Come September (1961)
Comedy | Romance
Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.
Starring: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Walter Slezak, Brenda de Banzie
Director: Robert Mulligan
Gidget (1959)
Comedy
A young girl discovers surfing and love (in that order) during one transitive summer.
Starring: Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell, Mary LaRoche, Joby Baker
Director: Paul Wendkos
Imitation of Life (1959)
Drama | Romance
Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though Annie's little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and obnoxious, Sarah Jane doesn't like being black; since she's light-skinned (her father was practically white), she spends the rest of the film passing as white, much to her mother's heartache and shame. Lora, meanwhile, virtually ignores her own daughter in a single-minded quest for stardom.
Starring: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda, Dan O'Herlihy, Juanita Moore, Karin Dicker
Director: Douglas Sirk
