Since the dawn of the movie business, Hollywood’s bread-and-butter has revolved around people’s idealized notions of love: The nerd can get the princess, and Cinderella can have it all. In other words, nothing else matters when two hearts are meant for each other. Real life is rarely like that, though. In 1950s Hollywood, accepted notions of love and partnership meant being… return to article
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