1962 Mad Men!


Doris Day = Peggy Olson
Rock Hudson = Don Draper
I think I'm going to write a dissertation comparing LCB & MM!

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I'm just a few minutes into the movie and I'm seeing a connection! I even thought Doris Day's office looked similar to Don's!

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After seeing this movie with a favorable cast, production year, and plot in TCM's listings and being a huge fan of Mad Men, I figured I'd give it a try. Well I'm now thoroughly convinced Mad Men has drawn a ton of influence from this movie.

Many have sung praises to Mad Men over the years for it's top notch authenticity of the time and place. Being born some 20 years removed from the era I've simply taken these people at their word and couldn't find any reason to disagree based on the few time-appropriate cultural artifacts I've gone out of my way to consume. But after viewing this film (and a pretty damn good sophisticated sex comedy it is) it's even more impressive at just how impeccably accurate Mad Men truly is. The offices, the attitudes, fashions, literally everything in this movie is reproduced down to a tee. The show is essentially a further refined, highly intricate version of Lover Come Back.

Does anybody know of other similar movies? This is great stuff.

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