# This Charming Couple

This Charming Couple, one of a series of five films on courtship and marriage designed to be used with Henry Bowman's textbook Marriage for Moderns, was part of the massive postwar response to family disintegration and problems. Most educational films hover safely within the realm of conventional wisdom. They feature characters who are not too attractive, not too smart, and not too unusual-the better for ordinary students to identify with. Not This Charming Couple. Like the other Marriage for Moderns films, and quite unlike most social guidance movies, the film is about the lives-and problems-of educated people and intellectuals. Ken and Winnie float through the Missouri summer countryside in a haze of poetic infatuation. Ken worries that "the words don't come" when he tries to get Winnie's essence down on paper; Winnie criticizes Ken for not understanding "how exciting the life of a writer can be." Ken takes Winnie to dinner with his friends from New York and they quarrel when Winnie does not quite make the grade with the effete intellectuals. The film is considerably more literate than others of its type, incorporating prose, poetry, and ballads into its soundtrack. The dialogue is witty and odd enough to be quoted: "Blue eyes mean love me or I die. Brown eyes mean love me or I kill you." As Willard van Dyke's essay "The Director on Location," included on this disc, reveals, the attitude and production environment were unusual, even utopian. The filmmakers, themselves…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1950
- By: Affiliated Film Producers
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/0454_This_Charming_Couple_E01473_01_00_53_00)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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