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Imitation of Life : You Never Asked

Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) sneaks out to see her white boyfriend Frankie (Troy Donahue), who beats her after learning she is black. Lora (Lana Turner) and Annie (Juanita Moore) are disturbed by her return home.

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close-up, disjunctive editing, dissolve, dolly shot, eyeline match, hard cut, high angle, lighting, low angle, medium close-up, mirror shot, mobile framing, music, empathetic, pan, tilt, two-shot

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, Black: Blackface, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, White: White American, White: White passing

"You Never Asked" in Imitation of Life. Directed by Douglas Sirk, Universal International Pictures, 1959, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2634

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Eduardo Mendoza

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