Whenever the film “Imitation of Life” is recycled on cable television or is part of retrospective of Black cinema, it is usually the 1959 version starring Lana Turner with Juanita Moore as her Black co-star. But the other day on TCM, the older version, produced in 1934 with Claudette Colbert in the lead role showed … Continue reading Stereotyped as a maid, Louise Beavers, made it anyway