On Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:19:08 EST <RICHAR19@SNYNEWVM> said: >A couple of more questions here...Does anyone know of a place in the NYC area >that might have old films with Black casts? I am really interested in seeing >a few of Dorothy Dandridge's films and am especially interested in checking >out _Imitation of Life_ with Fredi Washington. Also did anyone see a tv movie The 1934, John Stahl version of IMITATION OF LIFE is getting harder and harder to track down. The last time I rented it in 16mm (5 or 6 years ago) I had to go through all kinds of shenanigans to find a print. I've seen listings for it on American Movie Classics cable channel, but it's always turned out to be the '59 version. It's really a shame, too, because Fredi Washington's performance in it is really interesting and Louise Beavers's Aunt Delilah is as archetypal a "mammy" as you'll ever see in film. Their work in the '34 version makes a striking comparision to Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore's in Douglas Sirk's version. A footnote: The Sirk version is now the subject of an anthology in the Rutgers "Films in Print" Series. It's edited by Lucy Fischer and includes "the complete continuity script of the film, critical commentary and published reviews, interviews with the director and key actors, and a filmography and bibliography" (from the publicity blurb--it just came out last year). $14 paper/$37 cloth. ---------- What the great philosophers have said vis-a-vis love (as interpreted by Matt Groening): Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche ---------- | | BITNET : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | SCREEN-L Coordinator | GEnie : J.BUTLER27 | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |