African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 50's, a time in which few black people were ever given an opportunity to act with major studio films. Fortunately Moore's roles began improving as Hollywood 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 racism. Within the next decade Hollywood unde ...[Read Story]
