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A hundred million movie-goers must be right... (1938)

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iety pictures very neatly that particular deficiency in scripting: "The marriage of the rich young man to his mother's servant girl is not nearly as shocking as the synthetic situations and overstressed plight of the boy and girl would have it appear. The point overlooked entirely by the authors is that if there were more servant girls like Loretta Young, home would not only be sweet but also hot. "The dialog bends itself into knots pointing out the fact that there is a profound difference between a millionaire and a maid, and then after making a serious problem of it, turns around and seeks to solve and salve with a courtroom twist and hammock finish that lack both reason and conviction. The marriage is a rather simple affair between two young people who love each other and not badly written or conceived but the complications quickly get under way and crab the works. There's a despicable butler who exacts kickbacks from the help and who tries to put the grab on the new household looker, and the family opposition to the marriage and the framing of the girl for annulment purposes and the baby. And this time the baby is legit." Why is it when the situation is reversed, when Princess Charming drags home the poor but honest hero and he refuses financial or any other kind of help there are no explanations? Is there anyone who doesn't know the answer? If there is let him come up before the class and have his nose knuckled. Very good, then. If the girl starred as a millionairess or Princess Charming was a type who could admire a man who accepted help from a woman and the man featured along with her was the type that accepts help from a woman, the audience wouldn't care very much for either. Not that men do not or should not accept help from women. If there is an honest and sufficient reason for doing so, they should, and as long as that condition is satisfied or self-evident, neither the writer, director nor the actors need feel uncomfortable about Miss Somebody marrying Mr. Nobody. And that applies as well to Mr. Somebody who loves a servant. As Bige said: 'The marriage of a millionaire to a 98