This Charming Couple (Part 2 of 2)

This Charming Couple (1950)

Marriage training film dramatizing a partnership too fraught with conflicts to survive. Produced as part of a post-World War II initiative to make marriages more sustainable in the face of postwar dislocation. An unusually literate, neo-realist film produced by a talented group of documentarians. A series of films based on the textbook "Marriage for Moderns," by Henry A. Bowman. Director: Willard Van Dyke. Writer: H. Partnow (pseudonym for blacklisted screenwriter Millard Lampell). Cameraman: Peter Glushanok. Editor: Aram Boyajian. Production Manager: Howard Turner. Producer: Irving Jacoby. With Ken McCannon (Ken) and Nancy Todd (Winnie). Produced on the campuses of Stephens College and the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., and in the surrounding country.

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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[EyeLean5280]

I know I'm supposed to say something flippant & witty & ironic. I live in so much more sophisticated a time & have read all the right books & seen all the right movies & hold all the right post-modern opinions.

But somehow I just don't feel like mocking this writer for falling so short of Eugene O'Neill, nor the actors for not coming close to being Catherine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson.

The characters are not just cut-outs & the story is told with remarkable honesty for a government film.

[dookerbaby]

"are you going to be nice again, ken? and we will never disagree about anything again? And you will never take me for granted?

keep dreaming honey

[candistyx]

@alanespinney I didn't get that at all from the film...

[luname82]

"each is a dream in the others mind,they don't want to accept eachother as they really are.They would rather change eachother to satisfy their own ambition" Lets face it too many couples becomes husbands and wifes under this delusion in 21st century as well.Our divorce rate is 50%!!this video may be cheesy and we may hate that it comes from the government(i know i do) but if we put our 21st century arrogance aside long enough we will see that it has a very true point.

[pacosaidso]

@Theaddictiveshowdied It's in both. Duh.

[kimmijo]

Insightful.

[Theaddictiveshowdied]

@xlukeox Correction - Dangerous Buisness Since 1979 by The Legion Of Doom

[lerrato]

They keep saying wildly irresponsible things.

[Chronobeanz]

My birthday is June 26!

Dun dun duuun.

[EyeLean5280]

Yes.