#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Claudette Colbert as Bea Pullman in "Imitation of Life" (1934) - popcorn and red wine

Sunday, November 4, 2018

#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Claudette Colbert as Bea Pullman in "Imitation of Life" (1934)


Bea Pullman is a widow and single mother just working as a saleswoman for maple syrup like her husband. But her black housekeeper Delilah (Louise Beavers), also a single mother, has a secret pancake mix that soon puts the both of them as business partners to a restaurant then chain. As the years progress, Bea becomes the ultimate career woman of the '30s although with status, comes a different way she treats Delilah although no less loving for a woman of her time.

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