Last week, I shared The Snob, an educational film from 1958. Today’s short film — 1955’s The Gossip — is from the same people who gave us The Snob and it has also become something of a personal obsession of mine. While it’s not as intense as the Snob, the Gossip is still a pretty accurate look at the type of people that every girl has had to deal with at some point in her life. If nothing else, The Gossip was the Mean Girls of its day.
(That said, it’s interesting to note that, in the 50s, all the gossip centered on who was cheating on tests as opposed to who was cheating on who.)
Like The Snob, The Gossip was directed by Herk Harvey and stars Vera Stough.
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Girls and Front End managers. Groan, the crap I have to hear out of my Cashiers’ mouths. Though it is funny to see how this all plays out: men get in trouble for being too self-centered (generally saving us from gossiping as such), while women are taken to task for being too concerned with what’s happening around them.
it’s also interesting to note that in the 50s kids stood outside convenience stores drinking soda pop, and not smoking and cursing out geriatrics.
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Well, some of the geriatrics then were probably veterans of the Great War and could probably still beat the crap out of any teenage delinquent who got all sass mouth at them. LOL
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Laura would go on to have a lengthy career working as a “fact checker” for Fox News.
Why is it that just about all the men in this film talk like Bo Hopkins? They should have included subtitles with this short. But I’m guessing that the hillbilly around the seven minute mark says:
“Miss’s… Anders’n handed back our test papers dis mornin’, an’ our boy Leh-rry here got’n A.”
Then there’s the chirpy, impatient girl at the four minute mark who makes no sense whatsover.
Hints that this was made A Really Long Time Ago:
“Mimeographs”!
The girl named “Mildred”.
The boy who calls the girl “Cutie” and walks away with his manhood intact.
Extras in the cafeteria and “drug store” actually conversing and being social, NOT poking incessantly at Smartphones and other portables devices. Those must have been good times.
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