OK, I'm watching this right now on satellite, and Jean Seberg just married Lee Marvin. Right before that, when Marvin first sees her she's nursing a baby, and you figure it's hers, but after they get married, the baby disappears. Did I miss sommething? Was it explained somewhere what happened to it?
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Anyway, Jean Seabergs character, Elizabeth, showed up with her Morman husband and his other wife. The baby belogned to the other wife, Elizabeth had a baby also but it had died two weeks prior. When they decided to bid on Elizabeth, she was told to stay in the room and feed the baby while they all went on outside.
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and also a dingo ate it.
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What a dag dern minute...the baby has to be Elizabeth's because she give birth to it.
I don't know why it should belong to the "other" wife.
The woman who gave birth should have the baby, that's it.
No, Elizabeth did not give birth to it. The other Mormon wife did.
Both Mormon wives (Elizabeth was one of them ) had babies around the same time. Two weeks before they got to No Name City, Elizabeth's baby died. Hence her demoted status - she walked while the husband and the other wife that still had a live baby rode.
But a woman doesn't stop making milk right away just because her baby has died. So the husband let both of his wives nurse the other wife's baby. It was probably helping Elizabeth dry up her milk, by weaning slowly instead of just stopping when her baby died.
So the baby did go off with its real mother - the other Mormon wife - once the Mormon accepted Ben Rumson's price for Elizabeth.
With two husbands, I wonder why Elizabeth didn't get pregnant, as she had had a baby before. I mean, wouldn't that increase the odds? Ben was old, so maybe not with him (statistically speaking, it would've been less likely), but what about Pardner?
Also, it would've made for an interesting subplot. Who's the father? What would the parson say? :p
It has been a long time since you posted this, and and even longer time since I was a nursing mother. (my "baby" is now 16)
As I recall, it can take as much as 6 months from the last time a mother nurses her child until her period returns. Of course, one should not count on this if you wish to avoid pregnancy. As the Dr who delivered my second child told me, he had a brother and sister who were less than a year apart. I know his parents were missionaries, though uncertain if the babies in question were conceived during that time.
But I digress...
Also, I dont think the time frame of the movie was long enough that a pregnancy would have been thought to be confirmed, both in the period setting of the film. and in the time setting of the filming.
I do agree, though,
it would make for an interesting sub-plot or plot for a sequel.
More specifically, when Elizabeth comes out of the structure to see who won the bid, the Mormon husband is behind her carrying the baby. It's not edited very well there because immediately before we see the husband with the other wife on the speakers platform during the bidding.
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