richardrushfield:

From my Brief History of On Screen Romance:

The Love as Terrible Duty Era: Circa 1951

As Seen In: It’s a Wonderful Life (pictured above), A Place in the Sun, A Star Is Born

As America settled down and took on the burden of home and family, the burden suddenly felt a little heavier than many imagined it might. The country awoke to its war marriages and was driven to wonder if maybe they had rushed into things just a little. In It’s a Wonderful Life, poor Jimmy Stewart — who didn’t run away from Donna Reed when he had the chance — dreams about how much better the world would be without him. In A Place in the Sun, Montgomery Clift is driven to murder the woman he rashly fell in love with a few lonely scenes prior.

Read it all at BuzzFeed

Joey your lil video brought me to tears to see such totally natural childlike people with the hearts of a child pure and trusting you captured my heart with the depiction of this tribe thankyou for reminding me when people were so pure of heart . it seems the only ones left like this are native people like these tribe sweet but sad …but hopeful how the tables turn …

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