Going Steady? (1951)

★★★★★ · Steady: Do's and Dont'a. · Spuzz · 2003-06-29

Highly guilt ridden film made to poo-poo the remote fact of going steady unless you're good and ready. Film seems to okay the idea that it's alright to play the field more and not to take the idea of going steady too seriously. This is one very strange film if you consider all the other films in the Coronet canon. (especially 'Are You Ready For Marriage?) which seems to preach the opposite. The leads, who somewhat look like Liev Schrieber and Ren¨¦e Zellweger, play the parts admirably, as the whole script is laughable. Especially the bit with the boy's parents on the couch. Highly…

★★★★★ · Great · EazyJake · 2009-02-13

Ha well, i thoroughly enjoy this and many of the mid 50's video i have watched. \what a simpler tine

★★★★ · Teenage Pressures · ERD · 2006-02-07

Teenages have a lot of social pressures; What is right to do, what isn't. In this film it seems the way these teenagers handled the problem of going steady was fine. For 1951, I think the film is excellent and got teens to think.

★★★ · That Jeff - what a dawg! · depthfunction · 2005-04-06

This isn't one of the more laughable Coronet films, but it does feature Barney - Marie's little brother who, in his brief appearance, does the best acting job, and has the best line of the film ("That was Alice. She wanted me to come over and make some fudge with her - girls! But I guess I'll go anyway." BWAHAHAHA!) Jeff's checkers game with his father was goofy. His family desperately needs to buy one of them newfangled TVs. The film ends with the question, "This story hasn't answered all of your questions, has it?" No it hasn't. Not by a long shot!

★★★ · Making Fudge · DrAwkward · 2009-08-16

Well now, Barney doesn't seem nearly as conflicted as Marie and Jeff about his relationship, even if the activity he's about to get involved in sounds a lot more suggestive than "going steady." Imagine if the term "making fudge" were substituted every time one of the main characters said "going steady." That might be all you'd need to bring the film up to date.

★★★ · I Say Hold Out For Diane · JayKay49 · 2012-12-22

Diane is way better looking than Marie whose face has too much of that Rana pipiens look to it. Not to mention what a princess complex is just below the surface...she wants to depend on Jeff to attend to her social needs but longs for other boys to call her and ask her out. How typical - wants to have it BOTH ways - yet offers little. The need for this whole film and discussion would have been moot if they just had invented the "-ish" ending for words, i.e., "going steadyish". Not uncommon 20 years later.