The Milton Public Library will host the second film in teacher Jeff Stoodt’s film series called “Segregated Worlds” on Thursday, November 8th, at 6:15 PM in the Keys Community Room. Mr. Stoodt’s series is in support of the themes included in To Kill A Mockingbird, the current Milton Reads book.The film is Imitation of Life and there will be trivia before it is shown at 6:15 and then the screening will happen at 6:30.

This 1934 film stars Claudette Colbert who plays a young widow raising a daughter. She joins forces with a black woman, a widower in a similar situation. They open a pancake parlor, with Delilah (played by Louise Beaver) as a full business partner. The film spans 15 years in their lives and explores the two women’s troubled personal and family lives. Nominated for Best Picture (it lost to Colbert’s ” It Happened One Night!”), the movie was so popular that it was screened again in the 1940s and remade in 1959 with Lana Turner. All films are free and open to the public, and are held downstairs on the lower level of the library. The library is located at 476 Canton Avenue, and this series is made possible by The Friends of the Milton Public Library. For more information, contact Jean Hlady, Adult Services Librarian, at (617) 698-5757.”