Could "Little Orphan Annie" get published today?

I don’t buy the theory about the Production Code and women’s portrayals. If anything, I think the opposite was true.

Top Jobs — Female Leads in American Movies

1930/1940

Singer/Dancer: 41/31
Actress: 16/8
Office Worker/Secretary: 12/6
Nurse: 2/10
Journalist: 0/13
Prostitute/Madam: 1/1
Hotel/Restaurant/Bar Worker: 8/5
Student (college): 4/1
Secret Agent: 4/2
Teacher (school/college): 1/4
Hotel/Restaurant/Bar Owner: 3/4
Model: 3/4
Farmer/Rancher: 3/6
Servant: 4/0
Doctor/Psychiatrist: 0/0
Shop Assistant: 4/3
Musician/Songwriter: 2/3
Policewoman: 0/1
Scientist: 0/1
Writer: 1/5
Lawyer: 1/1
Artist: 0/0
Broadcaster: 0/1
Circus Performer: 1/1
Missionary/Evanglist/Nun: 1/0
Air Stewardess: 0/2
Manufacturer: 1/1

Source: Patrick Robertson, The Guinness Book of Movie Facts & Feats, 5th ed., 1993.

Got a reprint a few years ago:

He got out

[spoiler]by noticing that the wood floor was uneven and so he pounded his back to the floor several times making the floor vibrate to make the blocks of ice move slowly to the left. When Patton finally got to Tracy, he was laying still and it looked like the spike killed Tracy.

But Patton ripped Tracy’s shirt to reveal that Tracy was just unconscious for the effort and the spike got to the floor scratching him, but not seriously.
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Cite?

I really dislike this meme I see on the Dope. Plenty of left-wingers are religious. Remember Kerry and Edwards?

And why criticise being religious? Surely it was morals, not religion, that was the issue here?

So…they would be the religious left. What’s your issue here? If you’re scratching your head trying to figure out why you never hear the term “religious left”, maybe it’s because religious people of the liberal persuasion tend less often to shout down from the pulpit how everyone else should live their lives. They’ve certainly tried less often to legislate morals in my lifetime (DOMA aside.)

And why criticize being religious? Well, how many atheistic moral crusaders have YOU ever met?

  1. Name 5 popular female American directors.

  2. Name 30 popular male American directors.

(Hint: exercize 2 will be easier.)

Because ‘the religious right’ seems to be a meme that’s developing as the new group of bogeymen. And I can’t let it be unchallenged.

  1. Name 5 famous female Supreme Court justices.

  2. Name 30 famous male Supreme Court justices.

(Hint: exercize [sic] 2 will be easier.)

Singling movies out for misogyny is not much of an argument.

And if **lissener’s ** argument meant anything at all you would be able to detail the equality of women in any or all aspects of film before the Code.

It doesn’t and you can’t.

It’s an old term. You’re really, really late for this bus. Trust me.

Neither is an appeal to authority.

What is the world is this supposed to mean?

Well, I did describe worse – the impalement on a church steeple, the electrocutions – they weren’t described – they were shown, in loving detail.

Tracy escaped from the melting-ice-blocks-of-doom, by banhing on the floor enough so that the ice blocks slid slightly downhill (the floor, fortunately, wasn’t level) and the spike narrowly missed Tracy’s chest.