Wives
Miss Voodoo
Stella Danfray, aka "Miss Voodoo," seemed poised to become a movie star when she arrived in the United States from France in 1950. She had all kinds of meetings lined up with Hollywood bigwigs.
New Castle News - Jan 7, 1950
Source: Oklahoma Historical Society
But it turned out that Miss Voodoo had some peculiar views about marital relations. Unprompted, she told a reporter that she thought American husbands were browbeaten and should slap their wives.
I don't know if this comment ended her Hollywood career before it even began (as far as I can tell, she never appeared in any movies), but it definitely turned the American press against her. Within a few months she had left America. She continued working as a model in Europe for a number of years. I don't find any more references to her after 1955.
Montreal Daily Star - May 25, 1950
La Crosse Tribune - Sep 24, 1950
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 23, 2022 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Husbands, Wives, Marriage, 1950s
Sexy TV Showering
Surprised this passed the censorship of the times, as it's just one step away from having the (presumed, but never explicitly stated) husband and wife sharing the same shower stall.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 29, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Hygiene, Sexuality, Public Indecency, Husbands, Wives, 1970s
Wife Swapping By Mail
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 22, 2021 -
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Category: Husbands, Wives, 1960s, Sex, Postal Services
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 36
"Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst with his sculpture, Capricorn, 1947"
Foto source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 13, 2021 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Statues and Monuments, Husbands, Wives, 1940s
Dummy Divorce
Photo source: The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland 21 Aug 1953, Fri • Page 4
Text source: Los Angeles Evening Citizen News (Hollywood, California) 21 Aug 1953, Fri Page 11
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 19, 2021 -
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Category: Law, Puppets and Automatons, Husbands, Wives, Divorce
Follies of the Madmen #481
Isn't it the offending husband who is usually the spouse assigned to sleep in the tub?
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 26, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Husbands, Wives, 1960s
Safety Kisses
Throughout the 20th century, it seemed to be widely assumed that the mood of the husband was determined by the behavior of his wife at home. So, concluded the District of Columbia's traffic safety office in 1963, if a man was in a 'disgruntled disposition' and consequently got into a traffic accident, it must have been the fault of his wife who didn't cheer him up adequately when he left home with a goodbye kiss "as though she meant it."See also: Whose fault is it when your husband is cross at breakfast?
Minneapolis Star - Nov 12, 1963
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 20, 2020 -
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Category: Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Gender, Husbands, Wives, 1960s
Matrimonial Delusions
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 27, 2020 -
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Category: Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Money, Husbands, Wives, 1900s
She was boring her husband to death
This ad for Vivarin stimulant tablets ran in newspapers and magazines in 1971. It prompted a complaint from the FTC.
San Bernardino Sun - Mar 28, 1971
Ivan Preston provides more details in The Great American Blow-Up: Puffery in Advertising and Selling:
"One day it dawned on me that I was boring my husband to death. It was hard for me to admit it—but it was true…. Often by the time he came home at night I was feeling dull, tired and drowsy, and so Jim would look at television and, for the most part, act like I wasn’t even there. And I wasn’t. I decided that I had to do something. I had seen an advertisement for a tablet called Vivarin. It said that Vivarin was a non-habit forming stimulant tablet that would give me a quick lift. Last week… I took a Vivarin tablet… just about an hour before Jim came home, and I found time to pretty up a little, too. It worked. All of a sudden Jim was coming home to a more exciting woman, me… The other day—it wasn’t even my birthday—Jim sent me flowers with a note. The note began: ‘To my new wife…'"
All very nice, but but the contribution of Vivarin was to provide merely the amount of caffeine found in two cups of coffee. No miracle aphrodisiac, just good old caffeine at a premium price!
The major allegation of the FTC's complaint about Vivarin concerned this social-psychological misrepresentation... But the Vivarin ads were also alleged to be deceptive because they did not disclose caffeine to be the critical ingredient.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 20, 2020 -
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Category: Drugs, Advertising, Wives, 1970s
Whose fault is it when your husband is cross at breakfast?
Answer (according to 1920's ad men): It's the wife's fault for serving him coffee or tea.Strange, because I'm pretty crabby in the morning if I don't have coffee.
The Helena Star - Oct 6, 1921
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 28, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, Husbands, Wives, 1920s
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