Birthday: November 11, 2036
In the light of today's tinderbox racial tensions, it is hardly likely that a white actress would be cast as a light-skinned black girl. But that's just what happened in 1959, when actress Susan Kohner played the troubled Sara Jane in the Ross Hunter-produced remake of Imitation of Life -- and nobody thought ill of the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences when they ...more- 1962
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion P
- Freud
- nom
- 1959
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion P
- Imitation of Life
- win
- 1959
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Supporting Actress
- Imitation of Life
- nom
- 1962
- Freud
- Martha Freud
- 1961
- By Love Possessed
- Helen Detweiler
- 1960
- All the Fine Young Cannibals
- Catherine McDowall
- 1959
- The Gene Krupa Story
- Ethel Maguire
- 1959
- Imitation of Life
- Sara Jane (older)











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