romantic comedies of the '50s

 

     Does the expression "back-in-the-day" have to mean the 1970s?  Or can it mean anytime in the past?  I don't know...

     I've been playing, from the Internet, two romantic comedies --

Indiscreet, 1958 - from You Tube

and

Designing Woman, 1957 - from Amazon Prime.

     "Designing" is not to be confused with "Designing Women," plural, TV situation comedy from the '80s.  This 1957 movie is "Designing Woman," singular.

     Both films have beautiful colors -- Designing Woman-Cinemascope; Indiscreet-Technicolor.  And both are what you could call "frothy."  Silly and exuberant.  The kind of stories where some character or other might say, "Where have you been all my life?"  (Or -- "Why haven't I fallen in love with you yet?!"...)

Indiscreet stars Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.

Designing Woman, Lauren Bacall and Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird).

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