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

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maid was a rather simple affair between two young people in love with each other/' And in view of the fact that camera and its yeomen gave that romance a high degree of reality it wasn't at all necessary to apologize for the difference in social status. That difference constantly and vividly in evidence wasn't trying to fool anyone. However, those social bridges are so rarely crossed, perhaps all of us are overlooking something. The idea is, when the Cinderella formula becomes sensitive to the greater probabilities and makes a real effort to be as honest about their scripting as Seventh Heaven, Cinderella and Prince Charming will take on a new and far more palatable coloring for the audience, the captious as well as the credulous audience As for Cinderella's chances of ever again rating the popularity she once enjoyed, that is a brooding question. We cannot deny the world has passed through a seven-year drenching of reality that has left an odor of banana oil on every nostrum and ideal conceived by the imagination of man. With class immutabilities accentuated as never before in the history of human differences there should be no surprise if the audience looks with jaundiced eye when that little blonde nobody over in the notions assumes she has a chance with the assistant manager's son, let alone the millionaire playboy. In dramatizing the genius, the prodigy, the sweepstakes wrinner, the inheritance of millions or anything that actually happens as infrequently as those miracles do in real life, the producer's best bet is to glue cap and bells on the author's Magic Wand. And now what of Prince Charming, Santa Claus and Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp in the better movies ? They're as rare as a royal flush. In Ladies of the Big House, Prince Charming turned out to be a lonesome engineer with a Soviet contract in his pocket, a young man killing time in the big city until his boat left for Russia and Cindy was no naive or impoverished nobody. She operated a flower shop and she knew all the answers, as the engineer quickly learned when he tried to date her. What he wasn't aware of was a gangster threatening 99