Wouldn't be nice if life was like a black and white movie? No? just me then, that's ok I'll convert you all yet. Just you wait!!
Firstly we'd all be followed everywhere we went by a jazz quartet playing music that fit every senario, bouncy swing for the happy upbeat moments, soft, amorous standards for the romantic ones and dark soulful melodys for when stuff isn't going too well.
We'd all be dressed impeccably. The woman sumptiously wrapped in gowns by Givency or Diors's 'New Look', our hair perfectly coiffed. It would be acceptable, if not required, to wear hats and gloves with every outfit (and I dont mean the woolie variety). In black and white films Men were Men, they were the clean cut upstanding guys you could bring home to your mother like James Stewart or they were rougish cads who would break your heart like Clark Gable. Clad in suits from Savile row or Brooks Brothers, they all oozed charm, intellgence and sophistication. they made grand romantic gestures and kissed you like there was no tommorrow.
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| the wonderful Jimmy stewart |
Women came in a number of varieties. Gamine and quietly alluring like our beloved Audrey or Grace Kelly, sensual, voluptuous and a little bit dangerous like Rita Haworth or Jane Russell, exotic and mysterious like Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman or ballsy and outspoken like Bette Davis and Katherine Hepburn.
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| the ravishing Rita Hayworth |
We'd all dress for dinner and live in big Gatsby-esque estates on Long Island or East Hampton and throw fabulous parties on the lawn where we would drank endless champagne and eat nothing but canapes. We'd all be independently wealthy and of course there would always be a happy ending (well almost always)
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| bogie and bergman |
Do you see the appeal yet?
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| the dashing cary grant |
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| mysterious Greta Garbo |
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| the fabulously ballsy Bette Davis |
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| the witty and out spoken Katharine Hepburn |
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| Dangerously beautiful Jane Russell |
