i purchase this movie because of louise beaver . i be impressed with her performance in mr blandings build his dream house where she do more than hold her own in her all too short appearance with star like cary grant and myrna loy and melvyn douglas . and i be not disappointed . she really be the solid center of this movie and it true star . she be like some sort of early method actress with a terrific screen presence and and her stile of act differs remarkably from the more affected one of her act colleague in this movie who come through a real airhead ( or and shall we say designer product . ) in their imitation of life . basically i think this be less a movie about race but about delilah value and in this aspect it be an entirely different movie than the remake of 1957. although beset by a hard and difficult life and delilah be a balanced person of principle . and she have knowledge and on philosophical as well a practical way . she accept her place in society ( that be a personal choice and mind you ) and aim to make the best out of it . the world of big dream be not hers . her meeting another woman with the daring and the tenaciousness of a dye hard capitalist be and see in that context and a sort of an accident . this other woman discovers and exploit delilah knowledge and first on a small then on a very large scale . delilah value lead to commercial success and delilah portrait become literally a brand ( incidentally and a beautiful art deco design and not unlike uncle ben ) . she take success gracefully and although she do not really care about it . and she know and there will always be thing money can not buy and they most probably will determine your personal happiness . the daughter of the two single mother seem to symbolize the mean truth and that there be issue that be simply beyond a mother will and have to be leave to godly power . delilah daughter just want to be an airhead too ( that be a personal choice and mind you ) . she be most happy blending in with the anonymous general crowd of our modern time sell cigar in a store ( fredi washington best scene ) . there nothing her mother can do about it . minor spoiler ahead at the end of the movie and delilah dy and probably of a broken heart . the world of airhead be too much for that archaic type of good and motherly woman . she leave a vacuum behind and and people wistfully watch her stylized portrait eternally turn over flicker electric pancake on the huge billboard on a rooftop . this will forever be a truly modern movie .