But she talks about how some guys are jerks in the beginning of the movie. So, Mrs. Walker is a divorcee, huh? Scandalous!
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
Seems to me this film was a bit ahead of its time (admirably so).
It presented a divorced woman in a sympathetic light at a time when there was still considerable stigma attached to divorce, and treated a working woman matter-of-factly. Doris is given a considerable amount of respect by her co-workers and colleagues, and not one of her male co-workers seemed to bristle at the idea of working with a woman. Plus, there's no hint at the end that she'll give up her job when she marries Fred--just commute. (Probably sharing the ride with her new hubby.)
True, true.
It's just that I - like everyone - have seen this movie a billion times and I never, ever picked up on this. I wonder if everyone in 1947 made the exact same assumption about the War that I did. How many people missed this back then? How many people still haven't gotten this now?
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Uhh, Susan explicitly tells Kris that her mother and father were divorced around the time she was born and that she never met her father--no assumptions needed. Anyone who watched the movie would learn that Doris was a divorced woman--the script says so!
shareWhoops! You're absolutely right. It's obviously all that acid I dropped in the sixties coming back to haunt me decades later.
I usually tune in later, so I usually miss that part where they're watching the parade. Sorry!
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Heck, anyone who has seen any Maureen O'Hara movies KNOWS her character is a strong, independent woman...
shareInteresting note in the Trivia - I'm guessing people would have been made aware of it in 1947 it's just us later television viewers who assume the husband didn't come back from the war.
Trivia: Received a 'B' rating (morally objectionable in part) from the highly influential Legion of Decency because Maureen O'Hara played a divorcée.
That - bunch - were ENTIRELY objectionable!
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