"Sex" movies (about courtship) from the '50s and '60s...

Cafe Society
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I like the old movies from about 1955 to about 1965 where all the publicity touts it as a “movie about sex”, but it’s really a movie about courtship.*

Examples:Anything with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. (Actually, anything with Doris Day and anybody else after she made “Pillow Talk”.)

Come September with Rock Hudson.

Down With Love (Yeah, I know it wasn’t made back then, but it’s a good representation of the type, even if it is a recent film)(I know that’s a short list, but I’m trying to lengthen mine.)

What other movies fit this type? Recommend some other movies of this rather narrow genre (I have all the DD/RH movies and That Touch of Mink on DVD). What movies did I miss that you think were pretty entertaining examples of this type?

–SSgtBaloo

*That’s not the only type of movie I like, but I kind of like to rotate my favorites so I won’t get bored with them. :smiley:

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:smack:

Whoops! I meant to post this in Cafe Society.

Would an accomodating moderator please correct this oversight?

Thank you.

–SSgtBaloo

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Not moved yet so will answer here.

An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, and the original Sabrina just to name a couple.
For a bit of light hearted fluff there were the Tammy and Giget movies.

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Moving thread to Cafe Society, and throwing in a title repair at no extra charge.

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Breakfast at Tiffanys. (Holly was a HOOKER!!! Of course the most explicit mention was, IIRC, the whole, “fifty dollars for the powder room” line)

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Thanks! (What repairs did the title require, may I ask?)

–SSgtBaloo

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“courship” to “courtship”

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“Jupiter’s Darling” was basically a romance between Howard Keel and Esther Williams. It was set in Roman times, but had a 50s sensibility to it.

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Sweet Charity