If I thought I was sick of high society romances I found the only thing worse: a state fair romance. And still, whether it's the city or the country, high society or working class, people fall in love in hours if not minutes in 1930s Hollywood films.
I still have to get used to the term "making love." Now it most definitely means sex while back then it meant as much as kissing to as little as sweet talking.
In the movie "State Fair" the Frake family attended the annual state fair. Paw (Will Rogers) was entering a hog to compete for a blue ribbon. Maw (Louise Dresser) was entering her pickles and mince meat into a competition for whatever prize they issue for that. The kids, Margy (Janet Gaynor) and Wayne (Norman Foster), were along for the ride.
While the parents busied themselves with fair business Margy and Wayne found love. They found two mates who were unlike them. While Margy and Wayne were sheltered, unworldly, innocent country folks, the mates they found were the total opposite. And as they say, opposites attract. Wayne fell in love with Emily (Sally Eilers) while Margy fell in love with Pat Gilbert (Lew Ayres). They were anything but romantic. It actually seemed perverse to me. I envisioned Pat and Emily as prowlers looking for the most innocent prey they can find just to satisfy some perverse curiosity or to add them to a list of conquests. It was a romance movie so it didn't turn out that way, but I still saw it as such.
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I still have to get used to the term "making love." Now it most definitely means sex while back then it meant as much as kissing to as little as sweet talking.
In the movie "State Fair" the Frake family attended the annual state fair. Paw (Will Rogers) was entering a hog to compete for a blue ribbon. Maw (Louise Dresser) was entering her pickles and mince meat into a competition for whatever prize they issue for that. The kids, Margy (Janet Gaynor) and Wayne (Norman Foster), were along for the ride.
While the parents busied themselves with fair business Margy and Wayne found love. They found two mates who were unlike them. While Margy and Wayne were sheltered, unworldly, innocent country folks, the mates they found were the total opposite. And as they say, opposites attract. Wayne fell in love with Emily (Sally Eilers) while Margy fell in love with Pat Gilbert (Lew Ayres). They were anything but romantic. It actually seemed perverse to me. I envisioned Pat and Emily as prowlers looking for the most innocent prey they can find just to satisfy some perverse curiosity or to add them to a list of conquests. It was a romance movie so it didn't turn out that way, but I still saw it as such.
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