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shaggylocks

shaggylocks
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Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA
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August 23
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Fan of ephemera, connoisseur of Coronet.

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JUNE 6, 2009 3:00PM

How to Be Well Groomed (1949)

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Ahhh, Saturday.  The day I use to catch up on all of my grooming: sewing on buttons, polishing shoes, ironing clothes, brushing my hair.  In fact, I spend all of my free time grooming, since I've modeled my life on Don and Sue.  I look like the kind of person you'd like to know, don't I?
 
This is probably one of my favorite Coronet films.  Grooming seems to occupy Don and Sue's entire day, while the narrators--apparently the work load required two narrators--bubble along happily as if this type of behavior is normal.   Then again, maybe they have a point, for "your success depends a great deal on how you look."
 
But I better get back to my grooming.  Please don't look at my stubby hands!

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My favorite line: "Mother too keeps up a good appearance even around the house, for that keeps up her spirits."

That, and good spirits, if you get my drift.
Believe it or not they used to show these films when I was in elementary and junior high. What a world!
It seems that so many of these Coronet films come from colleges and universities in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Mississippi. Will you be showing us some from Harvard?
My mother always went to the beauty parlor on Saturday mornings. We had to do chores. No cartoons!
Sometimes I went with her and enjoyed putting all the rollers in place and generally tidying up.
I'm always sad that it didn't occur to me, or my brother, to just watch cartoons and do a little grauitous cleaning.
We were very disciplined. The punishment being worse than any potential crime.
i'm confused about the relationship and also craving the bed ensemble.
Lea: oh, I believe it. I have an embarrassingly large collection of films like these.

Steve: you know, for an institution at the cutting edge of so many scholarly innovations, Harvard seems to be lacking a Homemaking Education Department. STILL. It's embarrassing, really.

aim: Don and Sue are brother and sister. You'll also notice they have absurdly small closets, which makes their large and neatly groomed wardrobe all the more miraculous.
Gotta love the music! Lea got the grooming videos, I got the duck and cover ones! Maybe the should bring these back to the schools! Those low riders and belly buttons hanging out just don't do it for me.
The trouble with middle age is that there aren't enough instructional films. We don't know what to do, and no one will tell us.