By ABC Television (eBay item photo front press release) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsIn 1960 television shows set in the Roaring Twenties enlivened the small screen. One of them featured teenagers as the main attraction, depicting the life of an exuberant high school girl named Margie. It was adapted from a 1946 movie starring Jeanne Crain. Like the later Patty Duke Show, Margie featured the main character’s family, but the plots also involved an interesting array of friends. The malt shop atmosphere is reminiscent of Archie comics, a long-lived franchise that took off in the 1940s. Margie remains a fun show with vintage delights such as upbeat jazz, raccoon coats, frocks with dropped waists and fringe, men’s straw boater hats, and that infectious dance, theCharleston. Pig-tailed Cynthia Pepper played the title character.
Almost a hundred years have flown by since the onset of the Roaring Twenties. Do you find that time period interesting from the standpoint of pop culture and change? What do you like about it? In case you haven’t seen Margie, here’s a You Tube link to give you an idea of the personality of that vintage show.
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All I know about it is from movies or books. That it was a glamorous time of economic and technological growth and a life centered around the automobile, jazz music, and bootleg liquor.
One thing I remember is women came out of some of their formality and restraints, as evidenced by the change in clothing from long, corseted, and binding to loose fitting, shorter, and easy to dance in.
I’m not familiar with the TV show, Margie, but I do enjoy movies and books set in the 20s. Like Carmen, I think of it as the age of jazz and bootleg liquor. There were so many changes from the early 1900s, almost as if society threw off a cloak and embraced life. When I think of the 20s, I always think of the Great Gatsby, glamour and glitz.
Flossie Benton Rogers, Conjuring the Magic with Paranormal Romance
All I know about it is from movies or books. That it was a glamorous time of economic and technological growth and a life centered around the automobile, jazz music, and bootleg liquor.
One thing I remember is women came out of some of their formality and restraints, as evidenced by the change in clothing from long, corseted, and binding to loose fitting, shorter, and easy to dance in.
We love old movies. I haven’t seen this but I love the roaring twenties and will have to check it out.
I have seen the movie Margie with Jeanne Crain, but the tv show with Cynthia Pepper was such fun.
I’m not familiar with the TV show, Margie, but I do enjoy movies and books set in the 20s. Like Carmen, I think of it as the age of jazz and bootleg liquor. There were so many changes from the early 1900s, almost as if society threw off a cloak and embraced life. When I think of the 20s, I always think of the Great Gatsby, glamour and glitz.
And all that jazz! Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Mae. I love it that the 20s was beginning to be made the basis of tv shows in the sixties.