Carl Laemmle presents Claudette Colbert in Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Carl Laemmle presents Claudette Colbert in Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Carl Laemmle presents Claudette Colbert in Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life
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Claudette Colbert's name leads this 1934 lobby card for Universal's film of Fannie Hurst's novel *Imitation of Life*. Hurst's 1933 story follows a widowed mother who builds a pancake business while her daughter, played here by Rochelle Hudson, struggles with a wish to pass as white. Lobby cards like this one were displayed in theater lobbies to draw audiences, and the film's focus on the bond between mother and daughter, rather than romance alone, is worth noticing when viewing it today.
| Created / published | c1934. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : offset lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lobby cards 1930-1940.Offset lithographs Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 386. Copyrighted 1934 by Universal Pictures Corporation. Copyright 2001 by Universal City Studios, Inc. Courtesy of Universal Studio Publishing Rights. All rights reserved. Dwight Cleveland Lobby Card Collection. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1998:012 |
| Subjects | Colbert, Claudette--Performances. Hudson, Rochelle,--1916-1972--Performances. Mothers & children--1930-1940. Motion pictures--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,648 × 3,747 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221603 |
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