'It's 1852, dumplin'!'

[litlover12]

Jezebel is on TCM (I love you, Summer Under the Stars!), and my goodness, what an absurd fuss about a red dress! In a lot of movies, I have a good deal of sympathy with the forces of morality and order -- even when I'm clearly supposed to sympathize with the opposing forces -- but this was just nuts. As if the ceiling were going to fall in because a girl wore a red dress to a ball. Watching it in the age of Girls Gone Wild, in particular, it boggles the mind.

I do kind of love the way Henry Fonda grits his teeth and makes her go through with it, though!