This Charming Couple (Part 1 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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• Missouri
• Mizzou
• Stephens
• College
• Marriage
• Social
• guidance
• Gender
• roles

[EyeLean5280]

But seriously, I respect this little film.

Everyone involved was trying to make something honest and useful. The characters have a lot more to them than one usually sees in these public service shorts and since there isn't enough time to develop them fully through dialogue, the writer does find some clever ways to bring in narration that will fill in the blanks.

The problems in this relationship are prosaic and believable and could certainly wreck a marriage.

[melaniestevens]

I find today more creepy. The moral relativism, sleaze is "normal". Its sad

[platypus3456]

6:20

[rb62470]

"Are you insured, Ken? And does it cover accidental death, Ken? What about murder, Ken? If you were say, found dead, and the police determined it was murder but had no real viable suspects, would your insurance pay out?"

[misterhi123]

Now I know where the legion of doom gets those quotes from! for songs like dangerous business since 1979 and at your funeral for a friend!

[marvy1118]

Does Ken work at a gas station?

[xgoodbyemaddyx]

i watched this because of legion of doom too.its such a good song.. I ended up using the beginning of the song with the quote then looped the next couple of bars, and some of the text at the end of the film for some of my solo theatre peformance. it was cool. i can't count how many times the film made me laugh. so good. lol

[EyeLean5280]

I think the problem was their hairdos.