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A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a suc | dG1faGVnMmw3ZDZhNXc
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00:00Love?
00:01But you've always had that.
00:03Yes, by telephone, by postcard, by magazine interviews.
00:06You've given me everything but yourself.
00:21I'm white.
00:24White.
00:27White.
00:30White!
00:37Starring Lana Turner as the great stage star Laura Merritt,
00:41the men in her life, John Gavin,
00:45Dan O'Herlihy,
00:48Robert Alda.
00:50If the dramatist club wants to eat and sleep with you,
00:52you eat and sleep with them.
00:53It's disgusting.
00:54It pays off.
00:56Her daughter, Sandra Dee,
00:58Susan Conner,
00:59who was born to be hurt.
01:01I don't want to have to come through back doors
01:03or feel lower than other people
01:04or apologize for my mother's color.
01:06Don't say that.
01:07She can't help her color.
01:09But I can.
01:11Juanita Moore, hers was the shame and the pain.
01:15There, Jane Johnson.
01:17You put your clothes on and get out of this place.
01:19And the incomparable Mahalia Jackson.
01:22For the blood of the world,
01:25I'm going to hold the lead.
01:31I'm not asking you not to go down there, Laura.
01:32I'm telling you.
01:33And what makes you think you have that right?
01:36Because I love you.
01:37Isn't that enough?
01:38No, Steve. I'm sorry.
01:40All the kids talking behind my back.
01:43Is it true?
01:44No.
01:45Are you black?
01:46No, I'm as white as you.
01:47You're lying.
01:48I'm not.
01:49I'd like to hold you in my arms once more.
01:53Like you were still my baby.
01:55All right.
01:56Oh, Sarah Jane.
01:57Oh, my baby.
01:58Oh, my baby.
01:59Oh, my baby.
02:00Oh, my baby.
02:01Oh, my baby.
02:02Oh, my baby.
02:03Oh.
02:04Oh.
02:05An imitation.
02:07An imitation of life.
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