Juanita Moore
Juanita Moore
African-American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early '50s, a time in which few black actresses were given much to do in major-studio films. Fortunately, Juanita's roles began improving as Hollywood tentatively 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 racial inequity. Within the next decade Hollywood underwent several sociological upheavals, and Juanita Moore was one of the beneficiaries; she became a fixture of such black-oriented films of the '70s as Uptight (1969), Thomasine and Bushrod (1974) and Abby (1974). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Juanita Moore:
- Imitation of Life with Lana Turner , John Gavin , Sandra Dee , Dan O'Herlihy , Robert Alda , Susan Kohner , Ann Robinson , Troy Donahue , Joel Fluellen , Jack Weston , Bess Flowers , Eddie Parker
- Queen Bee with Joan Crawford , Barry Sullivan , Betsy Palmer , John Ireland , Fay Wray , Bill Walker
- Band of Angels with Clark Gable , Yvonne DeCarlo , Sidney Poitier , Efrem Jr. Zimbalist , Patric Knowles , Rex Reason , Torin Thatcher , Andrea King , Ray Teal , Raymond Bailey , William Forrest , Roy Barcroft , Ann Doran , William Fawcett , Charles Frank Horvath , William Schallert , Bob Steele , Dan White , Guy Wilkerson
- O'Hara's Wife with Ed Asner , Mariette Hartley , Jodie Foster , Perry Lang , Tom Bosley , Ray Walston , Nehemiah Persoff
- The Mack with Richard Pryor , Don Gordon , Roger E. Mosley , George Murdock
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