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Audrey Totter 1940’s

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Make Room (In Your Heart) for Marty (‘55) by Jill Blake

There’s an iconic moment in Delbert Mann’s MARTY (‘55) when the title character, played by Ernest Borgnine, gleefully punches a bus stop sign. Marty, a thirty-something unmarried butcher who lives with his mother, has just unexpectedly met the love of his life. Out with his friends for their usual Saturday night club-crawl, Marty meets a woman, Clara (Betsy Blair), who has just been cruelly ditched by her date for another, more attractive woman. Usually awkward around women, Marty quickly realizes Clara’s heartbreaking situation and introduces himself. He talks to Clara as if he’s known her his entire life, hardly stopping to take a breath. There’s an instant connection between Marty and Clara, as they spend the next several hours getting to know one another, talking until the wee hours of the morning.

During their long talk, Marty and Clara find they have quite a lot in common: they both live at home—Marty with his widowed mother, Clara with her retired parents; both are devout Catholics; both work hard—Clara as a schoolteacher, and Marty as a butcher; both aren’t conventionally good-looking; and both are terribly lonely. But for this one special Saturday night, Marty and Clara aren’t lonely. They feel comfortable with one another. At one point, Marty says confidently to Clara, “See, dogs like us, we ain’t such dogs as we think we are.” These two kind and love-starved souls have instantly formed a bond with something so uniquely special and intangible that neither one knows exactly what to do; they’ve never been in this situation before. Even with their inexperience and awkwardness with love and relationships, Marty and Clara know they don’t want to lose their bond. But outside forces, specifically Marty’s family and close friends, along with low self-esteem and body image issues, threaten Marty and Clara’s happiness.

In that moment when Marty punches the bus stop sign, everything he’s ever hoped and dreamed for has finally come true. After years of disappointing Saturday nights out with his friends looking for girls, Marty has finally met someone who sees him for who he is. He knows he’s not particularly attractive or sophisticated, but he has a big heart with a lot of love to give to someone willing to accept and reciprocate it. And for once, a woman has recognized that in him. After walking Clara home and saying goodnight, Marty has a spring in his step. He’s giddy and smiling. It’s the happiest night of his life and he wants to give someone a high-five or a hug, or shout at the top of his lungs, but it’s two o’clock in the morning.

Waiting for the bus, Marty paces. He can’t stand still, let alone wait for the bus to arrive. He has too much on his mind. As he walks back and forth on the sidewalk, Marty is growing more excited. He is in love. He wants to go home so he can dream about Clara and their future together—one where he doesn’t have to be alone anymore. And even though he just spent many hours with her, he can’t wait to see her again. To hear her voice. To know he needs her and that she needs him. To know there’s so much to look forward to, now that Clara is in his life. And with a phone date with Clara after Sunday Mass—less than twenty-four hours away, Marty impulsively decides he doesn’t have time for the bus. After all, tonight isn’t like all the other Saturday nights. He doesn’t have to go home dejected. He punches the bus stop sign with a huge grin on his face, and runs into the street to hail a cab. Surely this isn’t the first time Marty has punched a sign, but it’s the first time he’s done it with such happiness and sense of purpose. It’s a beautiful moment that is so relatable for anyone who has ever been in the early throes of love.

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Polly of the Circus (1932)

#marion davies #clark gable

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A young Irene Hervey.

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Thelma Todd and Antonio Moreno originally played the romantic couple in The Bohemian Girl. Unfortunately, all but one of Thelma’s scenes were cut after her death and reshot so that Mae Busch, who played Ollie’s wife, also became Devilshoof’s lover.

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