Signs Of The Times, 1945

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Deanna

– January 24, 2012Posted in: Featured, Hey, Sister, Can You Spare Some Social Change?, Orgasmic Irony, Sexism Is Sexy

A vintage photo, taken by photographer Joseph Jasgur, of Earl Carroll’s Vanities pin-up girls picketing in front of a Los Angeles movie theater — a staged publicity event “against” the film version of Steinbeck’s plantation story The Southerner. The signs say The Southerner is unfair to “the romancit South,” to the “Beauties of the South,” to the very”Flower of Dixie Womanhood.”

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3 Comments

1. Cliff Aliperti

   Posted January 25, 2012 at 4:57 PM

   Love this movie, even wrote about it, but trying to figure out how it was unfair to the beauties of the South. Did they have the nerve to premiere it on a big night for the Vanities? Cool pic, but weird.

2. Deanna

   Posted January 26, 2012 at 5:28 PM

   You know I love the cool and the weird — especially when they are one Feel free to post your film review link here!

3. Cliff Aliperti

   Posted January 27, 2012 at 3:52 AM

   Thanks, Deanna, here’s my look at The Southerner” (1945). Actually, the entire movie is embedded at the bottom of the post courtesy archive.org … must be a public domain title.