Topical Guide 688
Mark Dorset
Popular Culture: Movies: College Comedies
What a Piece of Work I Am, Chapter 19:
“I WISH I could capture the atmosphere of Sunrise Cove after Guy took charge,” she said. “It was as if we were in one of those upbeat movies that came out in the thirties, with aging child actors still playing kids, hanging around the soda fountain and saying ‘swell’ and ‘gee’ a lot.”
Herewith, excerpts from Girl o’ My Dreams (1934):
Popular Culture: Pulp Fiction: Stock Characters: Bad Girls
What a Piece of Work I Am, Chapter 19:
I would have been cast as one of the bad girls—from the wrong side of the tracks
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