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WARNING: this trailer comes from a time when people could still say Gay without 12 year olds everywhere quietly chuckling themselves to sleep.
I know that people have essentially always been the same, but something in my bones tells me that in the 1950s problems did not exist. Couples slept in separate beds, and I mean, McCarthyism was cute, right? Nothing could have been wrong when a beautiful (yet adventurous!) princess was having a gay, giddy, wonderful day! And what could compete with the “wildest escapade that ever set the eternal city on its ear”? Certainly the 410 Sack of Rome and the subsequent fall of the Roman Empire could not compare with the Oscar-worthy antics of Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. When you really get down to it, the comforting thing about this trailer is that it is identical to every other trailer from that time. The moment an audience stepped in a theater, all reality fell away. Audrey Hepburn became the happiest pixie girl on earth, life became a wondrous giddy time, and she could have “the gayest spree a girl ever had!” The movie itself is certainly one of the best around, but the trailers make everything out to be so, you know, gay (syn: happy). Something about the far-fetched function of movies and the incredible star-power to back it up is comforting about the ’50s. Then again, Charlie Chaplin, the epitome of star power, was blacklisted and excommunicated from the US the year before this was released. So perhaps it’s very silly after all, and everyone, deep down, trembling alone in their single beds, not daring to whisper their grim prophetic suspicions to their racially identical spouse, lest the Commies (bumbum bumm) overhear…was waiting for this:
