Are You Ready for Marriage? (1950) Part Two

[Whitney3797]

Yeah, yeah, send them off to college together and in less than a year she will be calling home saying she is 2 months preggers. So long college, hello assembly line (diaper and manufacturing!)

[50zcarsman]

This is a darned good film -- with a message as fully as applicable today as it was then. After WWII, the average marryin' age for white working- and lower-middle-class women was 19, IIRC, and some got hitched as young as 16 (14 wasn't unheard-of in Appalachia). Middle class+ tended to delay until a couple of years of higher ed were achieved. With less labor-saving gear and old-fashioned notions about putting in 8 for 8's pay, and little social safety net, a young couple could have it tough.

[eldar600]

these 1950's educational movies are good !

[eldar600]

wow i like the physiological chart ! something to think about 

[gustafsg]

This surprises me, I thought that everyone was for young marriage back then...

[CarissaXo99]

I don't think those two have enough BOING....

[junkboxxxxxx]

In the meantime Larry, use your left hand to make yourself go BOINGGG

[ThatSmartHotGuy]

These kids are so stupid. I feel embarrassed for them

[heavym3tal]

@ThatSmartHotGuy Did you tell that to your invisible wife?

[toyrocketastronaut]

Today's relationships suck in comparison, I think they got it right back then.

[fluorescentfrank]

NOW I  SEE ............

[eldud00]

Such a cheesy film, but very very logically correct. They make things so simple and fake, but who am I to talk sense this was in the past not like todays relationships. Same problems different title.

[YippieKiAye]

"It doesn't take an engineer to realise we're on the bad side of that graph!" :D

[seraphim196]

despite this is from the 50's it's spot on. What is the rush to get married when you're young and be married after only a year of engagement?? I agree that longer engagements to figure out the ups and downs of a relationship will end up in a longer marriage. I mean why become in debt from a wedding at the age of 20? Use that money for school, traveling, for being 20!

[theboombody]

@seraphim196 But when I was 20 I didn't do anything except go to the gym. And I don't even do that anymore.

[kimmariebimmarie]

Maybe if people actually took it slow nowadays they might actually end up staying married!

[nebslie]

"Consider how often you think about yourself, and What *I* Want..." * zoom in on the woman*

[IwillKillYourCereal]

the average marrying age for women was about 20-21 in the 50's

[megaswenson]

Well, at least they're telling kids to marry their own race, religion, and social class (in a roundabout kinda way). Even then, I guess they couldn't come right out and say that, no matter how important it really is.

[HayateAce]

BOING!

[nothingisfree]

I'd only been with my husband for a year and a half before we got married. ...Boing?

[astroman123]

those graphs are really scientific!

[metalcagirl]

ah i miss this values

[Salamon2]

I'll agree that the idea of longer engagements sounds like a better idea than the "boing" that goes on nowadays.

[MelanieLouM]

Sue went to State U, met a "James Dean" type of guy while she was there...left Larry and lived life on the wild side...Larry died a lonely, bitter old man! ^_^

[petfaxmachine]

I was engaged for 2.5 years, and I thought that was ridiculously long. I guess that was the norm back then?

[kwolf002]

notice they zoom in on the girl when mentioning the depersonalization

[Salamon2]

Well she's the one actually taking the thought seriously. Larry, is just staring blankly and the thought isn't really registering--which in and of itself says a lot.

[quoidanslemondequoi]

@kwolf002 Seriously. Misogynist propaganda anyone?