While spending a day at the beach, a young widowed mother and
her daughter meet a black homeless woman and her daughter. After getting to
know each other, the widow decides to let the homeless mother and her daughter come and live with them in their tiny apartment.
Lora Meredith, a young mother who had lost her husband in
the war, who’s determination to make it on the stage and make a name for herself
tries to give her little girl everything she never had. Later on she does land
a small part in a comedy play and then becomes an overnight success. She
finally has her dream of becoming a star, and is now able to afford a nice home
for her and her new friend and their daughters. Along with that she is able to
buy her daughter things she could never have before, but the only thing her daughter
really asks for is that her mother would be around more often.
Annie Johnson, a mother with a kind loving heart, who would
put someone else’s happiness before hers was left by her husband and she
now has to take care of their daughter who’s half black and half white. Her
daughter loathes the thought of knowing that she is only half white and tries
to make sure no one ever finds out who her mother is. When she gets older she
decides to run away and become a show girl at a night club.
No matter what happened to them in their lives, the
mothers were always there for each other. They didn’t betray each other, they
would come to each other when they had troubles, and they even treated each
other’s daughters as their own. This movie was released in 1959 and was
directed by Douglas Sirk, and starred Lana Turner and Juanita Moore. They
played how friends should be no matter their backgrounds or who they were before. Although
the ending is bitter sweet, it shows how strong a friendship can be.
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