Motion Picture, 1.1n
Motion Picture News
Move Over, Darling, 2.1n
Movie Mirror
Moyers, Bill
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and n, 3.1
Mr. and Mrs. North, 2.1n
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), 2.1, 3.1n
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005), 3.1, 3.2 and n, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, 2.1 and n, 2.2, 3.1
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Mom
Mr. Skeffington, 2.1n
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 2.1 and n
Mrs. Mike
Mrs. Miniver, itr.1, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3
murder, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9n, 3.1; film noir, 2.10; Gaslight, 2.11, 2.12; gothic, 2.13; Julie, 2.14, 2.15; money and, 2.16, 2.17; of 1960s, 3.2; of 1990s, 3.3; postwar, 2.18n; Rebecca, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21; Sudden Fear, 2.22, 2.23, 2.24; Sunrise, 2.25, 2.26, 2.27; Suspicion, 2.28, 2.29; of 2000s–2010s, 3.4, 3.5; of wife, 2.30
Murder Man, The, 2.1n
Muriel’s Wedding
Murphy, Audie, n
Murphy, Brittany, n
Murray, James
musical improvisation
musicals, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and n, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6n, 2.7 and n, 2.8; marital incompatibility and, 2.9, 2.10; of 1950s, 2.11; wartime, 2.12, 2.13 and n; see also specific films and shows
Music for Millions
music videos, n
My American Wife
My Best Friend’s Wedding
My Cousin Rachel, 2.1n
My Darling Clementine
My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Wife, itr.1n, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and n
My Life with Caroline
My Little Chickadee
My Man Godfrey
mystery, marriage as, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
My Three Sons, 2.1n
My True Story, 2.1n
My Wife’s Best Friend, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
My Wife’s Relations, 1.1
narratage, n–7n
Nazism, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3
Neal, Patricia, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n
Negri, Pola, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Nelson, David
Nelson, Harriet
Nelson, Ozzie, 2.1, 2.2 and n
Nelson, Ricky, and n
Nelson, Willie
Never a Dull Moment
Newlyweds
Newman, Paul, 2.1n, 2.2; in From the Terrace, 2.3; in Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; in Rally ’Round the Flag, Boys, 2.7, 2.8; Woodward and, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11
New York, New York, 2.1, 3.1
New York City, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
New Yorker, 3.1n
New York Times, The, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1
New York Times Sunday Magazine, 3.1n, 3.2, 3.3
Next Time I Marry, 2.1n
Nicholson, Jack, 3.1; in Heartburn, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
nightclubs, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2
Night to Remember, A, 2.1n
Ninotchka, 2.1n
No Down Payment, 2.1n, 2.2, 3.1
No Man of Her Own, 2.1 and n, 2.2
No Marriage Ties
no-name stars
noncommunication problem
Nora Prentiss
Normand, Mabel, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1
No Room for the Groom, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n
Norton, Edward, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Norworth, Jack, n
No Sad Songs for Me, 2.1n
Not with My Wife, You Don’t!
Novak, Kim, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and n, 3.1
nuclear couple, 3.1; Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 3.2 and n, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5; The War of the Roses, 3.6, 3.7
nuclear weapons
Nugent, Elliott
Oakie, Jack
O’Brien, Dave
O’Brien, Edmund, n
O’Brien, George, 1.1, 2.1; in Sunrise, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
O’Brien, Margaret
O’Brien, Pat, n
obsession
O’Connell, Evan: Mr. Bridge, 2.1; Mrs. Bridge, 2.2
Odd Couple, The
O’Donnell, Cathy, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
Office of War Information, and n
O’Hara, Catherine
O’Hara, John
O’Hara, Maureen, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6n, 2.7
Old Wives for New
Oliver, Edna May
Olivier, Laurence, 2.1, 2.2; in Rebecca, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Olsen, Christopher, 2.1, 2.2
O’Neal, Ryan
One Foot in Heaven, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3, 2.4
One More River, 2.1n
One More Tomorrow
One Week
On Golden Pond, 3.1n
Only You
“Oops! We’re not really married” films, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1n
Orchestra Wives
Orient, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1; in Painted Veil films, 2.2; silent-film era, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7
Original Sin
Osborne, Vivienne
O’Sullivan, Maureen, 2.1, 2.2
Our Betters, 2.1, 3.1
Our Gang comedies
Our Modern Maidens
Our Town, 2.1n
Ouspenskaya, Maria, 2.1, 2.2
Outsider, The
Overboard
Over 21, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3 and n, 2.4, 2.5
Owens, Patricia, n
Ozu, Yasujiro, 2.1, 2.2
Paige, Janis
Page, Anita
Painted Veil, The (1934), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1; see also Seventh Sin, The
Painted Veil, The (2006), 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; see also Seventh Sin, The
Palance, Jack, 2.1, 2.2
Palmer, Lilli, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Panama Hattie
Panthea
Paramount, n
Parent Trap, The, 2.1, 2.2
Paris, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Paris Model
Parker, Cecilia
Parker, Eleanor, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; in The Seventh Sin, 2.7, 2.8; in The Very Thought of You, 2.9, 2.10
Parker, Suzy
Parker-Pope, Tara, The Happy Marriage Is the “Me” Marriage
Partridge Family, The
Passing Parade series
Passionate Friends, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Pat and Mike, 2.1n, 2.2n, 2.3
Patrick, Gail, 2.1, 2.2
Payment on Demand, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Peale, Norman Vincent, n
Pearl Harbor, bombing of
Peck, Gregory, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Penelope
Penny Serenade, itr.1, 2.1 and n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
People Will Talk
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, itr.1n
perfect mate, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Perfect Murder, A
Perils of Pauline, The, 2.1n
Pesci, Joe
Peters, Jean, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3
Petersen, Paul
Pete Smith Specialties, and n
Petulia
Pfeiffer, Michelle, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Phffft, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3
Philadelphia Story, The, 2.1, 2.2n
Phil Harris—Alice Faye Show, The
Photoplay, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 2.1
Pichel, Irving, 1.1, 1.2
Pickford, Mary, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Pidgeon, Walter, itr.1, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3; Garson and, 2.4 and n, 2.5, 2.6n
Pillow to Post, 2.1n–7n
Pinter, Harold
Pitfall, itr.1, 2.1n
Pitt, Brad, 3.1, 3.2; in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Pitts, Zasu, n
plane crash
Platinum Blonde
Playboy, 2.1, 2.2
Play Misty for Me
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 2.1n
Plough and the Stars, The
Plummer, Christopher, n
Poitier, Sidney
politics, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2; advertising and, 2.3 and n
&nb
sp; Post, William, n
postwar films, 2.1, 2.2; The Best Years of Our Lives, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; box office, 2.6; comedy, 2.7; Dear Wife, 2.8; divorce, 2.9, 2.10; film noir, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13n; Full of Life, 2.14, 2.15; husband returns home, 2.16; The Impatient Years, 2.17, 2.18; Janie Gets Married, 2.19; media influence and, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22; of 1950s, 2.23; Phffft, 2.24, 2.25; programmers, 2.26, 2.27; social awareness, 2.28; Vacation from Marriage, 2.29; see also specific films
poverty, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Powell, Jane
Powell, William, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5n; in Thin Man series, col1.1, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9
Power, Tyrone, 2.1, 2.2
Power and the Glory, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Preacher’s Wife, The
pregnancy, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12; in Full of Life, 2.13; on I Love Lucy, 2.14n, 2.15; of 1950s, 2.16 and n, 2.17 and n, 2.18; of 1980s, 3.1; postwar baby boom, 2.19; of 2000s–2010s, 3.2
President’s Lady, The
Preston, Robert, 2.1, 2.2
Price, Vincent
Pride of the Marines
Primitive Lover, The
Primrose Path, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Prisoner of Zenda, The
Private Life of Henry VIII, The
Prizzi’s Honor
problems, 2.1; addiction, 2.2; class differences, 2.3; communication, 2.4; competition, 2.5; control, 2.6; in foreign films, 2.7; incompatibility, 2.8; infidelity and adultery, 2.9; in-laws and children, 2.10; lonely war wife, 2.11; money, 2.12; murder, 2.13; of 1950s, 2.14; of 1960s, 3.1; of 1970s, 3.2; of 1980s, 3.3, 3.4; of 1990s, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7; nuclear couple, 3.8; postwar, 2.15; TV sitcom, 2.16n, 2.17; of 2000s–2010s, 3.9, 3.10; wartime, 2.18; weddings, 3.11
Production Code, 2.1, 2.2; infidelity and, 2.3; see also specific actors, films, problems, and shows
programmer marriage films, 2.1, 2.2; connection to TV sitcoms, 2.3
Proposal, The, 2.1n
Prosperity, 2.1n
prostitutes, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Prouty, Jed
pseudo-married couples
Public Enemy, The
Pumpkin Eater, The
pure marriage films, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; Made for Each Other, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10; “Oops!” films, 2.11; “realistic”, 2.12; Two for the Road, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15 and n; vignette, 2.16; without-love marriage, 2.17; “yoo-hoo” films, 2.18
Quaid, Dennis, 3.1, 3.2
race relations, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1n, 3.1; of 1960s, 2.2, 2.3, 3.2, 3.3; of 1990s, 3.4; postwar, 2.4n
Rachel and the Stranger, itr.1, 2.1n
Rachel Gets Married, 3.1n
radio, 2.1, 2.2; comedy featuring married couples, 2.3; TV sitcom and, 2.4n
rags-to-riches films
Rainer, Luise
Rains, Claude, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Rally ’Round the Flag, Boys, 2.1, 3.1
Rambeau, Marjorie, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Rand, Ayn, The Fountainhead
Randall, Tony
Random Harvest, 2.1n
Rasputin and the Empress
Rathbone, Basil, 2.1, 2.2
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
Ray, Aldo, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and n, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
Ray, Nicholas
Raymond, Gene, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3, 2.4
“realistic” marriage films, 2.1; Made for Each Other, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and n; Two for the Road, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10; We Who Are Young, 2.11
“realistic” television shows
Real McCoys, The
Rebecca, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Reckless Moment, 2.1n–60n
Redford, Robert, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1; in The Way We Were, 2.4
Reed, Donna, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1; in The Donna Reed Show, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Reeve, Christopher, n
Reflections in a Golden Eye
religious marriage
Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker, The, 2.1n
remarriage, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Remick, Lee, 2.1, 2.2
Renoir, Jean, 2.1, 2.2
repeating characters, n
Restless Wives
Reversal of Fortune
reviews, itr.1, 1.1n, 2.1, 3.1; see also specific critics and publications
Revolutionary Road, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Reynolds, Debbie, 2.1n; in Divorce American Style, 3.1
Reynolds, Joyce
Reynolds, Ryan, n
Rice, Florence, n
Rich and Strange
Richards, Ann, n
Richardson, Ralph
Rigg, Diana
ring, wedding, and n
Ringer, 2.1n
Ringwald, Molly
Rio Grande
Riskin, Robert
Ritter, Thelma, 2.1, 2.2
RKO, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Road to Singapore, itr.1 and n
Robards, Jason
Roberts, Doris, n
Rockwell, Norman, n
Rogers, Ginger, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1; Astaire and, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13 and n, 2.14n, 2.15, 2.16; in The Barkleys of Broadway, 2.17 and n, 2.18; in Primrose Path, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21; in Tender Comrade, 2.22; in Vivacious Lady, 2.23, 2.24
Romance on the High Seas
romantic comedy, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 1.1 and n, 2.1 and n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1; bickering, 2.6; modern, 2.7n; of 1930s, 2.8n; nuclear marriage, 3.2; “Oops!” films, 2.9; postwar, 2.10, 2.11; silent era, 1.2 and n, 1.3, 1.4; without-love marriage, 2.12; see also comedy; specific films and shows
“romcoms”, 2.1n, 2.2, 3.1
Rome
Rooney, Mickey, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 2.1, 2.2
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roseanna McCoy
Roseanne, 3.1, 3.2
Rosemary’s Baby
Rosie the Riveter, 2.1, 2.2 and n
Rossellini, Roberto
Roth, Lillian
Rowlands, Gena
Runaway Bride, 3.1, 3.2
runaway brides, 3.1, 3.2 and n, 3.3
Rush, Barbara, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Russell, Harold
Russell, Jane, n
Russell, Rosalind, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3n
Russell, Theresa
Rutherford, Ann, n
Ruthless People
Ryan, Robert
Sabotage
Saburi, Shin
Sachs, Ira
Sally, Irene and Mary
Same Time, Next Year
Sanders, George, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Sandpiper, The, 2.1n, 3.1
San Francisco, 2.1n
Saturday Evening Post, 2.1n
Saturday’s Hero, 2.1n
Savage, Dan
Sayonara, 2.1n
Scarlet Empress, The
Scenes from a Marriage, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1
Schatz, Thomas
Schreiber, Live, 2.1, 2.2
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Scorsese, Martin
Scott, George C.
Scott, Lizabeth, n
Scott, Martha, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Scott, Randolph, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Scott, Zachary, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Screen Guide
screenplay, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
screwball comedy, itr.1, itr.2n, itr.3, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6n, 2.7n, 3.1; modern, 3.2; see also comedy
Sea of Grass, The, 2.1, 2.2
Searching Wind, The, 2.1n
Secret Heart, The, 2.1, 2.2n
Secrets (1924), 1.1, 2.1n
Secrets (1933), 2.1 and n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Seems Like Old Times
Seinfeld, Jerry, n
Send Me No Flowers, 2.1n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Sennett, Mack
Sentimental Journey, 2.1n
Separation, A, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
series films, 2.1, 2.2 and n; Blondie, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.1n; Jones family, 2.10, 2.11 and n, 2.12, 2.13; Kettle series, 2.14, 2.15, 2
.16, 2.17, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20; repeating characters, 2.21n; Tarzan, 2.22, 2.23, 2.24, 2.25n, 2.26n, 3.2n; Thin Man, 2.27, 2.28, 2.29, 2.30; weekly, 2.31n
Seven Days’ Leave, 2.1n
Seventh Sin, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; see also Painted Veil, The (both 1934 and 2006)
sex, itr.1n, itr.2n, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; bickering, 2.7; chemistry, 2.8; children as interference, 2.9; gay, 3.1n, 3.2n, 3.3n, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6; infidelity, 2.10; interrupted, 2.11, 2.12; lesbian, 3.7; of 1960s, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11; of 1970s, 3.12; of 1980s, 3.13, 3.14; of 1990s, 3.15; nuclear marriage, 3.16; “Oops!” films, 2.13; postwar, 2.14, 2.15; pure marriage films, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18; sexless couple, 2.19; silent era, 1.1, 1.2; of 2000s–2010s, 3.17, 3.18, 3.19, 3.20; war and, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22, 2.23, 2.24, 2.25; “without-love” scenario, 2.26
Sex and the City, 3.1 and n
Sexual Revolution, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2
Shakespeare, William, Othello
Shall We Dance?
Shapiro, Dana Adam
Sharp, Margery, Britannia Mews
Sheedy, Ally
Sheffield, Johnny, 2.1, 2.2
Shelton, John
Sheridan, Ann, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
She’s Having a Baby
Shine On, Harvest Moon, 2.1n
Shining Hour, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Shock to the System, A
Shoot the Moon
shorts, 2.1; Pete Smith Specialties, 2.2 and n
Shulman, Max
Sidney, Sylvia, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
Siegel, Don, n
silent-film era, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4n, 2.5n; “bipolar” approach, 1.2; cautionary tale approach, 1.3, 1.4; comedy, 1.5 and n, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8; of DeMille, 1.9, 1.10; end of, 1.11; infidelity, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16 and n, 2.6; marriage films, 1.17, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9n; tragedy, 1.18, 1.19; two-reelers, 1.20, 2.10; see also actors, directors, films, genres, and themes
Silver Cord, The, 2.1n
Simmons, Jean, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Simpsons, The
sin, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Sinatra, Frank, 2.1n, 2.2
Since You Went Away, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Singleton, Penny, 2.1 and n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Sirk, Douglas, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4n, 3.1, 3.2
sisterhood, wartime, 2.1 and n, 2.2, 2.3 and n
Sisters, The, 2.1 and n
Sitting Pretty
situation comedies, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3; 1950s-60s television, 2.4; programmer films, 2.5; see also television sitcoms
situations, 2.1; husband returns home from war, 2.2; “lonely war wife” films, 2.3; marry-in-haste films, 2.4, 2.5; of 1950s, 2.6; of 1960s, 3.1; of 1970s, 3.2; of 1980s, 3.3, 3.4; of 1990s, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7; nuclear couple, 3.8; postwar, 2.7; programmers, 2.8; TV sitcoms, 2.9; of 2000s–2010s, 3.9, 3.10; wartime, 2.10; weddings, 3.11; see also specific actors, films, shows, and situations
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