The separate twin beds are so clever!
I love that they're using separate twin beds, just like what you'd expect from old films. Great idea.
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Yes, but that's not how it was in real life back then, and considering this is a true story, the twin beds is actually a pretty stupid idea.
sharethat's not how it was in real life back then
Actually, for some it was. My paternal grandparents slept in separate beds.
I do realize that censorship prevented same beds most of the time, but the fact remains that it was (and is) "real life" for many.
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Ha, yep, all my gandparents had single beds. I remember when I was a young child asking my mum why nan and grandad had seperate beds, she said something like it's just the way it was for older folk.
shareMy great-grandparents slept in twin beds from the thirties to the late eighties. Twin beds weren't invented for the movies. My grandparents actually had separate rooms because he snored.
shareWith the rising obesity epidemic in the US, snoring is also way up and and so are separate beds AFAICT. And now with the aging baby boomers, expect more of the same.
shareUp until way into the 1960s, that was the "decent" thing to do. Only perverts and French people slept together in one bed...
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you are wrong. In tv and movies they had seperate beds. REAL married people slept together for the most part, Mr and Mrs Hitchcock did not
shareNone of my granparents did. It was not uncommon to have seperate beds, but its not something everyone did.
shareSorry to burst your bubble, but my parents slept together in the same bed from the day they were married which was in 1940. They were neither perverts nor French and I'm pretty sure my grandparent did too if I remember right. It's all a matter of preference. Don't go by what TV and movies depicted in the 50's and 60's - it was controlled by the studios and censorship.
If you watch The Girl (2012) another movie about Hitchcock's life, you'll also notice the twin beds again. So, both movies are about Hitchcock and both movies seems accurate in some details, which is not a "pretty stupid idea" at all. And as told by another one, the use of twin beds was a very common sense for a long time in some places and during some decades 'till 60's or mid 70's. There are historical evidences and reasons for its use, google it.
shareWell my grandparents who are in their 90's still sleep in separate twin beds. That was the reality for many couples during that time period.
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Most people slept in separate beds back then. At least the adults that I knew. A great idea for getting a nite's sleep.
shareMy boyfriend and I used to share a king-sized bed, when we moved to another state, we each have our own apartments now!! I LOVE living by myself, still love him, but so much happier now.
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Actually, in traditional America twin beds were very normal.
shareMy Grand Mother slept in a single bed as well.....
Maybe because her husband had passed away.