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WHAT BECAME OF THE GIRLS?


The very last scene shows the girls waving goodbye to the boys who are back on their ship.
And then?
Well, I like to think that they drove to some diner in Hildy's cab for coffee and to chat about their experiences.
I can also imagine their writing to the boys and maybe keeping in touch with each other for a while.
But, eventually, they would have gone their separate ways, as they had nothing in common except their dates.
I imagine they may have met and married other men.

As to the boys' future, the movie IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER, seems to give a good description of how their feelings for each other may have changed (although, except for Gene Kelly, the cast was entirely different).

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It was a PG-rated war time (or actually post- war time) adventure, there was a lot of that kind of thing. Lots of single women, lots of single military men, hook up and have fun. Seize the day, you never know what tomorrow might bring. No grand love affairs, necessarily. The girls will always look back on those days with wistful fondness (married, living in the burbs perhaps) and the sailors who survived the war will muster out and make their own way through life. GI bill, or marry the girls they left behind, no shortage of options.

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PG for the film, but if his had really happened, even during wartime, when they went up to the apartment alone, I say that Hildy and Lucy Schmeeler woulda been taking turns slobbering on Sinatra's Bazooka-dick, and Lucy woulda...well I'll stop there since I'm sure this board has a lotta nice, PG-liking folks. Plus she'd already gargled.

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Seems pretty clear that Gabey and Ivy would eventually marry and go back to Indiana to live after Gabey's out of the service. Their connection was a lot deeper than wham bam thank you ma'am.

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More likely they'd move to.New York - I assume Ivy left Meadowville for a reason.

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