"Imitation of Life" (1934)






"It can't be it. I have no little colored children in my class... I didn't know she was colored"

"Imitation of Life"

1934 American drama film directed by John M. Stahl
Louise Beavers, Dorothy Black as Peola Johnson, age 9




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