{"id":3244,"date":"2025-07-27T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2025-07-27T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:05:41","slug":"retro-movie-adventures-imitation-of-life-1959-featuring-juanita-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/27\/retro-movie-adventures-imitation-of-life-1959-featuring-juanita-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: Imitation of Life (1959) featuring Juanita Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is a movie that has a heavy racial equality message. It’s also a movie where a black woman lives and works in the home of a white woman for for over a decade and the white woman doesn’t realize the black woman has friends. It’s a movie where Lora treats Annie as an equal, but lets Annie call her “Miss Lora” for her entire life. It’s a movie where Annie’s daughter is berated for wanting to pass as white, but expects her to limit her life to “acceptable” jobs for black people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walk of Fame Watch: Juanita Moore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Juanita Moore was nominated for an Academy Award and A Golden Globe for this part. She appeared in over 50 films, and worked for 40 years after this movie came out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when did she get her star on the Walk of Fame?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October of 2024, ten years after she died. Way to be timely, Hollywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s poster inspiration is another movie about the imitation of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I went a little more “used poster” on this one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The movie that ended racism forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}