Classic Movie Thursdays @ Central — “Imitation of Life”

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If it’s Thursday afternoon, then its classic movie time at the Central Branch of the Queens Library. In “Imitation of Life” a struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

Classic Movie Thursdays @ Central – “Bachelor Mother”

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 If it’s Thursday afternoon, then its movie time at the Central Branch of the Queens Library. Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin’s Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly’s unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and “her” baby together.