Question: Who played the black girl in imitation of life?

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context: TCM’s Jeff Stafford, observing that “"Imitation of Life" is certainly one of [Beavers’] best performances and should have been nominated for an Oscar,” recalled that when the picture came out, “Columnist Jimmy Fiddler [sic] was one of many who objected to this oversight and wrote, ‘I also lament the fact that the motion picture industry has not set aside racial prejudice in naming actresses. I don't see how it is possible to overlook the magnificent portrayal of the Negro actress, Louise Beavers, who played the mother in "Imitation of Life". If the industry chooses to ignore Miss Beavers' performance, please let this reporter, born and bred in the South, tender a special award of praise to Louise Beavers for the finest performance of 1934.’ “
question: Who played the black girl in imitation of life in 1934?
short_answers: Louise Beavers

Beavers
wikipage: Imitation of Life (1934 film)

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question: Who played the black widow in imitation of life in 1959?
short_answers: Juanita Moore

Moore

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question: Who played the half black girl in imitation of life in 1959?
short_answers: Dicker

Karin Dicker

context: Five years later, they are debt-free. The little girls are good friends, but one day Jessie (Marilyn Knowlden) calls Peola (Dorothy Black) “black.” Peola runs into the apartment declaring that she is not black, won’t be black, and that it is her mother who makes her black. Cradling her weeping daughter, Delilah tells Bea that this is simply the truth, and Peola has to learn to live with it. Peola’s father, a light-skinned African American, had the same struggle, and it broke him. Delilah receives another blow when she finds out that Peola has been “passing” at school. 
question: Who played the black girl with gair skin in imitation of life in 1934?
short_answers: Fredi Washington

Dorothy Black

Dorothy Black and Fredi Washington
wikipage: Imitation of Life (1934 film)

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knowledge: content: Imitation of Life is a 1934 American drama film directed by John M. Stahl. The screenplay by William Hurlbut, based on Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel of the same name, was augmented by eight additional uncredited writers, including Preston Sturges and Finley Peter Dunne.
wikipage: Imitation of Life (1934 film)

content: Beavers played Delilah in Imitation of Life (1934) in a dramatic role. Her character again plays a black housekeeper, but instead of the usual stereotypical comedic or purely functional role, Delilah's story line is a secondary parallel plot. The public reacted positively to Beavers's performance.[3] It was not only a breakthrough for Beavers, but was also "the first time in American cinema history that a black woman's problems were given major emotional weight in a major Hollywood motion picture".
wikipage: Louise Beavers

content: Washington was active in the Harlem Renaissance (1920s–1930s), her best known role being "Peola" in the 1934 version of the film Imitation of Life (1934), in which she plays a young light-skinned woman who decides to pass as white. 
wikipage: Fredi Washington

content: Cast
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Fredi Washington as Peola Johnson, age 19
Dorothy Black as Peola Johnson, age 9
wikipage: Imitation of Life (1934 film)

content: Moore's performance in the remake of Imitation of Life (1959) as black housekeeper Annie Johnson, whose daughter Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) passes for white, won her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
wikipage: Juanita Moore

content: Imitation of Life is the second film adaptation of Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel of the same name; the first, directed by John M. Stahl, was released in 1934.
wikipage: Imitation of Life (1959 film)
long_answer: Imitation of Life is a 1934 American drama film directed by John M. Stahl, which was based on Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel of the same name. Louise Beavers played a black housekeeper, a secondary parallel plot role that exhibited "the first time in American cinema history that a black woman's problems were given major emotional weight in a major Hollywood motion picture." Fredi Washington played the role of the housekeeper's daughter Peola, who is a young light skinned woman that decides to pass as white and Dorothy Black played the younger version of her. There was also a second adaptation of Hurst's book released in 1959 in which Juanita Moore played the role of the black housekeeper and Susan Kohner played the role of her daughter, with Karin Dicker playing the younger version.