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Imitation of Life

1934 & 1959

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Brett Alan Dewing
May 06, 2024
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As I am slowly winding down my viewing of The Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022 list (7 to go), I came to 1959’s Douglas Sirk-directed Imitation of Life. However, it is a general rule that one should watch previous versions of a story on film before watching the later iterations. Thus, I began with the 1934 John M. Stahl version of Imita…

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