In the 1934 film Imitation of Life, it stars Louise Beavers who plays Delilah Johnson, and Claudette Colbert who plays Beatrice Pullman or Ms. Bea. This film shows how the term coon was used, and how much it affected the African American community. Coon is a term that was used as a comic figure and was used to describe African Americans as slow, lazy, eye-servant, trifling, and many others. This film was used to show all Delilah was a coon, and the performances she used portrayed her of using poor English, and how less intelligent African Americans were. In the beginning of the film, Delilah was looking for work and ended up at the wrong house. She noticed that Ms. Bea needed help, and she wasn’t going to leave until she convinced her
