Watching Holiday Affair, I am reminded of the peculiarities of 1949 where Hays Code audiences just accepted 22-year-old Janet Leigh as the single (war widowed) mother of a 9-year-old boy and romantic interest for Robert Mitchum or his 35-year-old rival suitor.
Teenage pregnancy was a no-no under the Code, few daring to state it until the late 1950s. Even if we are to believe her to be playing a woman in her middle 20s, there is still a whiff of it here.
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