Posted on 07/07/2024 5:11:17 AM PDT by Twotone
That George Cukor's 1952 film The Marrying Kind begins in a divorce court should be something of a warning. But it wasn't enough of one for audiences back then who sat down to enjoy Judy Holliday in a comedy playing the lovable ditz she'd perfected in Adam's Rib and Born Yesterday and got something very different.
It actually begins at the Domestic Relations Court in Manhattan at Lexington and 22nd (now the administrative building for Baruch College) – a lovely bit of New Deal Art Deco architecture where a woman like Judge Anne B. Carroll (played by silent actress Madge Kennedy, who hadn't had a role onscreen since 1928) presides over failing marriages in the age before no-fault divorce.
On the docket is Florence Keefer (Holliday) and her husband Chet (Aldo Ray), who seem no different from the couples in the process of sundering Cukor shows us on the street outside the court, comically fighting and bickering. They want to call it quits on their marriage for no particular reason except that fighting is all they do; in the absence of an affair or bigamy, physical abuse or an illegitimate child, the judge sits them down and asks where they think it went wrong.
The U.S. divorce rate reached its high point in 1980, when we were told that it was statistically probable that half of all marriages would end in divorce.
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Bkmk
Judy Holliday was considered a genius, even though she played dumb blonde act.
Her role in born yesterday was hilarious.
Judy Holliday was a great actress who brought happiness to the ranks.
Today we look back on the times Hollywood portrayed to us with a large helping of nostalgia. It’s made bittersweet with the knowledge that our society will NEVER be even close to that portrayal.
Liberalism and leftism have brought us nothing but misery! The nation’s attitudes toward family, drugs and sex have brought us to a point of no return.
The election of President Trump may offer a bit of easement, but the nation will once again be turned over to the forces o darkness and despair. Our only hope is to fight vigorously for the elimination of drugs (ala Singapore) and the recognition of the fact that diversity has not served us well at all!
Quite alot of truth there, AB...
Always liked Aldo Ray. Yeah He had a drinking problem but he probably suffered from what we now know as PTSD.
He was very good in “We’re No Angels”.
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