maybe her only talent...
When I see Meghan, I think about that 1959 film called
“Imitation of Life” with Lana Turner, Sandra Dee and Susan Kohner. Lana plays Lora Meridith an actress, but the sub-plot involves Annie Johnson, Lora’s newly widowed black maid.
Lora has a daughter (Sarah Jane) who has very light skin and straight hair. Eventually, Sarah Jane gets older and decides to find a job, maybe a man too. She begins to pass herself off as being white. Suddenly, she “doesn’t know” her mother anymore.
The movie sounds schloky and soap opera-ish, but it was very well acted.
I live that movie. The funeral scene...
maybe her only talent...
Imitation of Life put in a recent guest appearance in the opening scene of Operation Finale, which is about the capture of Adolph Eichmann. Susan Kohner's son, Chris Weitz, directed Operation Finale. Using a clip from his mom's biggest picture was a nice tribute; the clip also fits thematically, so much so that it seemed like a bit of rather heavy handed, artificial staging until I learned about the family connection. When a director is tossing a bouquet to his mom from a film she did before he was born, I'm willing to overlook a bit of insider gameplaying.
Operation Finale begins with a prologue involving a blown Mossad operation in which the wrong Nazi was assassinated. (This is an important character point going forward.) Then the credits roll. The Susan Kohner scene appears immediately after the credits, as the main body of the film begins.