Imitation of Life

In 1947, widowed mother Lora Meredith dreams of becoming a famous Broadway actress. Losing track of her young daughter Susie at a crowded Coney Island beach, she asks a stranger, Steve Archer, to help her find the girl. Meanwhile, Susie has been taken up and looked after by Annie Johnson, who is also a single mother. Her daughter Sarah Jane is about Susie's age. Lora is reunited with Susie, and the two women talk.