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clarabowlover · 4 months

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Susan Kohner (ca.1960s)

#susan kohner #1960s #beautiul american actress #close up portrait #cropped photo #b/w photography #old hollywood

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itsmyfriendisaac · 7 months

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The Gene Krupa Story: after the percussion bug bites him again, the titular drummer leaves seminary school to pursue music as a fulltime gig. This biopic also sheds light on his long suffering girlfriend, Ethel Maguire, whom Gene would later marry twice!

#scenes #1950s #looks #sal mineo #susan kohner #gene krupa #the gene krupa story #coming of age #romance #musicals

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vintagehollywood1 · 1 year

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Susan Kohner ❤️✨

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mydailyvintagephotos · 2 years

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Imitation of Life ~ 1959

Juanita Moore ~ Annie Johnson

Susan Kohner -Sarah Jane

Troy Donahue ~ Frankie

Sandra Dee~ Susie

John Gavin ~ Steve Archer

Lana Turner ~ Lora Meredith

#juanita moore #Susan Kohner #lana turner #John Gavin #Sandra Dee #troy donahue #imitation of life #vintage hollywood #vintage glamour #hollywood #old movies

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brand-upon-the-brain · 2 years

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Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)

#Imitation of Life #Douglas Sirk #Susan Kohner #Film

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annoyinglyperfectartisan · 4 months

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#george hamilton #susan kohner

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byneddiedingo · 2 years

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Lana Turner and Juanita Moore in Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)

Cast: Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, John Gavin, Susan Kohner, Sandra Dee, Robert Alda, Dan O'Herlihy, Karin Dicker, Terry Burnham, Troy Donahue, Mahalia Jackson. Screenplay: Eleanore Griffin, Allan Scott, based on a novel by Fannie Hurst. Cinematography: Russell Metty. Art direction: Alexander Golitzen, Richard H. Riedel. Film editing: Milton Carruth. Music: Frank Skinner.

John Gavin was Hollywood's ultimate decorative male, there to look good in bed with Janet Leigh in Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) but otherwise to play no significant role in the film. (When he shows up later with Vera Miles, playing Leigh's sister, to find out what happened to Marion Crane, she's the one who does all the work, including the discovery of the mummified Mrs. Bates in the cellar.) It's no surprise that when Gavin died a few years ago, several of the obituaries mentioned the scene in Thoroughly Modern Millie (George Roy Hill, 1967) in which his character is paralyzed by a poison dart: He's been presented as so handsomely wooden that it takes a long time before anyone notices he's just sitting there. He's not quite so inert in Imitation of Life, but that's because Douglas Sirk, like Hitchcock, knew how to make use of him: He's there to hang as nicely on Lana Turner's arm as the Jean Louis gowns do on her body. Unfortunately, this makes for some of the film's weaker scenes, the ones in which Sandra Dee's Susie develops a crush on him, but even there the fault is more Dee's limitations as an actress than Gavin's as an actor. He comes off much better in one of the key scenes, in which his Steve Archer proposes to Turner's Lora Meredith. It works because Turner is skillful enough to make Lora into a woman who knows how not to get trapped by male expectations of what women should be. It's not quite so well-played as the scene in Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942) I wrote about a couple of days ago, in which Charlotte Vale rebuffs Jerry Durrance's suggestion that she should be looking for a man instead of taking care of his daughter, but that's because Lana Turner wasn't Bette Davis. Still, the scene comes off, and it's reinforced later when Lora is the one who proposes to Steve, after she's gotten what she wanted. The film belongs, of course, to the women, not only Turner but also and especially to Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner, who got the Oscar nominations they deserved. It's possible to fault the film for "whitewashing" by casting Kohner as the Black girl who tries to pass for white, especially since in the earlier version of Imitation of Life (John M. Stahl, 1934), the corresponding character was played by Fredi Washington, who was indeed Black. But even to raise the issue of "passing" in 1959, especially in a film that some considered little more than soap opera, was audacious: The Production Code had long forbidden any treatment of miscegenation. And Sirk artfully turns the issue into a generational one: Sarah Jane's desire to be white as a reaction against the subservience of her mother, foreshadowing a generation gap that would be operative in the coming decade's civil rights struggle. Sirk's films have a way of working themselves into your head unexpectedly, putting the lie to my observation that drama makes you think and melodrama makes you feel. Sirk's melodrama -- Imitation of Life is unashamed of the clichés it exploits and usually transcends -- undoubtedly makes you feel. Is there ever a dry eye at showings of the film's funeral finale? But by confronting the problems that underlie the melodrama it also has a sneaky way of making you think.

#Imitation of Life #Douglas Sirk #Lana Turner #Juanita Moore

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jlundenberger · 1 year

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Two Oscar nominations, both for Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Juanita Moore & Susan Kohner. IMITATION OF LIFE (1959), tonight at 10:00 PM on #TCM. #oscarnominee #melodrama #oscarhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqag6ghgVm5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tcm #oscarnominee #melodrama #oscarhistory

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rosie-love98 · 7 months

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Concerning Universal Monsters:

Say, back in the 1930's-70's, a film series would be produced where Marya Zaleska, and The Monster Of Frankenstein would team up with various other monsters to fight against Dracula, Alucard and their league. Later on in the series, The Monster and Marya would get together romantically. Either as The Monster undergoes an enchantment/curse/scientific experiment that turns him into a human at night, or remains his Monster self, I'm still yet to decide.

Anyway, The Monster and Marya would manage to produce a daughter together. A normal-looking daughter who would technically be a dhamphir...Or at least, a 1/4 vampire if Marya's mother was human.

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Here are some pictures to help--

-Irene Papas:

-Pier Angeli:

-Marisa Pavan:

-Susan Kohner:

-Ina Balin:

-Natalie Wood:

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-Elena Nathanael:

-Tina Aumont:

#universal monsters #marya zaleska #the monster of frankenstein #frankenstein monster #adam frankenstein #adam frankenstein x marya zaleska #the monster x marya zaleska #fankids #fankids ideas #fancasting #fan casting

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signalwatch · 8 months

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Watched: 09/21/2023

Format: TCM

Viewing: Second

Director: Douglas Sirk

Sometimes you just need a good cry. This is the movie to make you do it whether you like it or not.

Way back in the mid-90's when I was going through film school, we, of course, had screenings of films. The movies were curated and representative of a variety of eras, forms, genres, etc... all tee'd up to illustrate whatever the instructors planned to discuss that week. It's a weird way to do homework, but we saw some great stuff. Also, I got to learn to sit with films that were never going to be my cup of tea, especially at age 19 or so.

One of the films shown was Imitation of Life, a 1959 melodrama spanning decades and following a young, widowed white woman, Lora (Lana Turner), who teams up with an African-American single mother, Annie (Juanita Moore), to jointly raise daughters of a similar age.

It's actually a remake of a film I haven't seen from 1934, starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers. And one day I'll watch that one, too.

During the same meet-cute where Annie and Lora meet, Steve (John Gavin) appears as a photographer, indirectly getting Lora her first gig and - as this is Lana Turner - deciding to woo her. Lora welcomes Annie and her daughter into their humble apartment, and as Annie settles into triple role of housekeeper, best friend, co-mother, Lora's dreams of success on the stage suddenly take off.

At the half-way point, the movie escalates quickly. We have a time shift to the end of the girl's high school careers. Lora's daughter, Susie (Sandra Dee), is a perky, happy rich blonde girl attending a nearby boarding school. Annie's daughter, Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner), has matured into a lovely but bitter girl. Early signs of her wishing to "pass" as white have grown, and now she's hiding her mother and the fact she's Black from anyone she can.

To put a point on it, the title has meaning! As Lora is focused on her career, she misses what's happening with her daughter, with Sarah Jane and - finally - Annie. She's been able to outsource her mothering role to her friend, running from job to job, and having no real interest in what's happening with Sarah Jane other than a detached view of her friend being upset. But Susie herself is living in a world of illusion - believing she's falling in love with Steve, who's essentially treating her like his daughter or pal.

Sarah Jane's story is paired with Annie - who can't do anything to help her daughter and stay in her life. The dialog may be a bit clunky by 2023 standards, but in 1959 as much as today, this is some rough stuff to watch in the best way.

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Look, Annie is slowly dying over the last 45 minutes of the movie, and nobody fucking notices, even as she's lying in bed. Lora is preoccupied with Steve, her career, etc..., Sarah Jane has run off to the West Coast to live as a white woman, and Susie is convinced she's marrying Steve - and when that doesn't work out, she's going to run away to Colorado.

Annie can't save these people from themselves, and she can't be there for them anymore.

Anyway, she passes - and you think you're okay, until the funeral and there's Mahalia Jackson. And I was utterly wrecked.

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Back in my college days, by the end of the film, the snobby film kids were largely locked in, myself included. I think I was more invested this time than even on a first viewing.

Melodrama gets some side-eye. We think of it as "soap opera" or low-class. There's surely some misogyny baked into this take as this film, and many others aimed at women, were busily passing the Bechdel test decades before it was dreamed up - and this doesn't deal much at all with masculine interests or pursuits. But at the end of the day, melodrama can be more universally understood than big concept pictures and the accessibility of the emotional content - when done well - can carry over complicated ideas. This is a movie about challenges the audience who showed up for a Lana Turner movie* may not have been aware they were getting.

The movie is matter-of-fact about the world to which Sarah Jane is reacting, and her desire to want something other than the race-based class system into which she was born is understandable, if utterly tragic.. But the love of a mother being so great that she has to let her daughter go is some moving stuff. You hope that audiences of 1959 (or 2023) understood their part in the tragedy. Only in death is Annie truly appreciated.

It's Sirk, so every frame is gorgeous, and I half want to re-watch immediately to determine some of what he did to drive the story with camera and lighting - with astounding use of technicolor in mostly domestic, not-exotic locations or sets. This is his final Hollywood melodrama, and I've only seen this one and All That Heaven Allows. I'm curious to check out more.

*prior to making this movie, Turner had been caught up in a sensational news story as her mobster boyfriend was killed by her own daughter who was protecting Turner from physical abuse. Prior to that, Turner was considered one of the sexiest women in film (see: The Postman Always Rings Twice), and arguably Turner was continuing her run of doing quite well in this department with this film.

#lana turner #imitation of life #Youtube

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beautifulactres · 1 year

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Susan Kohner (1936-)

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filmes-online-facil · 2 years

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O ano é 1947 e Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) é uma aspirante a atriz, viúva, que mora com sua sua única filha, Susie (Sandra Dee), e vive ignorando-a, enquanto busca construir uma carreira. Quando ela conhece Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), uma afrodescendente também viúva e mãe solteira, convida-a a trabalhar na sua casa e criar as filhas das duas juntas. No momento em que Annie e sua filha Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) se mudam para a casa de Lora, a menina passa a renegar as suas origens: por ter a pele bem mais clara que sua mãe, ela se declara branca para todos. Já Susie se sente rejeitada pela mãe e acaba encontrando conforto nos braços de um homem mais velho (John Gavin).

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vintagehollywood1 · 1 year

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