“IMITATION OF LIFE”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 121, 15 February 1935, Page 4

“IMITATION OF LIFE”

A far greater picture than “Back Street,” their now comes "Imitation of Life,” Universal’s screen version of Fannie Hurst's greatest novel with Claudette Colbert and Warren William heading an impressive cast. Here is the story that hits straight at the heart of everyone. It is the most absorbing drama of mother love ever written—the gripping story of two lovely daughters who, inadvertently but dramatically, bring tragedy into the lives of their mothers. It is the parallel of two unusual widows, and their daughters. It is a modern story—up to tlie minute,'sparkling with youth and life, and the zip of the present day. It is more than a story, it is life to-day, in which a business career stifles the natural love in a woman’s heart—only in the end to prove that woman is eternally feminine and that love must be the greater part of her very existence. John M. Stahl! Fannie Hurst I Claudette Colbert!—they make “Imitation of Life.” No director has presented it more poignantly than John M. Stahl. No novelist has probed it more deeply than Fanpie Hurst. No actress has portrayed it more ably, more feelingly, than Claudette Colbert. These three blending their talents, make “Imitation of Life” an outstanding motionpicture and a real-.love story, Their formula consists simply of telling the truth about two women. Bea Pullmann and Aunt Delilah are the women. Their secrets and sacrifices will strike sympathetic echoes in your soul. Ned Sparks, Rochelle Hudson, Louise Beavers, Alan Hale and Baby Jane, all have important roles.