Marriage: Today (1950)
1950 · Ephemeral film · 23 min · dir. Alexander Hammid
- War
Synopsis
Post-World War II film for young couples advising them of means to strengthen their marriages. Shows how two young couples have built lasting marriages by a clear analysis of their mutual aims and cooperation in achieving them. One couple, university graduates, have many interests in common. The other couple, a business man and a teacher, center their mutual affection in their son. Designed to be used with a marriage text.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Alexander Hammid
- Writer
- Irving Jacoby
- Released
- 1950-06-06
- Running time
- 23 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Social guidance
- Marriage
- World War II: Postwar issues
Cast & crew
Alexander Hammid Director
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Ladies! Give up your careers! · Spuzz · 2003-11-29
Though the message and intent of 'Marriage Today' is quite earnest, I'm sorry, but I don't buy most of what the film is saying. We follow several couples around, and listen to their thoughts of why they got married. Some people do it not because they're the most glamorous person, but because they like their personality (the "He makes me laugh" defense here) another woman is confident about giving up her career in Medicine to hang around the household all day. The women also seem to get the short end of the stick here, making sure to make the men happy and do whatever they want to do. I sort…
★★★★ · Good for its time · ERD. · 2016-08-16
We live in more complex, dangerous and less stable world than when the film was made. Most wives work now due the cost of living being so high. Young couples are more restless and less disciplined in working out differences causing the divorce rate to have accelerated. While this film was good for its day, it leaves out many of the present problems our generation has.
★★ · My Predictions/Thoughts · JayKay49 · 2011-12-05
Rocky road ahead for the couple where the lady gave up a career as a pathologist...shes bossy - especially by 1950 standards, and understandibly so....you have to realize shes an MD; and the guy is such a child - cant keep his mind on his work. This movie has some very radical overtones for 1950. It spins the usual yarn about the "glue" that keeps marriages together but there really is no egalitarianism in but a few marriages - despite the overlying theme set here. Anyone who assumes there is might well find themself in a divorce court. But the most telling thing here (despite its forward…
