AVOID ANNIVERSARY MOVIES

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A Divorce Downer Of Old Movies.

The plan: A nice wedding anniversary with the family followed by a weekend at the same beach you went to on your honeymoon.

If anniversaries are a tradition, so is the beach trip.

You book your favorite cabin, the one with unobstructed view of the ocean…from the bathroom.

Pack up and head out for a few days together, just the two of you.

Why? Because it’s your anniversary and you love that beach cabin.

It’s big enough to find a quiet place, small enough to not get lost.

The big part is location; just one backyard away from the beach trail head.

In real time you’re a minute away.

Beach time, cabin time, married time, you’re off the clock.

Then you snuggle in for a movie on the new TV.

One movie turns into two, then a third.

A 1937 movie is about a divorcing couple.

The 1941 movie is about a divorcing couple.

Is this Turner Classic or the Divorce Channel?

Everyone wears suits and formal gear and live in sumptuous apartments, like everyone else during the Depression. They look like out takes from The Great Gatsby.

In 1937 Cary Grant channels George Clooney. You can see where George took acting lessons.

The could be twins, Cary and George.

The Ted Turner channel shows movies without commercials. Not a one. That part was great, but the subject was still divorce.

To coincidental to be a coincidence?

How many married couples watch divorce movies without talking about divorce?

All of them.

This was no Kramer vs Kramer, or Mrs. Doubtfire.

Described as a ‘screwball comedy’ the divorce movies were supposed to be funny. Except they weren’t.

There’s Cary Grant coming back from a Florida trip without a tan, so he lays under a heat lamp for a quick bake. A 1937 version of a tanning bed.

He got roasted, but the black and white print didn’t show how roasted.

Cary arrived home just before his wife showed up after an overnight trip with her voice coach.

Both are suspicious. Hilarity ensues.

It was probably funnier in pre-WWII America during the Great Depression.

Divorcing fancy people was supposed to make everyone else feel better? Anniversary movies ought to make you feel better, too.

The last movie showed up on a quick run through the channels.

It was the end of Purple Rain with Prince singing the title song.

My wife left the couch at the beginning. Not a Prince fan?

The movie came out two years before we got married. We saw Prince in the Tacoma Dome the next year.

She came back in with a bic lighter and waved it the whole song.

It made up for the other movies we saw.