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leftieNanner

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3. That was the very first video I ever bought

Reply to agingdem (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 26, 2020, 11:13 AM

Jun 2020

Had to special order it and I think I paid something like $25 for it.

She was definitely a liberal firebrand, but now that I have two adult daughters, I have changed my attitude about the way she was treated as a helpless female. Her attempts at employment during the depression were very funny (the switchboard operator scene is a crack up) but she was only successful when she was being funded and cared for by a man. Different times and different attitudes, for sure.

Peggy Cass was priceless too!

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Exposure is probably why jimfields33 Jun 2020 #1

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That was the very first video I ever bought leftieNanner Jun 2020 #3

and yet she was "before her time"... agingdem Jun 2020 #4

Oh she was! leftieNanner Jun 2020 #5

One of our favorite movies ... GeorgeGist Jun 2020 #6