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Post by mattgarth on Mar 24, 2018 0:34:18 GMT
Women entering the work force during World War II in defense plants (3 examples):
TENDER COMRADE -- Ginger Rogers SINCE YOU WENT AWAY -- Claudette Colbert SWING SWIFT -- Goldie Hawn
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Post by louise on Mar 24, 2018 20:17:12 GMT
Desk Set (1957) . ABout four reference librarians all very happy with their work. MIllions Like Us . ABout women working in a factory building bombers. For the Love of Mary. DEanna Durbin as a switchboard operator at the White House. No Time for Love. CLaudette Colbert as a photographer. TEacher's Pet. Doris Day as a teacher of journalism. the Farmer's Daughter. Loretta Young as a maid who is adopted by the Democrats as their candidate to run against her employer, a Republican. CArry On Nurse - nurses in a hospital. Seems Like Old Times. Goldie Hawn as a lawyer. Front Page Woman (1935) Bette Davis as a newspaper reporter The Devil and Miss Jones. JEan Arthur as a sales clerk in a large department store. The Good Fairy. MArgaet Sullavan as a cinema usherette. Things Are Looking Up. CEcily Courtneidge as a schoolteacher and her identical twin sister, a circus performer.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Mar 25, 2018 1:54:11 GMT
Secretary (2002).
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 25, 2018 2:04:44 GMT
In The Traveling Saleslady (1935), Joan Blondell, peeved when her father won’t give her a job in his toothpaste company, forms her own rival brand and becomes a success. I expected her to have to give it all up at the end, but she doesn’t. This is almost revolutionary. Glenda Farrell and Joan Blondell (the two fastest talking dames in classic film) in The Traveling Saleslady Seven years later, though, Joan Crawford was giving up her job as a CEO in They All Kissed The Bride (1942) because Melvyn Douglas wants her to “start acting like a girl.” They All Kissed The Bride
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 25, 2018 3:31:44 GMT
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN. Grace Zabriskie and Debra Winger are mother and daughter factory workers. Debra dreams of a better life. Grace has given up hope.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 25, 2018 3:41:37 GMT
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN. Grace Zabriskie and Debra Winger are mother and daughter factory workers. Debra dreams of a better life. Grace has given up hope. David Lynch and Wes Craven called her 'Amazing Grace'.
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 25, 2018 14:36:40 GMT
Some Meryl Streep favorites: Silkwood (1983), plutonium plant worker Out of Africa (1985), plantation owner Music of the Heart (1999), music teacher (directed by Wes Craven, petrolino; go figure) The Devil Wears Prada (2006), fashion magazine editor, boss of Anne Hathaway
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 25, 2018 17:11:46 GMT
Doris Day has been mentioned in passing, by way of her Teacher's Pet journalism professor, but in addition to an array of entertainers, she amassed a respectable group of working women roles:
Julie (1956) - Flight attendant
The Pajama Game (1957) - Garment factory worker
It Happened To Jane (1959) - Lobster...what? Farmer? Wrangler? Well, she runs a lobster business.
Pillow Talk (1959) - Interior decorator
Lover Come Back (1961) - Ad agency exec
The Thrill Of It All (1963) - Soap company pitchwoman (and the conflict between the responsibilities of work and home is the crux of the plot).
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) - NASA public relations (and part-time "mermaid" for her father's glass-bottom tour boat).
Caprice (1967) - Corporate spy
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968) Owns/runs lumber business
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 25, 2018 17:44:56 GMT
Jackie Brown (flight attendant)
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 26, 2018 2:02:08 GMT
Doris Day has been mentioned in passing, by way of her Teacher's Pet journalism professor, but in addition to an array of entertainers, she amassed a respectable group of working women roles: Julie (1956) - Flight attendant The Pajama Game (1957) - Garment factory worker It Happened To Jane (1959) - Lobster...what? Farmer? Wrangler? Well, she runs a lobster business. Pillow Talk (1959) - Interior decorator Lover Come Back (1961) - Ad agency exec The Thrill Of It All (1963) - Soap company pitchwoman (and the conflict between the responsibilities of work and home is the crux of the plot). The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) - NASA public relations (and part-time "mermaid" for her father's glass-bottom tour boat). Caprice (1967) - Corporate spy With Six You Get Eggroll (1968) Owns/runs lumber business I was waiting for someone to get to Doris Day in depth, doghouse. I love her, though I confess my favorites of her films are mostly pre-1960s. But it's certainly true that she was a busy working woman in so many of her films. Of those you mention, I'm particularly fond of It Happened to Jane, The Thrill of it All, and Teacher's Pet. Two others that I really love are films in which she plays singers: Young Man with a Horn and Love Me Or Leave Me. And I haven't seen Pajama Game yet, but I'm sure I'd like that, too. I love it when she sings. in. What a voice! Ans she's a rancher in the old West in The Ballad of Josie (1967).
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 27, 2018 0:01:13 GMT
Doris Day has been mentioned in passing, by way of her Teacher's Pet journalism professor, but in addition to an array of entertainers, she amassed a respectable group of working women roles: Julie (1956) - Flight attendant The Pajama Game (1957) - Garment factory worker It Happened To Jane (1959) - Lobster...what? Farmer? Wrangler? Well, she runs a lobster business. Pillow Talk (1959) - Interior decorator Lover Come Back (1961) - Ad agency exec The Thrill Of It All (1963) - Soap company pitchwoman (and the conflict between the responsibilities of work and home is the crux of the plot). The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) - NASA public relations (and part-time "mermaid" for her father's glass-bottom tour boat). Caprice (1967) - Corporate spy With Six You Get Eggroll (1968) Owns/runs lumber business I was waiting for someone to get to Doris Day in depth, doghouse. I love her, though I confess my favorites of her films are mostly pre-1960s. But it's certainly true that she was a busy working woman in so many of her films. Of those you mention, I'm particularly fond of It Happened to Jane, The Thrill of it All, and Teacher's Pet. Two others that I really love are films in which she plays singers: Young Man with a Horn and Love Me Or Leave Me. I haven't seen Pajama Game yet, but I'm sure I'd like that, too. I love it when she sings. in. What a voice! When you figure in the singers and/or actresses she played, her "professional woman" roles comprise at least half of her feature film appearances (her TV series too).
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 27, 2018 0:21:33 GMT
When you figure in the singers and/or actresses she played, her "professional woman" roles comprise at least half of her feature film appearances (her TV series too). Oh, so true! I'll add that in her "domestic" roles such as Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Thrill Of It All and With Six You Get Eggroll, for instance, there was never a more convincing screen "mom:" her interactions with onscreen offspring from toddlers to teenagers - a combination of patience, eye-rolling exasperation and it's-all-in-the-game resignation (along with the occasional pressure-cooker outburst) - rang 100% true. Perhaps that's especially so for me because she reminded me so much of my own mother: a naturally-freckled redhead who went blonde and retained a nearly-relentless, sunny optimism (in spite of those occasional but usually comic outbursts), and who happened to have a lovely singing voice, to boot.
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