I meant to look up that clip from the TV. Didn't recognize it. Actually looked kind of boring.
When Debbie Reynolds announced her plan, my immediate thought was "ah, that's why I never hear anyone talk about this movie." Thinking about Reynolds in film, there seems to be a struggle between the roles agents and producers put her in and parts she would like to play. There's a disconnect with her because she's practically rolling her eyes that this is what people want to see, yet she doesn't seem aware how much she's adding to the problem.
I wonder what are some good examples of romantic comedies of the 1950s that are progressive. I usually remember them more for their use of cinemascope than for any women's liberation. All of a sudden, Audrey Hepburn's bohemian dance in Funny Face is a radical scene. Even How to Marry a Millionaire I remember being more advanced than this.
Side observation on the continuing Crosby vs. Sinatra debate. Bing Crosby was known to have a bit of a belly, but he was making movies when actors were fully dressed, usually dressed up, so it was easy to hide. In Sinatra's time, actors were expected more to take their shirts off, which was unfortunate for such a bony chicken as Sinatra.
I've been sitting on Everybody Does It (1949) which stars Celeste Holm, Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell and Charles Coburn. I should get to that before the month ends.