How come you guys have privated your Disney Channel videos? I would really like to see more of them if you guys have any
We signed an agreement with Disney that says we can't share their videos anymore. Sorry!
Sorry. We don't own them and Disney Channel doesn't like sharing.
God created us all and God is going to have the last word 🙏
Fredi Washington went to Julia Richman High School in New York where she made friends with Elisabeth Welch, who was also bi racial. Was Julia Richman High School a racailly mixed school or a school for African Americans? Elisabeth, a beautiful & glamorous singer, made London her home in 1933 & had a fabulous stage & screen career in Britain until she passed in 2003 at the age of 99. In the 1930s she co starred with Paul Robeson in two British movies after Fredi had co starred with Mr Robeson in The Emperor Jones movie in USA in 1933. Elisabeth did not meet Fredi again until 1980 when she returned to New York to appear in the revue Black Broadway & Fredi showed up in her dressing room after a performance. Elisabeth was thrilled to see Fredi again after such a long time. For more information see Stephen Bourne's excellent biography Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights & Sweet Music (Scarecrow Press, 2005).
I saw the second coming of the movie as a child. I may watch again to see how my perspective has changed especially in lieu of current events in the US and race relations in the political arena.
This was a great film. The remake couldn't compare
The child was horrible
@ 1:56 , IMO, John Stall was a full blown visionary, a genius, and a brave man to bring this story to film, publicly and unapologetically. 🎯🏆👏🏾. *Side note: @ 2:44 , it is simply SCARY to me, how much Kate McKinnon looks like Freddie Washington, 2:09. -10/2022
Was the name "Peola" created for expressively for the original novel? I ask because I've never met one in real life.
Lol, I’ve never met some named Coco, but Courtney Cox named her baby that
@@astrolabe1976 And, ironically, Coco, is a common nickname FOR Courtney!!
I feel like weeping
Is this movie on yt
Yes. There's a few channels with this film on it as well as other old films. I think *reelblack* has it.
Where ?
@@edwardmunster7269 reelback as in the channel. Just type the movie title in the search bar better yet 😊
@@edwardmunster7269 ua-cam.com/video/jVKAqXrhKHg/v-deo.html
I love this movie
Freddie Washington was an exotically beautiful green-eyed lightskinned black woman who could easily pass for white.
Not to me. I’m black & could tell she was just light skinned because of her face & voice. There are creoles who look like her.
'Exotic' looking and 'could pass for white' in the same sentence? Make it make sense.
@@AWordorNinety It made sense to the other 36 that gave me their approval which is fine by me.
Andrew Forte
36 LIKES out of almost 50,000 views is extremely and laughably low! LOL!
Beautiful is in the eye of the beholder, she may have been a "white passing" light skin female with a little bit of black ancestry but she wasn't exotic! Only men in America view light skin mixed BW who look like white women as socalled "exotic"
Outside of America, a light skin, racially ambiguous white passing woman with green eyes and pale white skin are not called exotic, in other countries, theyre looked at as being Half caste or Coloured.
If u travel outside of the coutry, dark skin east Indian, Tribal/Bush Women, amazon tribal Females, pacific islander females, dark skin Africa females and certain types of asian women are looked at exotic by Europeans, and the rest of the world.
Only Black Americans (FOR THE MOST PART) especially black men are the ones that view light skin, racially ambiguous women (who look like white women ) as exotic bc they view white women as beautiful and a status symbol.
@@vinessawess4401 You know the word exotic simply means different we all have a preference like in Japan the men fancy white women who are exotic or different from theirs.
Powerful
What's so powerful about it? The subservient role of the black woman or the robbery commited by the white woman? You people are truly sick in the head if you believe that any movie that promotes white supremacy is great or powerful. What type of people find entertainment in a movie that does nothing more than perpetuates racism and the degradation of other human beings. Everyone knows about the history of black and white relations simply from the experiences of white privilege and black dehumanization and therefore it does not have to be captured on film to spread any type of awareness!
At the same time there's a dark side in Imitation Of Life there's also beauty.
Freddy was pretty
I recently saw this version and was horrified.
Do tell what horrified you?
@@andrewforte3852 are u serious?
@@andrewforte3852 they played the maid like a mamie slave that doesnt want to be set free at a time where my people were treated like dirt without remorse. "Plz missus, use my recipe and have me slave at ur home and your beautiful business u got thru my hardwork and special secret recipe. Izz donts wonts to be free!! I dont wonts dem pennies u offered. I just wants to serve ya AND sleep in the basement while u
Sleep in luxury "". Chile.......
@@andrewforte3852 iktr!!! Bubble not burst. Not a spring chk.it was still shocking. Now i know why black people hated the movie
@@ertfgghhhh To each their own I liked both equally, each one is different due to times, but both have heartfelt impact on the audience, that's just my personal opinion.
IMITATION OF LIFE (1934) was stupendous; the 1959 version is good, but "glossier"
I wish SOMEONE would talk about the modern day talk show like Maury and steve.and Jerry how a lot of young people go on and act extremely wild and that image has done more harm than good
Flava in ya ear I’m hungry
@@CosmoDawn1398 Huh...
I agree
The Lana Turner and Juanita Moore version (made 25 years later in 1959) is better and easier to watch. Lana and Juanita played the roles more as equals and the word "mammy" was not used. Juanita Moore was excellent. I don't care for this version except I liked seeing Fredi Washington who never got her due in Hollywood as was the plight of so many black actors in that era.
I wish they used a black (light skinned) woman for the role of the daughter in the Lana Turner version.
They were far from equals. If you live and work for someone unable to own your own place and live freely, would you see that ad equal to someone who had all those things
I liked both versions because each has something to offer in its own right. The 1934 version offers a relationship of the two women that is more respectful to each other especially with her having shares in the pancake company. It offered an African American actress culturally conflicted Peola and gave more reason for her torment. The 1959 was heavy on the drama. It felt very much like employer/employee relationship rather than two women struggling together with common interest and goals. Lana Turner and Juanita Moore played their roles to perfection. I did not care for the casting of Sarah Jane and she was more mean than conflicted. I never saw the love she was suppose to have for her mother.
That's the problem w the Turner & Moore version. It abandons the source material & the reality of the subject matter. Read the novel, this just wasn't a tear jerker. There was a point beyond giving the white ppl the sads. The novel was all about comparing parenting styles in showing who the women really were not just what they wanted to projected. For the white woman-niceness was a mask even though she is a good person in general, for the black woman her mask is -infantilization learned through trauma. For god sakes, only 1939 version hints to how she got a white daughter in the first place. The Hays code is the reason there isn't always a more obvious difference. Also, Nothing says the Turner/Moore version failed to get the point more than turning down over 2 dozen light skinned actresses to give a white one the part.
@@nkwari That's the reason why I like this version better, because they used a real black woman, in pinky, they used a white woman, in I passed for white, they used a white woman, this is the only version with a real actual black woman to play a black woman.
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@@valentino4411 Thank you
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I have both version...& yet they want to do away with gone with the wind...I think we can learn more of what not to do from this movie...
Do you really need to analyze the degradation of blacks depicted in white movies to know what not to do? I would think by now that it's common sense!
@@divinenergy3158 I agree with you but from what I've seen there r a lot of people out there with no common sense
It's unfortunate that the extreme sexism in Gone with the Wind is always overlooked. Scarlett's husband raped her and the next morning she looked happier than at any other point in her marriage..... just ONE example.
@@anarcho-communist11 it's a shame that people forget that in 50 yrs some will find something wrong with movies made today..sure people find issues with gone with the wind but they forget that was the norm back then..right or wrong...history has tried to correct for them..movies are just what they should represent..entertainment...very few are biographies..I can find 100 things wrong with Star Trek..
I like this version better.
Me too. The later version is way over acted ESPECIALLY Lana Turner's reaction to Annie's death. Plus this version has an epilogue after the big funeral that states that Fredi's character, Peola (sp) finally got her life together and is happy at last. whereas the 1959 remake ends abruptly.
@@chrismulwee4911 I have never seen the older version, but just by looking at the clips in this video I can see you are right. The 1959 version was too much over the top over acted. I do want to see this version...
@@ElizaDolittle It's available on DVD as a 2 pack along with the inferior 1959 version. It may be available on it's own as well.
Me too.
It wasn't very kind of her to offer her 20%. It should have been 50%. It was her recipe. African Americans had to know there was a race problem, during this period when they rode in segregated cars on the railroad. One thing that always helps is money. Madam C. J. Walker [ recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records], built a mansion on the Hudson in New York. Had Delila used her wealth to build a mansion and buy anything she wanted; I don't think her daughter would have felt the need to pass for "white". However, Delila chose to live in Miss Bea's basement. She didn't even want the money, even though she had a daughter to support She told Miss Bea she could have the money as a present. For lack of a better adjective, that was stupid.
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Classic
Deep.....
Freddie Washington could get it. Jk. I loved this movie as a kid. Now an adult I see I always had good taste in movies. Lol
Who is Peola's father?
We don't really know his name, but he was said to have been white, hence Peola's appearance. Both mothers , I think, are widows.
Peola's father is implied to be a light skinned black man who could pass for white.
Chris Mulwee nah the mama said he was a light skinned black man.
I never saw this version . I like the other version better
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Me too
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Fredi Washington, with her talent and beauty, would have been a huge star in Latin America. It is a pity that the racial policies of the United States at that time were so discriminatory.
I remember seeing it as a child the colored version one and then the black-and-white to my opinion still the same. Not only did she use the black woman in every way she could and then people were angry at the little girl she was only acting out the way she saw things coming out. Her mother was taken in as a child she watch the little white girl grow up with nothing but the best after the black lady worked her tail off to help the white woman it was only natural that her daughter would grow up wishing not to be black but human. She should’ve never left a black lady as a mate, one, 2 instead of the black lady buying a house the white lady kept her back. My children both come from a or should I just say their father is white, there are reasons but the world is very different today, you cannot go backwards only forward, and yes I do wish that I could have married into my own race but I made sure that my children grew up just being themselves and not putting a color to their skin. I am from Philadelphia so I raise them on the culture of where I came from even though I live in Eugene Oregon. I still fly to help bring unity among the black people in my community. Many of them come here for college and some just movie because of family, over the years I watch different cultures of black people come in and out of this town and listen to many of their opinions but the bottom line is still the same our black man I married white women and vice a versa forgetting about the children that are Born from these marriages. Oregon is a predominately white state. My kids turned out OK because God one and number two I’ve always been black and proud. I wish this movie can be done again and there is no better, In any of the first or second the black woman still got the bad end of the stick. God over everything. I love watching old movies.
A lot of people aren’t happy with themselves. Don’t stereotype and say it’s only black people. Some white people get fake butts, lips, tans and hair as well. Please don’t put that all on black people.
I wonder if she didn’t pass because her family could not. She could have easily moved away and passed as Portuguese like many others did at time. As Fredi got older she certainly could not pass.
No, if you read any of Fredi's interviews, she identified as a black woman, proud of her race and could never bring herself to live a lie.When she retired from acting she became an activist for race issues..
Her Sister Isabel Washington could have passed too and Isabel's husband at the time Adam Clayton Powell Jr could have too, why did you want them to pass? So many did, but that is living a lie
Is this movie based on true events about Elizabeth Arden and her maid?
Remember the black lady in It's A Wonderful Life? Ever watched The Little Colonel with Shirley Temple?-- lots of politically incorrect language in that movie. Native Americans had similar racial discrimination in Oklahoma in the 1950's+.
Fredi Washington beautiful girl.. did not know her
Saw it,good act Cladette had. Black in her DNA perfect for Cleopatra movie.
TruthSword cleopatra was Greek from Greek family that colonized Egypt. Those Colonizers weren’t black.
the white woman goes upstairs BUT thehonodable black woman DOWNSTAIRS?????
That hit me hard. So many little details did hurt and hit hard. 😧😭😭
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Can we get the pancakes somewhere?
It seems loosely based on Aunt Jemimahm, except that Aunt Jemimah is just a character.
@@SteveSegovia Well this became a very timely subject matter
@@astrolabe1976 yeah, I know. For some reason I was remembering this movie. It is such an accurate representation of the real that went over my head when I first saw it. Now I'm like "it's so obvious!"
Ya know what? My blood sugar is getting to high anyway so better off I don’t taste them. 😂
Steve Segovia well no, all the actresses that played Aunt Jemima were never offered the a cut of the profits
Common for white people to register black inventions as theirs.or for white people to play coloured roles as white.
The 1959 version is typical Hollywood, glitzy and phony. The 1934 version is so much more realistic in my opinion.
I hope you're kidding, but maybe you didn't get it. The 1959 version was intentionally made by Douglas Sirk to look phony, from the dialog right down to the costumes and furniture. Imitation.
To bad a lot of these great movies used to be free on television, I saw a lot of classic movies on television now they want to to buy them or rent them, money, money, money, sickening
I was soooo mad when she turned down the money to remain the cook!🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Those pancakes must've been good.
Typical of the day. The black woman wasn't allowed, in this movie, to make money on her own recipe and rise above being a maid. So wrong in so many ways.
Ava Gardner look a like
Fredi was OBVIOUSLY biracial. She was mixed.
She's black... she comes from a predominately black family, her sister Isabel Washington, was married to Adam clayton Powell Jr, an icon in the black American community, a man who also could pass as white... I don't know if you know this or not but we in the black American community, come in many different ways, we are not all pure blood west central Africans... we have admixture bloodline. some of us look white.
@@bobbyschannel349 mixed
@@bobbyschannel349Thank You
She's had 2 mixed parents like Zoe Kravitz
20%, really?
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Offering 20 percent interest isn't unbelievable to us in this day and age.
If you invented the product yourself and someone only wanted to give you 20% profit of your own product, that's ridiculous no matter what year it is...
that’s so sad how she’s alone ! that part of history is so cringe !
#DisneyDiva
She looks more white to me she was probably adopted
She wasn’t white, she wasn’t black- we need to come up with a real name of race instead of “ mixed “
Biracial could mean any mix of races
Hey Caucasian lady. You were the same in need of work. You robbed and treated the black lady with greed and disrespect...and her daughter situation was disheartening enough. The more you know. Culture race torture and greedy people
1959 version better
Noo
The Black lady should have started her own business. The White lady did all the work and made them both rich.
It was the black womans recipe to begin with! It was ALL her hard work that originated everything which is why that woman gave her a small percentage. What you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense. SMH
Unfortunately the black woman would not have had the opportunity to start her business in such racist times. She should have received a large percentage as it was her recipe and the white woman a small percentage!
She didn't want to. She just wanted to stay with the white woman instead of being sent away with money enough to buy her own big house and her own new car.
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