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Single American men of 1950's movies

posted 9 years ago by OswaldshotKennedy
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My wife was doing the ironing in the kitchen while watching some bloody ridiculous cookery programme on the telly, so I took the opportunity to view SOTI again after a years break from it. Anyway, the missus joined me in the living room after the film had been on an hour, and as usual, I heard her say, "You surely are not watching it AGAIN are you?" but she had brought some coffee and biscuits and joined me for twenty minutes.

Being a perceptive and intelligent woman, she remarked that it was very strange that all the American men in 1950's movies all seemed to be single, yet they are all handsome heterosexuals in their late 30's - 40's.
She has a point, my beloved wife, hasn't she?
Surely most men of the ages that the Charlton Heston, Robert Young and Thomas Mitchell characters were in the movie would surely have been married in that era. After all, most couples married very young during the war and soon after.

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[–] hobnob53 9 years ago

Well, I was born in the 1950s, and was a single American male for a goodly, or should I say ungodly, portion of my life, more or less through a combination of indolence and being too picky, plus I spent a lot of time trying to figure a way of boosting this gold sun thing off of some ignorant natives south of the border. All this despite being universally recognized as handsome, witty, intelligent, great, no, make that terrific, in bed, and being kind of what's that stuff about they be write good...oh, literate, y'know?

And what did my being a dashingly eligible heterosexual American male product of the 1950s, the most prosperous era in the most prosperous country in the history of the world, result in? I had to go to Britain to find a wife.

Americans are weird, Os. Tell your lovely and perspicacious wife how lucky she is to have you, not some crazy American -- just like in the movies!

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[–] OswaldshotKennedy 9 years ago

My missus already knows how lucky she is to have a stud like me as a hubby, hobby!

It was bloody marvellous to hear from you again, all the best to you and the Trouble and Strife in the New Year, hob.

The internet is for lonely people. People should live. Charlton Heston

[–] hobnob53 9 years ago

all the best to you and the Trouble and Strife in the New Year

Thanks, old pal, and will relate same to the T&S, though you'll excuse me if I abjure referring to her in those terms to her face, as I fear having a rolling pin bonked upon my head in response.

[–] OswaldshotKennedy 9 years ago

I got Brahms and Liszt over the Christmas hols, so I'm sticking to Rosy Lee for a few days hob.

The internet is for lonely people. People should live. Charlton Heston

[–] hobnob53 9 years ago

Thank God I have an in-house interpreter, easily yelled for up the apples-and-pears.

[–] James_Byrne 9 years ago

Oswald, my dad didn't get married until he was 47!

http://www.secretoftheincas.co.uk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSPcAyCgwE

[–] OswaldshotKennedy 9 years ago

Why, James, if you don't mind me asking?

That is very unusual for those times, isn't it?

The internet is for lonely people. People should live. Charlton Heston

[–] James_Byrne 9 years ago

The Irish are late developers, Os!

And yes, it was very unusual for those times. When I was at school in the 1950's I couldn't help noticing that my parents were much older than all the other children's parents. I'll tell you something though, they were both young at heart.

http://www.secretoftheincas.co.uk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSPcAyCgwE