Imitation of Life Articles

The 50th anniversary screening of Douglas Sirk's classic weepie Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, and Oscar nominees Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner (above), was presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, August 21, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The event was hosted by film critic Stephen Faber. In Imitation of Life, white [...]

Karen Dicker, Juanita Moore, Terry Burnham, and Lana Turner in Imitation of Life Douglas Sirk’s classic melodrama Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner, will have its 50th anniversary celebrated with a screening of a recently struck print at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Friday, August 21, at 7:30 p.m. Hosted by film critic Stephen Farber, [...]

Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street FILM The Barretts of Wimpole Street d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart The Count of Monte Cristo d: Rowland V. Lee; scr: Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh, Rowland V. Lee The Gay Divorcee d: Mark Sandrich; scr: George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, Edward Kaufman Hide-out d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Albert Hackett, [...]

Sandra Dee, Lana Turner in Imitation of Life Actress Sandra Dee died today of complications from kidney disease at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks. She was 63. Born Alexandra Zuck on April 23, 1942 (several sources have 1944), in Bayonne, New Jersey, Dee started modeling while in grade school. By the age of 12, she [...]