I Saw The Signs

I'm now watching this Jerome Kern bio flick on TCM and I'm only a third of the way through. Call me jaded. Call me cynical. But when I watched that scene where Kern is saying goodbye to little Sally Kessler, all kinds of probable Amber Alerts went up.

Now I'm not saying that the Kern character is a child predator. But when little Sally was sitting mighty close to Kern while he was waxing romantically melancholic about his missing her, I kinda felt this was an awkward way to advance the love narrative.

Maybe times were a lot more innocent back in the forties and I get it. But if that scene were filmed just like that today, the right wing mouth breathers would be having a "Show Boat" load of ridiculous apoplectic outrage LOL!!