[lbo-talk] Doris Day and "Julie" (1956)

[Carrol Cox]

During the war the same issue of  a magazine wold contain one ad 
featureing the need for omen in wr plants (Rosie the riveter theme) and 
another ad, shoing a womanin a house dress, standing before an open 
refrigerator (no door storage in refrigerators before the war), and 
saying, "When my husband comes home I'm going to  show him the door." 
And you should look up what Aunt Molly Jackson has to say about the way 
her brother-in-law's song (Put that pistol down) was corrupted in a pop 
version of it in 1943. The valedictorian of my high school class (1947) 
stopped work (as a social worker) as soon as she married.

Carrol

On 10/21/2011 9:57 AM, Charles Turner wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Nathan S. wrote:
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>> If I'm not mistaken there was even a widespread sentiment about the need to encourage women to return to the home and have children because it was simply too dangerous to have them in factories/offices as part of that same campaign.
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> The most astounding artifact of this "sentiment" I've seen is the film _Julie_ from 1956, starring Louis Jourdain and Doris Day as a airline stewardess. A subplot of the film's climax has Doris working a flight whose pilot is too sick to land the plane. There's a anguished exchange between her and the man who's rescued her from Jourdain's control, because she hasn't the courage to take the controls. Her "rescuer" has to remind her that she was trained as a pilot during the war, and is their only hope for surviving a crash. A real portrait of powerlessness, and desire to discard the liberating aspects of the mobilization at home.
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