Hi, my name is Joey of Brego.com. And today I will be reviewing the 1934 film Imitation of LIfe directed by John M Stahl , Claude Colbert, Louise Beavers and Freddie Washington. It is based on a novel by Franny Hurst of the same name. First, I should give a historical context as to what the United States was like when this film was written.https://youtu.be/n8fVWyVxzDQRemember, this film was written wake of the Jim Crow South. During the Great Migration and the Great Depression, only seven years earlier, did the KKK, March en mass on Washington, D.C.. At that time lynchings were occurring in the South, probably throughout the whole United States, in that very year in 1934, Hitler had seized power in Germany.Fanny got her inspiration to write imitation of life from a train trip. She took through Canada with her friend. a fellow writer, Zora Neal Hurston was a...