Salon.com > Jeanine Basinger http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 22:49:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Hollywood hates marriage! http://www.salon.com/2013/02/03/hollywood_hates_marriage/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/03/hollywood_hates_marriage/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13188215 Once upon a time, I decided to write a book about marriage in the movies, and I had no idea that might prove to be a problem. Both Molly Haskell and David Thomson told me it would, but I didn’t listen. I had even been warned about it by filmmakers. (Frank Capra said, “Embrace happy marriage in real life, but keep away from it onscreen.”) I had read research in which executives such as Sam Briskin, RKO’s production chief, complained about the married couple in John Ford’s "The Plough and the Stars": “Why make a picture where a man and woman are married? The main thing about pictures is love or sex. Here you’ve got a man and woman married at the start — who’s interested in that?” I didn’t pay any attention. I just wanted to write a book about marriage in the movies.

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