Mrs Ford's first name
Isn't it interesting that she wasn't given one? That obviously means that her identity didn't matter.
shareYes, quite unusual it is.
shareThis bugged me even more after I posted this. She learns English comparatively quickly, we don't even hear her name mentioned in the courtroom, nor do we hear other characters call her by name.
This doesn't make any sense.
I guess she was supposed to represent all wives and the supposedly hellish burden upper-class men married to women who didn't work inside or outside the home had to bear back then. It seemed like a lot of whining to me. A bunch of middle-aged lotharios who wanted to stay playboys forever. I saw very few men in that film who looked under 40.
One could also say that it reflected the fact that married women had no identity of their own in those days either. I have to admit it bugged me too. I hope her foreign origin had nothing to do with it. My wife isn't from here either.