Exactly 💯 👏🏼. Thank you. It is a propaganda film to glamorize whiteness and vilify Biracial people, all while making blacks look like victims. It's disgusting.

@@MulattoHistoryChannel Sarah Jane wasn’t bi-racial. Her mother in the beginning of the film stated her father was near white, which means he had in the vernacular of times colored blood. He would have been classified as a mulatto. Now in accordance to those classification he would have been either a quad (one quarter) or a octo (one eighth). Also with the laws of eugenics which were heavily in rotation you need to go at least three generations back in order to be claimed by that race. So Sarah Jane’s parentage would have cast her as colored. Although her mothers words were unfortunate for that time period it was true she was going to have to embrace being colored or she was going to have to walk away and pass which brings on a whole other set of issues and problems. For that time period Sarah Jane’s appearance didn’t represent who she was which was a colored woman. Her attitude towards her mother was foul and no matter how anybody tries to manipulate it. The young man who beat her up had not met her mother he heard her mother was a negro. Each time her mother found her she was in compromising situations. She wanted to be white, which is what she was trying to achieve let’s not pretend, there were much more savory ways to do so. There is another movie from that time period about a colored woman who looked white who was educated and began passing out of frustration. Ultimately due to some not being able to accept who she was she ended up walking away from the life she created. If you haven’t watch the 1934 version of this movie. The actress who played Pecola the Sarah Jane of that movie was actually colored Freddie Washington and she makes Sarah Jane look like a choir girl.

​@@MulattoHistoryChannel huh

@@timtebowfan628 by loving and rising her 🤨

Uhh this movie was released in 1959, my mother was 10 yrs old at that time. So if she wasn’t offended neither should you be offended 😡. Get your panties out of a bunch and find something useful to do with yourself .

Jesus is the only way to healing, restoration and salvation to all souls. Please turn to him and he will change your life, depression into delight, soul heading from hell to heaven all because of what he did on the cross “Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” Romans 10:13

I agree

Yes

*Crushed me terribly.*

“Society is not something that exists apart from us - we have created it.”

I HAVE THE MOVIE....AND I CAN NEVER CONTAIN MY FEELINGS....I HURT JUST LOOKING AT PREVIEWS

Still brings tears to my eyes. Makes me want to watch it in its entirety.

YEEESSS!!! Me too!😢 When Mrs. Laura is sitting by Annie's bed and she takes her last breath and Mrs. Laura screams out Noooo! That's the tear jerker!😭

Very Sad denying her morher

The Movie with Sydney Poitier A PATCH OF BLUE was a real teary one to watch.

Agreed

Your right. Every time I watch this movie it brings me to tears

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With Mahalia singing out to the Lord as well. I read somewhere that the actors' reactions at the funeral were real because they didn't know that Mahalia was going to be in the movie, let alone sing.

I've seen this movie about 100 plus times. Each time feels like the first time. I cry my heart out. Great cast awesome actors. All time classic movie. 😢

It's 2024 and this ending still brings me to tears.

I cry like a baby every time I see that scene.

Me too ..Sara Jane loved her mom. .but the world wasn't accepting of her if they knew she was half black

​@@spicyhot2552she wasn't half black.

@@dawndavenport5166 In the movie she was half black..but not in real.life

​@@dawndavenport5166 take a breath its a movie not that deep lol plenty half black people in real life with similar experiences that look alot like Sara Jane doesn't matter

Right she NEVER GOT ONE 😢

That was Natalie Woods

No.​@@naskeelove6363

@@naskeelove6363 - That wasn’t Natalie Woods! 😂

Wrong. Her name is Susan Kohner​@@naskeelove6363

One of my favorite movies of all time. I believe Susan Kohner (adult Sarah Jane) and Karin Dicker (young Sarah Jane) are all we have left of the main cast members.

Jesus is the only way to healing, restoration and salvation to all souls. Please turn to him and he will change your life, depression into delight, soul heading from hell to heaven all because of what he did on the cross “Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” Romans 10:13

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One of the things most people miss is the young white male star who was believed to be a very popular star that slapped her several times in her face when he found out she was black. Hell, he followed her to keep beating her in her face. You could tell it was made before civil rights.

Totally agree unfortunately juanita Moore couldn't find work for two years after this film came out due to the times it was difficult to find work

Agree

For decades since 1959, Imitation Of Life made Universal Studios more money than any other movie. Lana Turner was my mother's favorite actress. The Postman Always Rings Twice and Madame X! Imitation Of Life is American culture - a cult classic! A tear-jerker! I met Lana Turner in 1991 Los Angeles. I was starstruck!

Yes indeed, Mahalia Jackson was an excellent singer with a beautiful and powerful voice ❤.

Yes she was my Grandmother's favorite singer too. And as a singer myself I grew to love Mahalia J too.

My mom too born 58

@@patremagilbert682 I was born in '58 and biracial: white father, black mother. This film hits home in SO many ways. It also breaks my heart because I could never do my Mom that way . . . yet, I understood her situation.

😢 so sad 😢😢😢

💔😢😢😢

@@marcusanderson933 so 😢😢😢😢😢 movie ever

Who created that thought for a child 🤔

Society

@kcirtapelyk6060 Self righteousness much.

@@bunnitrixelstrange3594Sounds like someone is an ungrateful brat who doesn’t appreciate the people who gave them life and raised them. Birds of a feather, flock together.

@@kcirtapelyk6060 "The people who gave them life“? You mean her absentee White father who had a one night stand with her mother who couldn’t be bothered to have a conversation about race. Then brings Sarah into the World FATHERLESS in that society. It’s not just about race. Being the child of a single mom in those days was considered humiliating and shameful. You said "I don’t care if it’s the 40s/50s“ but time period and context does MATTER. Yeah this just screams of classic narcissism and zero foresight. You reap what you sow!

I agree. She was awful to her mother. I had no sympathy for her at the funeral.

Her mother should have understood

I still cry til this day!

Underneath that cruelty, Sarah Jane deeply loved her mother.

@@RoseHunt-li7dfyep she Loved her mother but Annie died of a broken heart she never wanted Sarah Jane to suffer it was hurting Annie she felt Sarah Jane pain

​@@doncooper384yes the mother felt every inch of her daughter pain and it killed her not able to help her.

😢😢😢😢im just seeing this video it's absolutely sad

What’s the name of this movie?

Not really! Sarah wanted to be white so she could fit in. She hated who she was! Until it was too late.

You'll find my sympathy for Sarah Jane between sh## and syphilis. Your mother is the one that God picked himself to be the everything you need to survive this cruel world. Her mother was trying to make her unashamed through love, but she also should've said more to her as a child. But that is not a reason to treat your mother like crap.

@@wrinthiak3431 Sara was navigating herself in that world, she was able to pass for white, but the mama kept messing it up for her. Trying to get her to be proud of being black. But if you ain't proud, you just ain't proud. That's all there is to it.

Sara Jane is biracial in real life. She's half Mexican and white

No remorse for her. She was an evil spirit. Hate the world but y hate your mother that unconditionally loved her

Same here.

True

Especially if u have a good one

😢😢😢😢true.

Amen 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

I miss my mum every day but often sense her presence 🌌💕🙏

The amazing Juanita Moore!

Susan Kohner I think I think her son made movies later on

@@user-rw2uh5bv3o she was awesome, and she was biracial in real life. She was half Mexican and half white

​@@user-gd8ox9ed6bdidn't know that. She's very beautiful, and really good as Sarah Jane.ll

@@craigbfolksinger I don't know about her son, but her mother made movies. She was an actress in Mexico and she lived to be over one hundred.

​@@craigbfolksingeractually her sons are directors they did the American pie films Susan retired from acting a few years after this film came out to be a wife and mother

I lived it

🧐 Your grandma did not understand why passing for white was a chosen path than being cruelly treated as a brown person?🧐🤔

@@bonitabonita3431 .. wow, are you really are that stupid ? Did you read the comment, did I use words that are too advanced for you to understand ?

@@bonitabonita3431 stop putting words into peoples mouth. That’s not what that person said at all

Blacks can't pass as white.

The comedian Carol Channing was a good example of a "" black person " passing for white

Why the bleep would you post this movie then say something crazy like that ​@@MulattoHistoryChannel

It’s not that deep

@@giachanel633 That's because her father was a mulatto & her mother was a white woman.

Wonderful movie, but you will need a lot of tissue. Enjoy!

Me too!

It's just really hard to swallow but we must all really accept this anti blackness that exist in ALL of us

She was not Biracial, Sarah Jane was Black!! Her Father was a light skinned Black Man.

​@@jakebarneman8702she was mixed

Thank you, if you watched the movie you should know this.

But why choose to join Whiteness? It is basically portrayed as violent, evil, alien, exclusionary…whiteness is clearly not a healthy thing to desire to be. I’m very surprised at anyone wanting to be “White.” To pursue personal power as the expense of liberation for all and equality is wild to me. Why do people forget that it’s not Blackness that was ever a problem…. the violence of whiteness has always been the only problem. She is trying to escape the systemic violence of whiteness by becoming accepted as one of them. Lots of White people have given up children, cut off family members and lied about their partners identity in order to remain in the good financial graces of the cult. White people can fix this problem by reducing the xenophobia in their culture. Look at how accepting her mother was of her - even though she looked white! This has to be stopped and White people hold the power to do it.

My mother liked Sarah Jane Mixed European and black. From st kitts and nevis

I loved this movie it was beautiful and made about mixed-race young women who can pass for no other race but Caucasian. The part I did not like when the guy she was dating fine out. And he began slapping her in the face. It's was only a movie premiere that demonstrated racism in those days of a biracial child or children. I loved the actors and actresses. I believe that all people Universally need to watch this movie premiere who's are in biracial relationships even today. I understand back then that people talked to marriage only in your race. And a lot of nationality still teaches that to their children today. Thanks for sharing. PeaceUn2U I♡it. 7/24/24

What's the name of the movie 🍿 Ty

​@@barbaramelville337Imatation of Life. I'm probably your grandmother 's age

Me to 😢😢

Yes, and the actress who played her, Susan Kohner, is Mexican & Hungarian Jewish.

@@Vanipollonia1 unlike the 1934. Freddie Washington was light skinned white passing in looks but both of her parents were black. Hollywood wanted her to white pass, but she refused and had to have her skin darkened for roles.

@@peachygal4153 Yeah, I've seen that version of Imitation of Life as well. Someone on KZfaq did a whole video about Freddie Washington.

Good to know.

She so beautiful but she was mean to her mother

I did not know there was another version.

There’s a black an white movie about a woman who passes for white marries a shoulder .. she loses her child and asked what color was the baby’s. Her husband thought she had cheated on him. She returns home separated from her husband 😢

Claudette Colbert plays the main mother of Susan.

@@octavianicole6958 The movie is called "I Passed for White".

​@tanyasoto1346 In the 1934 version, the daughter's name was Jessie, not Sarah Jane.

No it's beautiful, because it's historical evidence we EXIST. The black community would rather have you watching slave movies

​@@krazyjnva2up2down55 exactly