#JuanitaMoore
BLACK Actress JUANITA MOORE, Star of the classic film "Imitation of Life" died January 1, 2014 at the age of 99.
October 19, 1922 - January 1, 2014
R.I.P.
"JUANITA MOORE'S MINI-BIO"
African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films.
Fortunately Moore's roles began improving as Hollywood developed a social consciousness toward the end of the decade.
In 1959 she received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Imitation of Life (1959), a glossy updating of a once controversial Fannie Hurst novel about racism. Within the next decade Hollywood underwent several sociological upheavals, and Juanita was one of the beneficiaries.
She became a fixture in black-oriented films of the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in such films as Uptight (1968), Thomasine & Bushrod (1974) and Abby (1974).
She also appeared in Walt Disney Pictures' The Kid (2000), and has been in a total of more than 30 films.
Sources: imdb, Youtube
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