Linda J. Alexander http://www.lindajalexander.net
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Glenda:
Here are some links to read about the "communist influence" in "It's A Wonderful Life" & other films of that era. The 1st has a visual of an actual document created by the FBI:
http://www.paperlessarchives.com/compic.html
http://server1.fandm.edu/departments/CollegeRelations/PressReleases/1997-98/PR075.html
http://www.epinions.com/content_128656576132
There are many, many more. It was a scary time in Hollywood. Something appearing so innocent, w/depth created from the humanity of the story, was dissected from the bottom up; more sinister minds had other interpretations.
I've always had a far-reaching fascination w/films of the "Golden Era." I'm too young to have seen them as 1st runs -- I was born in the mid-'50s -- but I can recall, even as a child, adoring those black & whites & getting lost in them.
I think, for me, it was the attention to detail, the allowance for my imagination as the viewer, as opposed to how it is so often today -- blatantly laying it all out & leaving nothing for me to interpret my own way.
Also, it was the glamour. My, we can't even get close to that these days! They weren't blatant in their romance, so they had to use eyes, hands, movement, vocal inflections, & words to relay passion -- & that still is always SO much more erotic & romantic, to my way of thinking, than the coarse "laying it out" way of today.
What you say about activists is much the same as I was trying to relate about the pop singer who testified about logging in Kentucky. There just is no buy-in w/a character like that. Even if he's sincere, the platform, w/him on it, turns out to be all for show.
Blessings -- Linda
Linda J. Alexander, Books For The Thinking Reader
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