I saw that surprising discussion on another thread. Didn’t know what to make of it. Aren’t the dates confusing? Didn’t someone say the movie opened up in Chicago in 1959?
Stanley Dunham in Hawaii in 1959; Stanley Ann graduates from high school in 1960. That year (1960) Mother joins husband Stanley in Hawaii.
So we are to presume that after Stanley Ann graduated from high school in Washington, mother left for Hawaii to join husband Stanley, and Stanley Ann, having been accepted at U of C, migrated to Chicago to take a position as an au pair.
Parents allow this, even though Stanley had not ok’d the U of C. Seems to me that Stanley Ann’s employers would have to have been well known to her parents.
She works there for the summer and receives news from father that he will not allow her to go to U of C. She then joins parents in Hawaii. She was registered to go to U of Hawaii that year (1960) -— and is pregnant by November.
Even if movie showing in 1959 is a mistake (could it have run in Chicago theater for 6 mos to 1 yr?), the timing is very compressed.
Am I missing something?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/
Release date December 1959.
The book also states she says ‘I was only sixteen then...’
‘...just been accepted to the University of Chicago...’
Her Uncle, Madelyn’s brother, Charles T Payne was Deputy Director of the Library of the University of Chicago from 1960. He lived in Hyde Park. He was still there when Obama taught Law at the U of Ch.
Stanley Ann Dunham was born November 29, 1942.
I had mentioned the movie on the other thread.
“Black Orpheus” opened 12/1959.
I just checked the Chicago Tribune archives and while I don’t pay for articles, a search for “Black Orpheus” for the summer months of 1960, does come up with hits.
I think movies certainly did hang around in theaters for a much longer run time back then.