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All The Lonely People

Divorce Starts To Become A World Of Its Own, 1959 – 1964

Feb 11 •

Michael Weingrad

The Enigma of Rona Jaffe

Author of The Best of Everything

Jan 22 •

Michael Weingrad

The Myth of the 1950s (III)

Dec 26, 2023 •

Michael Weingrad

The Myth of the 1950s (II)

High Society and The Opposite Sex versus The Philadelphia Story and The Women.

Dec 13, 2023 •

Michael Weingrad

The Myth of the 1950s (I)

Teenage Rebel, Hilda Crane, and Phfft!--plus a couple of trips to Europe.

Dec 10, 2023 •

Michael Weingrad

Into the 1950s (2)

1930s champagne goes flat.

Nov 10, 2023 •

Michael Weingrad

Into the 1950s (1)

Marital anxieties and John Wayne as a single dad.

Oct 23, 2023 •

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Finishing the Forties

Wartime marriage and its fortunes after homecoming, with Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Gene Kelly, and Ronald Reagan.

Sep 15, 2023 •

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