My beautiful Italian mother was pregnant @ 16 in 1956 and the father was 18 and went off into the Air Force, not knowing she was pregnant. She called him and told him as family were telling her to give the baby up for adoption. The father asked for a pass so he could fly to her as he was stationed in Texas. The Air Force gave him a 3 day pass. In those 3 days he married her🥰 They were so in love and ended up having 6 more children 🥰❤️ I am number 6 out of 7 siblings. My Dad was such an amazing man and we had the best childhood ever. My wonderful father passed away a few years ago and I miss him everyday😢 My mom is an amazing women and I’m so thankful she’s still here with us🙏🏻 My father passed just 2 months before their 60th anniversary. They were still madly in love until his last breath with her on this earth ❤️
@@Naijella86 Thank you❤️ he was truly a wonderful man, husband and father🙏🏻 He was also a police officer and he helped anyone that needed it and would even help get their charges reduced, knowing if the charges were wrong. Thank you again🌺
@Kittymay98 You were one of the lucky ones based on Unsolved Mysteries show alone with all its stories of unwed mothers desperate to find the child they'd been forced to part with back in those years when it was "so embarrassing" to a girls family.
Bettie said the key words “A Mothers Love”. With the help of God and her love for her child, she and her son will make it in the world. Awesome movie with many lessons can be taken away from. Thanks.
Lesson #1 When women in society are like cheap property with no autonomy of their own, this is the best case scenario. Marriages were often much harsher sentences then.
What a movie! It shows reality and the heartbreak of what can happen. Yes it is good for every young person to see this. Girl or boy…….both. Regrets can happen for everybody if the right choices aren’t made. This can be a harsh or beautiful world…..sometimes both. Having God in our lives helps us in all circumstances. Thank you for this movie. This should be shown in high schools to both classes for girls and boys.🙏❤️🕊
I couldn't give my baby up either. Not easy in those days being a solo mum to a baby. There was no financial help. I found out when she was 6yrs old that I couldn't have any more children. I'm thankful that a mother's love was stronger than everything else. Now I have 2 adult grandchildren as well 🙏❤💖❤🙏
When I was about 6, one of my mum's friends, who turned up at our house with her baby son . I asked, 'Where's Auntie Joan's husband?' My parents told me , 'He ran away.' (True in a way. Joan thought he boyfriend would do the decent thing, but he said, 'I never said I'd get married.' Years later, Mum showed me a letter where Joan said, 'I had a son, and yes, I am keeping him.' It was almost expected that unwed mothers gave their babies for adoption then, and many were guilted about being selfish. 'Do you want your child to be called a bastard?' I think some people even regarded an unwed woman's miscarriage as a 'blessing in disguise, ' though they would not say the same to a widow.
Adoption isn't what your child can do for you it's wanting a better future for your child. I gave my child up for adoption and though it was the hardest thing I have ever done the situation would have left my son with a miserable life that I would not be able to love away. His parents are the two loveliest people you could ever meet and every dream I had for him growing up came true. Adoption is not a bad thing, but I had to do what was best for him not for me.
Especially the ending. I watched this expecting it to be a propaganda piece about how "undeserving" unwed mothers should give up their babies to "deserving" adoptive parents (a whole industry revolved around this concept.). I was surprised by the ending, and I imagine the adoption industry was none too happy with this film when it came out in 1958!
I was born to an unwed mother in the 1960s and she gave me up. She regretted it for the rest of her life (I found that out when I finally met her 40 years later.) You are so lucky your mom was able to keep you.
This movie opens the door to the standards and culture of the 1950s. You could see godly standards still prevailed but a much looser more sinful culture was taking over. Chaperone laws for young women were abolished in the late 1930's and this led to much of our societal decay and corruption of innocent naive young women. Read the story of the folk singer Joni Mitchell who gave her baby up for adoption and how it tortured her emotionally for years and how she finally found her daughter. She details the confusing double standards where young women were being exposed to more and more sexy movies and influences. Parents were being pressured to "go along with it" and allow their teen girls unsupervised time on their own with boys. What did they "literally" expect to happen?? Teen pregnancies SHOT UP in the 50s and 60s and unwed mothers homes were full to overflowing. Joni Mitchell couldn't even get into one and was on her own struggling and never told her parents what happened. Then came the social development of "cohabitation" in the late 60s early 70s on having children and not even bothering to get married. Heh this was the new "advanced" Age of Aquarius ra ra ra. We lived thru it and all we boomers experienced its reality, its emotional trauma ect in one way or another. To leave Gods way of doing things is a hard way to tread. Many of us look back and wish we had had strong protective Christian parents or relatives who cared about us enough to protect and guide us. Truly the 50s and 60s were a minefield. Thank God Jesus saved me eventually. To God be the Glory...
@@rosemerrynmcmillan1611Yes, I heard of Joni. Mitchell but I never knew she went through all of this and a pregnancy, thanks for sharing, I'll read her story again and a documentary that has got to be out there, Much love, from South Carolina.💯❤️
@rosemerrynmcmillan1611 Speak for yourself. This boomer disagrees 100%. This movie is Pollyannish, selective memory bullshit. For every story that ended like this, there were 100 unwanted children, many destroyed lives and countless abusive marriages. Stop looking at history with your rose colored rearview mirror. If you weren't a solidly middle class, white Christian male back then, things weren't so great for you.
We'll know that my husband is NOT a scoundrel, if he stays married to me until I die. Or else how'd I know, if a scoundrel married a good woman to have kids and then divorce and throw some money at her ???!! Same goes for the wife. Humans cannot read minds so we have LOVE COVENANTS.
Shirley here. I am 70 and I saw the same thing in the 60's 2 best friend both had steady boyfriend and both girls got pregnant their last year of high school the quit got married. Tied down to early while we where all having fun.
I was a product of an unwed mother in 1960. He married someone else while my twin and i were still in my moth e rs womb. We were beaten and starved for 18 mont h s in foster care until the state adopted us. We almost died. Thsbkfuky my adoptive parents i consider my family. My mother cared for both of us and got pregnant with my brother. We had cloth diapers back then. My mother said i was bruised from head to toe when she picked us up. When she saw my hips they were bruised from someone sticking me with the pins for fun while changing my diaper. Today we are okay. It was 64 years ago. We found her later. All of her four children after us were taken away from her by the state. She died of cancer but i forgave her.
This film leaves you with the realisation that no matter what choices a woman has to make in her life it’s always the woman left to make those choices! We might have the vote we might have equal pay and opportunities (sometimes) but still we have to go through some choices women have been making for centuries. It was painful then and it’s just as painful now😔
Many parents made their daughters place for adoption or abort. We don’t do that in my family. I have 12 grandkids and my 1st great granddaughter is due in July. Love them all.
In India we keep daughters trained to be celibate, thro movies, churches, Hindu temples, mosques etc until they get a marriage license. If not, it is considered a crime, just as it is a crime if I drive without a driver's license .IT IS DANGEROUS TO OTHERS who have to bear our kids and benefit from our kids for 60 to 80 years - even after parents pass away !
Not sure how old you are but he has been in EVERYTHING which is why he looks so familiar 😊he was Maxwells father on The Nanny lol I remember him most from that lol..
@@kimjames6028 since I was a kid through my early adulthood, I don't remember a sitcom I didn't watch. But, as I turned a bit older (sort of answering your question/comment), the addiction was gone. For that reason, I hadn't even heard of this. A cast filled with stars, but I didn't find Vaughn among them.
My mother had me in 1961 she had it hard but I’m so glad she kept me. She was the best mother grandmother and great grandmother there ever was as well as being a fantastic daughter to my grandparents when they needed her and a great sister they loved her so much because she was there when they needed her we miss her and love her so much. 🙏❤️🌹
I really enjoyed this. Robert Vaughn was an excellent actor. He was on Man from U. N. C. L. E. He also had a Ph.D. and wrote some important papers. Spoke out against the war in Vietnam too.
They were the ones that was trash because if a man knows he don't want to marry a woman put a glove on they could also help with the baby do not let her kill the child no one killed them have some compassion these other girls should never marry a man like them.@@ericgregory9478
SPOILER ALERT: Great ending! And not what I expected given the prevailing attitude of the day. A whole industry depended upon convincing "wayward" girls that they didn't deserve to keep their babies and that a nice, adoptive couple could do a better job raising them. I know from firsthand experience how girls were coerced into giving up their babies only to regret it for the rest of their lives. Love how this ended (except that I wish the older couple had offered to help Betty raise her child in exchange for being "grandparents" to her baby, that would be have been perfect.). Bet the adoption industry hated this film because it might convince girls to keep their babies like Betty did.
@rentapasiva You're so very correct. This being in '58 is only because no one would have let the same subject portrayed in the 20's and up. The Little Rascals had numerous orphans and abandoned but we were never clued in as to how and I not that anyone can or has listened over those hot, screaming hormones 😣😥
At seventeen in 1964 I almost got pregnant not before the boy's parents broke us up.. It has affected me since then.. In those days a boy of eighteen listened and obeyed his parents, and we did not have a chance.
@valeriebelleflour3005 My mom was 15 in '64 forced to marry the kid up the street after the embarrassing pregnancy was exposed. Two people that should have never married both being mentally challenged of unknown type in those days. I arrived in '68 despite a horrid marriage thus far in an attempt to make it work I guess. Or possibly my own moms conniving attempt to keep what little of a man/father she had.
How do you " almost get pregnant?" As a Midwife, I can assure you that , had you had sex with the guy you weren't necessarily going to become pregnant....Your comment makes absolutely no sense
My aunt worked over 50 years and gave all her checks to my Uncle right up until her retirement. That’s the way it was in those days. I don’t know why people long for the “ good old days “. It wasn’t good for a lot of people.
In India we keep daughters trained thro movies, churches, Hindu temples, mosques etc NOT to get pregnant until they get a marriage license. It is considered a crime, just as it is a crime if I drive without a driver's license .IT IS DANGEROUS TO OTHERS.
40yrs ago my school friend has a baby, and ultimately her parents made her put her daughter up for adoption. I often had sleepovers at the house and vividly remember my friend talking in her sleep about her baby 💔💔💔
55 years ago my friend gave her baby boy up her the catholic adoption agency sold that baby for 60 thousand 2 years later my girlfriend went in the church to die 2 weeks later she got killed in a car accident
@@jhlfsc 40 years ago was like 1985? I'm thinking more like 60 years ago, although I did know women who lost their kids thru divorce in the 1960s. Before pantyhose & mini skirts we wore girdles, probably in part to impede access, life is interesting. It's been a real hoot. Best Wishes jhlfsc
Nice movie! It shows the difference of years back. Unfortunately, there’s people trying to impress to get over. Both men and women, some are living to fool others. Some are fraudulent, liars and are living a life full of darknesses. Sooo sad. Please be ware and careful. Some are devils dressed as sheeps. I have a family member who got pregnant, had her baby and she’s striving to survive. She’s very fortunate to have a family who supports and help her. She’s studying in the university to become a professional. Years before it wasn’t like this.
Where are the fathers? Just like then, the same holds true today. Father absence in the home has long term, lasting consequences. When a child doesn’t learn to overcome emotions, they stay in them and are forever stuck in ego. The ego will take you down the wrong road convincing you you’re on the right one. There is no other love that can replace a father’s love.
And trauma, unfulfilled needs (for security, love, care) can break character, create narcissists, narcissistic people. We have nowadays real epidemic of such behaviours.
@@jhlfsc My sentiment was in regards to the young lady in the leading role. Where’s her father? Her mother comes off imo as the reason he most likely isn’t around. Many a dominant woman drives the man to cheat or abandon his responsibilities as a father. Baby mamas come to mind today.
The actress who played Mrs Pauly, Dorothy Adams, was the mother of Rachel Ames who played on General Hospital for years as Elizabeth's grandmother and Dr Hardy' s wife.
Saw this one last night and loved it for its clean-living, 50's feel. Oh yes, the colorization of this classic was TOPS too. In a nutshell: its about a simple, country-girl [played to perfection by sweet Norma Moore], who comes to the big city from the country and meets at her departmental store workplace an out and out grifter. He is such a smooth, fast-talking grifter, he sweeps her off her feat, romances and impregnates her, swindles her of her pay-cheques before dropping her. Part of his agenda includes humping the owner of the departmental store [an older woman]. She fires him once she learns of his philandering ways, and a rich socialite whom he is eager to marry for her money. This two-bit role is played by Kathleen Hughes. Robert Vaughn shines in a morally ambiguous role. The film is testament to his mastery at playing dark and delirious characters and, here, he raises the bar once again. Robert was no newcomer to dark characters as he proved earlier in the box-office winner, The Young Philadelphians starring Paul Newman and Barbara Rush. Here he played an alcoholic war victim, grappling with the loss of a leg and taking this discomfiture out on anyone who crossed his path. The Young Philadelphians earned him an Oscar and Golden Globe nod. In 'Magnificent 7', he was superb as the hired gunslinger. To the world, Robert Vaughn will best be remembered as the iconic, suave and sophisticated Napoleon Solo in the hit series "The man from UNCLE" that played for several seasons and spawned several movies for MGM. Robert was an erudite man who was active in Democratic Party Politics and held a PhD in communications.
Child is not a thing one can sell, treat like an object. People who think so created some 50 labs in Ukr. When war started in each was around 100 babies. Due to restrictions buyers couldn't collect them. This situation, lack of deep connection affects the brain, makes baby feel rejected for life time. Child can even die.
My father was transferred to many countries.. One country i worked with several girls who wore wedding rings, they lived in a very modern home for pregnant girls. When these girls started to show their bump, they would resign from their employment. I knew about 3 of them..all babies were adopted. Then when we moved to New Zealand, i worked with a girl who would eventually go to the Salvation Army home for unmarried mothers..bleak and sterile. It taught my a very valuable lesson, be careful when you have sex. The era late 1960's.
😂 I LOVE that basically being forced to marry a latent criminal under duress isn't given a second thought in the plot! The 50's truly was hell for women.
What a cast of characters! Bespeaks the moral code of the time. Oh if Betty knew of the hardships and discrimination she would have to face for years to come she might have been stronger let that child have a better chance at life.
Whatever. I was adopted (in 1962) and believe me, it was NOT a better life. My birthmother always wished she had kept me (her parents made her give me up) and when I met her years later it was clear that it would have been the better choice for ALL of us.
Wow. Just Wow. I was with you until the 'better chance at life' comment. What a harsh and unwarranted statement. Got any research to back that up? I didn't think so.
This character is a powerless girl. A courageous girl would've married the man she loved enough to have a baby with her. Iam not courageous, but Iam strong emotionally because of my parents and so I stayed a virgin until I got married.
imagine being a 21st century jerk in 1958!! that guy played that playboy-mooch-dusty role so well. I didn't think guys like him existed so long ago, this is insane. I really enjoyed this movie
It’s insane because this is just like the ‘Tinder swindler’ and the woman in ‘Who the F did I marry’ from TikTok. It’s insane this was going on over 60 years ago
If any man happens to watch this movie, could you please answer this question...Why are ALL MEN like this? Why arent there any REAL MEN who actually WANT to love and take care of a woman who loves him and takes care of him? I'd REALLY like to know the TRUTH. Im 60 years old, and this happened to me TWICE. I trusted and believed in two men. And i ended up being used, hurt, humiliated, and a single mother. How does a man justify doing this to a woman?
I’m not a man but not all men are like these dudes. But interestingly enough, some men during these years harassed women with impunity. Then Hollywood made movies that portrayed men harassing women with impunity. It was absolutely wrong, but acceptable, apparently.
I hear you sister! Completely broke my heart..changed how I see the world forever. Watching this show I seriously wish I could step into this movies and punch this dude out 🙀Still working on my leftover emotions😂
I mean you no disrespect because I have had men manipulate me into doing things but after it happened to you the first time how, or rather what transpired that enabled it to happen a second time please? Normally I wouldn’t ask because it’s none of my business but you have put it out in the public domain. Not all men are like this btw
I remember the story of few siblings from Poland adopted by an American couple. Seems they were narcissistic, weren't good parents. They separated children, ill treated them. Nightmare instead of 'better' life.
Oh this is the first film I've watched with the colorization. I'd say, I don't like it at all! Everyone looks like they are suffering from some sort of upper eye lid and corners of the mouth condition. 🤪
I actually do wish we could make America great again. Miss old morals and good manners and safe streets and pride in country and love of God and family and country. Men were men and women were women. Amen. ❤
@@jhlfsc criminals are NOT born. An American was indoctrinated to defect to ISIS ! We counsel them until they are healed. We should NEVER get pregnant without a marriage license. It is more dangerous to others than driving without a driver's license.
In these old movies, they never call the paramedics or go to the ER, the doctors always make a house call. When did she have time to get pregnant? She barely kissed him.
That was a really hard decision back then. The homes and people were not that nice in my Country. I grew up in a holiday area and I nearly died having my 1st baby and so did he. I was admitted in labour 12 weeks early and the head Nurse didn’t believe I was married because there was so much fluid in my fingers my wedding ring came off at 10 weeks. She threw me into a room with unwed Mothers, that didn’t bother me. What did was the way they were treated and forced to sign away their babies. A marriage certificate does not make a Mother and they lied, yelled and were cruel. I told one her rights even though I knew the head Nurse would hit me again, back then I thought she had the right to do so. That Mother took her baby home where her Mother had prepared a Nursery. She was happy to support her daughter. I was in Labour for four and a half days, no Doctor was called and my son was barely alive from being held back so long.
@Cult Cinema Classic,❤ Thanks for uploading, I love old Classic Movies like this, I'm a movie Freak with Old Hollywood or Old Movies anywhere and also New Movies and New Releases and I have many favorite Hollywood Movie Stars that I love as well, you have a perfect movie for a good Saturday & Sunday Laid Back Vibes with Norma Moore, Robert Vaughn, Diana D. I see you have many more movies as well, and I already Subscribed and hit that notification bell my and im gonna enjoy your channel, much love from Beaufort South Carolina USA.💯❤️🎥🍷🦋
It's sad because I got pregnant at 17 and it was no big thing because all I had to do was get on food stamps luckily my husband yes husband we got legally married at 18 he had a good job so I didn't get on welfare till yrs later but I was raised it's ok go on welfare like it's nothing I realize now that I don't have to live like that, none of my children live off the system they all work jobs for there family and kids .
I can't believe Norma Moore it's still alive as many of the actors and actresses when you look them up Into my surprise Mel Brooks is still alive as well Is Dick cavett. Enjoy the black and white movie watching from Rochester New York August 12th 2024 ❤
Adorei o filme infelizmente muitas não tiveram essa oportunidade essa garra de querer ter a força determinação pra cuidarem de seus filhos meninas que foram enganadas desde esse tempo em que eu ainda não era nascida sou de 87 e já havia homens maldosos que tiraram o direito dessas moças se casarem virgem com um homem bom honesto que quisessem realmente se casar antes de se relacionarem. E muitas moças morreram fazendo abortos que dó outras tiraram a vida de um inocente por dor ódio do que elas passaram por serem enganadas por esses homens sem caráter. 😢
Trust and believe, it happened a lot back then too. More people now so you see more of it. Where do you think all of those orphans came from? From where do you think all of those adoptive parents adopted their children? How many people out there are still discovering, or have already discovered that their sibling is actually their mother or father? There were a lot of abandoned babies. Also, these are the people who had secret abortions. Certain people just knew how to hide their "sins" better. The people now want you to think life was perfect back then and things like this was so rare. Not rare, just better at hiding.
AMEN!!!!! Exactly what I was thinking when the older couple was talking about how well off they were. Why not offer to be "honorary grandparents" (at their age) and help Betty raise her son. Win/win.
My beautiful Italian mother was pregnant @ 16 in 1956 and the father was 18 and went off into the Air Force, not knowing she was pregnant. She called him and told him as family were telling her to give the baby up for adoption. The father asked for a pass so he could fly to her as he was stationed in Texas. The Air Force gave him a 3 day pass. In those 3 days he married her🥰 They were so in love and ended up having 6 more children 🥰❤️ I am number 6 out of 7 siblings. My Dad was such an amazing man and we had the best childhood ever. My wonderful father passed away a few years ago and I miss him everyday😢 My mom is an amazing women and I’m so thankful she’s still here with us🙏🏻 My father passed just 2 months before their 60th anniversary. They were still madly in love until his last breath with her on this earth ❤️
There are some good men out there and your father sounds like he was one of them
Beautiful story. Thanks for sharing.
@@Naijella86 Thank you❤️ he was truly a wonderful man, husband and father🙏🏻 He was also a police officer and he helped anyone that needed it and would even help get their charges reduced, knowing if the charges were wrong.
Thank you again🌺
@@sunnyboy4553 Thank you so much❤️ and thank you for taking the time to read my long comment🙏🏻🌺
@Kittymay98
You were one of the lucky ones based on Unsolved Mysteries show alone with all its stories of unwed mothers desperate to find the child they'd been forced to part with back in those years when it was "so embarrassing" to a girls family.
Bettie said the key words “A Mothers Love”. With the help of God and her love for her child, she and her son will make it in the world. Awesome movie with many lessons can be taken away from. Thanks.
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Yes, I can agree. ❤
Lesson #1
When women in society are like cheap property with no autonomy of their own, this is the best case scenario.
Marriages were often much harsher sentences then.
God I miss the old days and all the old movies and tv shows that depict those days. And music.
What a movie! It shows reality and the heartbreak of what can happen. Yes it is good for every young person to see this. Girl or boy…….both. Regrets can happen for everybody if the right choices aren’t made. This can be a harsh or beautiful world…..sometimes both. Having God in our lives helps us in all circumstances. Thank you for this movie. This should be shown in high schools to both classes for girls and boys.🙏❤️🕊
We would all fall asleep 😂
@@Froggie757froggiefroggiefroggi a lot of you already fell asleep a long time ago...thats why our world is like it is. bad.
@@tinkerbell2675 of course blame it on the young,that's an intelligent response!
I couldn't give my baby up either. Not easy in those days being a solo mum to a baby. There was no financial help.
I found out when she was 6yrs old that I couldn't have any more children.
I'm thankful that a mother's love was stronger than everything else.
Now I have 2 adult grandchildren as well
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When I was about 6, one of my mum's friends, who turned up at our house with her baby son . I asked, 'Where's Auntie Joan's husband?' My parents told me , 'He ran away.' (True in a way. Joan thought he boyfriend would do the decent thing, but he said, 'I never said I'd get married.' Years later, Mum showed me a letter where Joan said, 'I had a son, and yes, I am keeping him.' It was almost expected that unwed mothers gave their babies for adoption then, and many were guilted about being selfish. 'Do you want your child to be called a bastard?' I think some people even regarded an unwed woman's miscarriage as a 'blessing in disguise, ' though they would not say the same to a widow.
Adoption isn't what your child can do for you it's wanting a better future for your child. I gave my child up for adoption and though it was the hardest thing I have ever done the situation would have left my son with a miserable life that I would not be able to love away. His parents are the two loveliest people you could ever meet and every dream I had for him growing up came true. Adoption is not a bad thing, but I had to do what was best for him not for me.
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Only meant to watch a little bit of the movie then got hooked by the good acting and 1950 vintage everything. Thanks for posting it 🙏❣️
2:05 the guy resembles Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers......
Very daring subject matter for 1958.
5+8 = Rebellion .
thats all that was talked about then , who had gotten pregnant and magazines all had same
It's a daring subject for today too...unfair as well for teenage mums....
Especially the ending. I watched this expecting it to be a propaganda piece about how "undeserving" unwed mothers should give up their babies to "deserving" adoptive parents (a whole industry revolved around this concept.). I was surprised by the ending, and I imagine the adoption industry was none too happy with this film when it came out in 1958!
Yes, 5+8 =13 and rebellion .@@lisalu910
My mom had me out of wedlock in the mid 60’s it was very hard on her but she kept me♥️
I was born to an unwed mother in the 1960s and she gave me up. She regretted it for the rest of her life (I found that out when I finally met her 40 years later.) You are so lucky your mom was able to keep you.
God bless.
@@patmelton43 which god?
@@lisalu910 your mom could not keep her knees together? hOW sad .
@@sesspess The God of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob.
This movie needs to watched by all young girls even today! Heartbreaking!😢
This movie opens the door to the standards and culture of the 1950s. You could see godly standards still prevailed but a much looser more sinful culture was taking over. Chaperone laws for young women were abolished in the late 1930's and this led to much of our societal decay and corruption of innocent naive young women. Read the story of the folk singer Joni Mitchell who gave her baby up for adoption and how it tortured her emotionally for years and how she finally found her daughter. She details the confusing double standards where young women were being exposed to more and more sexy movies and influences. Parents were being pressured to "go along with it" and allow their teen girls unsupervised time on their own with boys. What did they "literally" expect to happen?? Teen pregnancies SHOT UP in the 50s and 60s and unwed mothers homes were full to overflowing. Joni Mitchell couldn't even get into one and was on her own struggling and never told her parents what happened. Then came the social development of "cohabitation" in the late 60s early 70s on having children and not even bothering to get married. Heh this was the new "advanced" Age of Aquarius ra ra ra. We lived thru it and all we boomers experienced its reality, its emotional trauma ect in one way or another. To leave Gods way of doing things is a hard way to tread. Many of us look back and wish we had had strong protective Christian parents or relatives who cared about us enough to protect and guide us. Truly the 50s and 60s were a minefield. Thank God Jesus saved me eventually. To God be the Glory...
@@rosemerrynmcmillan1611 I agree 100% with what you said!
@@kathyjenkins4067Me Too As Well.❤
@@rosemerrynmcmillan1611Yes, I heard of Joni. Mitchell but I never knew she went through all of this and a pregnancy, thanks for sharing, I'll read her story again and a documentary that has got to be out there, Much love, from South Carolina.💯❤️
@rosemerrynmcmillan1611 Speak for yourself. This boomer disagrees 100%. This movie is Pollyannish, selective memory bullshit. For every story that ended like this, there were 100 unwanted children, many destroyed lives and countless abusive marriages.
Stop looking at history with your rose colored rearview mirror. If you weren't a solidly middle class, white Christian male back then, things weren't so great for you.
Scoundrel playbook: 1) sweet talk and empty promises; 2) create division between her and her family; 3) abandon her; if she is lucky.
We'll know that my husband is NOT a scoundrel, if he stays married to me until I die. Or else how'd I know, if a scoundrel married a good woman to have kids and then divorce and throw some money at her ???!! Same goes for the wife. Humans cannot read minds so we have LOVE COVENANTS.
I had 4 friends who got pregnant, in the late 60's. One married, the other's didn't, but kept their child❤
Shirley here. I am 70 and I saw the same thing in the 60's 2 best friend both had steady boyfriend and both girls got pregnant their last year of high school the quit got married. Tied down to early while we where all having fun.
I was a product of an unwed mother in 1960. He married someone else while my twin and i were still in my moth e rs womb. We were beaten and starved for 18 mont h s in foster care until the state adopted us. We almost died.
Thsbkfuky my adoptive parents i consider my family.
My mother cared for both of us and got pregnant with my brother. We had cloth diapers back then. My mother said i was bruised from head to toe when she picked us up. When she saw my hips they were bruised from someone sticking me with the pins for fun while changing my diaper.
Today we are okay. It was 64 years ago. We found her later. All of her four children after us were taken away from her by the state. She died of cancer but i forgave her.
@@bobs1356 Silly ! WATCHING YOUR BABY GROW IS THE best kind of FUN !
@@kathleendobens6648 Such a brave mom who adopted you ! Plz take care of her in her old age.
@@kathleendobens6648I send you love ❤️ I’m so sorry for your pain I always will think of your story when I feel sorry for myself ❤
This film leaves you with the realisation that no matter what choices a woman has to make in her life it’s always the woman left to make those choices! We might have the vote we might have equal pay and opportunities (sometimes) but still we have to go through some choices women have been making for centuries. It was painful then and it’s just as painful now😔
@headron66
And sadly, next and later generations didn't take the obvious truth to heart...
Many parents made their daughters place for adoption or abort. We don’t do that in my family. I have 12 grandkids and my 1st great granddaughter is due in July. Love them all.
In India we keep daughters trained to be celibate, thro movies, churches, Hindu temples, mosques etc until they get a marriage license. If not, it is considered a crime, just as it is a crime if I drive without a driver's license .IT IS DANGEROUS TO OTHERS who have to bear our kids and benefit from our kids for 60 to 80 years - even after parents pass away !
@@hannahnpmungamuri8516 Well babies are innocent and don’t ask to be conceived. God loves all babies. Not for us to judge.
@@hannahnpmungamuri8516how is it dangerous?
This is such a sweet movie. I really loved and enjoyed it. Thank you for putting it up on your channel.
"It's not mine to kill." Wow. A statement for these days.
Actually, it is hers and only hers.
Robert Vaughn's face is very familiar to me, but I believe I had never seen him really acting; man, he's just perfect playing a scoundrel.
Not sure how old you are but he has been in EVERYTHING which is why he looks so familiar 😊he was Maxwells father on The Nanny lol I remember him most from that lol..
@@kimjames6028 since I was a kid through my early adulthood, I don't remember a sitcom I didn't watch. But, as I turned a bit older (sort of answering your question/comment), the addiction was gone. For that reason, I hadn't even heard of this. A cast filled with stars, but I didn't find Vaughn among them.
@@sergioluz9043 understandable 😁
@@sergioluz9043 and he is perfect at playing a scoundrel
He was The Man From UNCLE.
My mother had me in 1961 she had it hard but I’m so glad she kept me. She was the best mother grandmother and great grandmother there ever was as well as being a fantastic daughter to my grandparents when they needed her and a great sister they loved her so much because she was there when they needed her we miss her and love her so much. 🙏❤️🌹
Em português
I really enjoyed this. Robert Vaughn was an excellent actor. He was on Man from
U. N. C. L. E.
He also had a Ph.D. and wrote some important papers. Spoke out against the war in Vietnam too.
he was gorgeous and played a villain so well
It was sad how men got these women with babies when they knew they were not going to marry them, it was not right then they go marry someone else.
They married the kind of girls you bring home to mother. Not loose and fast easy lays...
They were the ones that was trash because if a man knows he don't want to marry a woman put a glove on they could also help with the baby do not let her kill the child no one killed them have some compassion these other girls should never marry a man like them.@@ericgregory9478
@@ericgregory9478 Very judgemental
SPOILER ALERT: Great ending! And not what I expected given the prevailing attitude of the day. A whole industry depended upon convincing "wayward" girls that they didn't deserve to keep their babies and that a nice, adoptive couple could do a better job raising them. I know from firsthand experience how girls were coerced into giving up their babies only to regret it for the rest of their lives. Love how this ended (except that I wish the older couple had offered to help Betty raise her child in exchange for being "grandparents" to her baby, that would be have been perfect.). Bet the adoption industry hated this film because it might convince girls to keep their babies like Betty did.
I was 12 when this movie came out.I'm so glad times have changed.
Times don't change at all. It is the same situation happening today with a different generation.
@rentapasiva
You're so very correct.
This being in '58 is only because no one would have let the same subject portrayed in the 20's and up.
The Little Rascals had numerous orphans and abandoned but we were never clued in as to how and I not that anyone can or has listened over those hot, screaming hormones 😣😥
At seventeen in 1964 I almost got pregnant not before the boy's parents broke us up.. It has affected me since then.. In those days a boy of eighteen listened and obeyed his parents, and we did not have a chance.
Sounds like his parents were smart
@valeriebelleflour3005
My mom was 15 in '64 forced to marry the kid up the street after the embarrassing pregnancy was exposed. Two people that should have never married both being mentally challenged of unknown type in those days. I arrived in '68 despite a horrid marriage thus far in an attempt to make it work I guess. Or possibly my own moms conniving attempt to keep what little of a man/father she had.
How do you " almost get pregnant?" As a Midwife, I can assure you that , had you had sex with the guy you weren't necessarily going to become pregnant....Your comment makes absolutely no sense
It's unbelievable that any young woman would just hand all her pay checks to her boyfriend.
Is it?
My aunt worked over 50 years and gave all her checks to my Uncle right up until her retirement. That’s the way it was in those days. I don’t know why people long for the “ good old days “. It wasn’t good for a lot of people.
Requirement for all girls to see. Monsters are everywhere.
And women are saints 🤣😅😂🤮🤡
In India we keep daughters trained thro movies, churches, Hindu temples, mosques etc NOT to get pregnant until they get a marriage license. It is considered a crime, just as it is a crime if I drive without a driver's license .IT IS DANGEROUS TO OTHERS.
I wish there had been a sequel!!
Robert Vaughn is so oily sincere that you almost believe every word he says.
He’s a good man
I’ve never seen Jeanne Cooper as a young woman. Only seen her in the YR as Mrs. Chandler.
Thank you for your comment, had a not future comment I would’ve never known that was Jeanne Cooper from the young and the restless.
Mrs Horton is Miss Chancellor.
Yes, I meant Mrs Chancelor. She was the woman in charge but I’d never seen her that young. Thank you, @amiek9269
Didn't know she was in this movie.
She's been in some Western series too 😊
40yrs ago my school friend has a baby, and ultimately her parents made her put her daughter up for adoption. I often had sleepovers at the house and vividly remember my friend talking in her sleep about her baby 💔💔💔
55 years ago my friend gave her baby boy up her the catholic adoption agency sold that baby for 60 thousand 2 years later my girlfriend went in the church to die 2 weeks later she got killed in a car accident
40 years ago it still was the better option unless you were wealthy.
@@jhlfsc
Lol 40?
@@user-sj7xv1er1u
Yes, she said 40 years ago...
@@jhlfsc
40 years ago was like 1985? I'm thinking more like 60 years ago, although I did know women who lost their kids thru divorce in the 1960s.
Before pantyhose & mini skirts we wore girdles, probably in part to impede access, life is interesting. It's been a real hoot.
Best Wishes jhlfsc
Nice movie! It shows the difference of years back. Unfortunately, there’s people trying to impress to get over. Both men and women, some are living to fool others. Some are fraudulent, liars and are living a life full of darknesses. Sooo sad. Please be ware and careful. Some are devils dressed as sheeps. I have a family member who got pregnant, had her baby and she’s striving to survive. She’s very fortunate to have a family who supports and help her. She’s studying in the university to become a professional. Years before it wasn’t like this.
I loved this film. It touch my heart . My name is Luiz and I am from Brasil. Thank you!
@luizantoni
If you really were from Brazil, you would know how to spell it correctly. 😂
Brasil is the Portuguese spelling (they speak Portuguese in Brasil/Brazil). Both spellings are correct. @@hookasmokincaterpiller
👍👍👍💐💐💐💐 An emotional but GOOD example for those in a certain situation, even now in 2024 !!
Within His Love 💝🎯
Sincerely in Christ Jesus, 💖🕊️
Robert V plays his part well...creepy touchy feely
His partwas what was known at the time as a, "wolf,".
Where are the fathers? Just like then, the same holds true today. Father absence in the home has long term, lasting consequences. When a child doesn’t learn to overcome emotions, they stay in them and are forever stuck in ego. The ego will take you down the wrong road convincing you you’re on the right one. There is no other love that can replace a father’s love.
And trauma, unfulfilled needs (for security, love, care) can break character, create narcissists, narcissistic people. We have nowadays real epidemic of such behaviours.
The fathers, like the one in this story were most likely latent criminals who did the women and the baby a small miracle by staying away.
@@jhlfsc My sentiment was in regards to the young lady in the leading role. Where’s her father? Her mother comes off imo as the reason he most likely isn’t around. Many a dominant woman drives the man to cheat or abandon his responsibilities as a father. Baby mamas come to mind today.
@@larkatmic Her father died early I guess. We should not blame dominant women .We need'em
The actress who played Mrs Pauly, Dorothy Adams, was the mother of Rachel Ames who played on General Hospital for years as Elizabeth's grandmother and Dr Hardy' s wife.
“Oh, I knew something was missing from my life”. 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Mom knows what up!
He had the looks of a major movie star, but was a great tv star. Man from UNCLE.
Love the original Barbie style bathing suits. Same year Barbie was born, or invented.
Barbie was invented in 1959 not 1958.
Saw this one last night and loved it for its clean-living, 50's feel. Oh yes, the colorization of this classic was TOPS too. In a nutshell: its about a simple, country-girl [played to perfection by sweet Norma Moore], who comes to the big city from the country and meets at her departmental store workplace an out and out grifter. He is such a smooth, fast-talking grifter, he sweeps her off her feat, romances and impregnates her, swindles her of her pay-cheques before dropping her. Part of his agenda includes humping the owner of the departmental store [an older woman]. She fires him once she learns of his philandering ways, and a rich socialite whom he is eager to marry for her money. This two-bit role is played by Kathleen Hughes. Robert Vaughn shines in a morally ambiguous role. The film is testament to his mastery at playing dark and delirious characters and, here, he raises the bar once again. Robert was no newcomer to dark characters as he proved earlier in the box-office winner, The Young Philadelphians starring Paul Newman and Barbara Rush. Here he played an alcoholic war victim, grappling with the loss of a leg and taking this discomfiture out on anyone who crossed his path. The Young Philadelphians earned him an Oscar and Golden Globe nod. In 'Magnificent 7', he was superb as the hired gunslinger. To the world, Robert Vaughn will best be remembered as the iconic, suave and sophisticated Napoleon Solo in the hit series "The man from UNCLE" that played for several seasons and spawned several movies for MGM. Robert was an erudite man who was active in Democratic Party Politics and held a PhD in communications.
Good movie. Great for a rainy night.
Child is not a thing one can sell, treat like an object. People who think so created some 50 labs in Ukr. When war started in each was around 100 babies. Due to restrictions buyers couldn't collect them. This situation, lack of deep connection affects the brain, makes baby feel rejected for life time. Child can even die.
My father was transferred to many countries..
One country i worked with several girls who wore wedding rings, they lived in a very modern home for pregnant girls. When these girls started to show their bump, they would resign from their employment. I knew about 3 of them..all babies were adopted.
Then when we moved to New Zealand, i worked with a girl who would eventually go to the Salvation Army home for unmarried mothers..bleak and sterile.
It taught my a very valuable lesson, be careful when you have sex.
The era late 1960's.
Always choose life ❤
😂 I LOVE that basically being forced to marry a latent criminal under duress isn't given a second thought in the plot!
The 50's truly was hell for women.
Agree with you.
@jhlfsc
And the 60's and 70's opened the uglier door of closeted abuse against these gullible girls and their babies.
It’s to bad the color is off… :( but I love all old movies!🍿
@PeaceLove197
I know, everyone looks like they're wearing orange eye shadow.
What a cast of characters! Bespeaks the moral code of the time. Oh if Betty knew of the hardships and discrimination she would have to face for years to come she might have been stronger let that child have a better chance at life.
Whatever. I was adopted (in 1962) and believe me, it was NOT a better life. My birthmother always wished she had kept me (her parents made her give me up) and when I met her years later it was clear that it would have been the better choice for ALL of us.
Wow. Just Wow. I was with you until the 'better chance at life' comment. What a harsh and unwarranted statement. Got any research to back that up?
I didn't think so.
Isn't that Billie Bird visiting the jail cell? She was a great comic actress when she got older.
Yes, I noticed that was her. She had a long career.
Her name went up.
The answer is adopt Betty with her baby !
Awesome !!
That's exactly what I was thinking!
Our schools especially high school needs to show this film
A wonderful movie, courageous girl And a truly wonderful understanding loving couple.
This character is a powerless girl. A courageous girl would've married the man she loved enough to have a baby with her. Iam not courageous, but Iam strong emotionally because of my parents and so I stayed a virgin until I got married.
imagine being a 21st century jerk in 1958!! that guy played that playboy-mooch-dusty role so well. I didn't think guys like him existed so long ago, this is insane. I really enjoyed this movie
@ZNMelowLeloNeka there is nothing new under the sun; all things being done, have already been done. The Bible says this.
Jerk maybe a 21st Century term, but they have existed long before that, under different names. In 1958, they were called cads.
It’s insane because this is just like the ‘Tinder swindler’ and the woman in ‘Who the F did I marry’ from TikTok. It’s insane this was going on over 60 years ago
@@Naijella86
It has been going on since the dawn of mankind. Nothing is new.
If any man happens to watch this movie, could you please answer this question...Why are ALL MEN like this? Why arent there any REAL MEN who actually WANT to love and take care of a woman who loves him and takes care of him? I'd REALLY like to know the TRUTH. Im 60 years old, and this happened to me TWICE. I trusted and believed in two men. And i ended up being used, hurt, humiliated, and a single mother. How does a man justify doing this to a woman?
I’m not a man but not all men are like these dudes. But interestingly enough, some men during these years harassed women with impunity. Then Hollywood made movies that portrayed men harassing women with impunity. It was absolutely wrong, but acceptable, apparently.
I hear you sister! Completely broke my heart..changed how I see the world forever. Watching this show I seriously wish I could step into this movies and punch this dude out 🙀Still working on my leftover emotions😂
Bărbații de fel sunt vânători aleargă după multe trofee......
I dated a man for 2 weeks and he asked me to din ner ..he started getting grabby and I told him to stop ..I got my purse and left ..
I mean you no disrespect because I have had men manipulate me into doing things but after it happened to you the first time how, or rather what transpired that enabled it to happen a second time please? Normally I wouldn’t ask because it’s none of my business but you have put it out in the public domain. Not all men are like this btw
I remember the story of few siblings from Poland adopted by an American couple. Seems they were narcissistic, weren't good parents. They separated children, ill treated them. Nightmare instead of 'better' life.
I believe Mrs Horton, matron of the unwed mother home, is Catherine from Young and the Restless. 🤔
Correct.
I can't believe she didn't even protest when Gertie suggested she work st strip town.
Oh this is the first film I've watched with the colorization. I'd say, I don't like it at all! Everyone looks like they are suffering from some sort of upper eye lid and corners of the mouth condition. 🤪
I actually do wish we could make America great again. Miss old morals and good manners and safe streets and pride in country and love of God and family and country. Men were men and women were women. Amen. ❤
Yeah, it's a real sin we can't go back to a time when having to marry a latent criminal under duress was the "moral" thing to do to a woman.🇺🇸❤
Amen!!!
@@jhlfsc criminals are NOT born. An American was indoctrinated to defect to ISIS ! We counsel them until they are healed. We should NEVER get pregnant without a marriage license. It is more dangerous to others than driving without a driver's license.
Everything was more hidden then. I remember.
In these old movies, they never call the paramedics or go to the ER, the doctors always make a house call. When did she have time to get pregnant? She barely kissed him.
There were no paramedics or even 911 back then. Drs made Housecalls if you were too sick to come in. @pauladouglas9
That's because , the doctors always made house calls .
GOOD MOVIE, SECOND TIME I HAVE SEEN IT, PITY A SEQUEL WAS NOT THOUGHT OF, PARTICULARLY WITH SO MUCH MORE STORY TO TELL, GOOD ACTORS, THANK YOU.
I love screenplay writers. They call him Don. Like Don Jaun❤❤❤❤❤❤😅
This wasn't even a percent close to the reality of being pregnant out of wedlock in the 50s or 60s.
Emoționant ! Mi- a plăcut , filmele vechi au o aură de nostalgie ❤❤❤❤
Such a great little movie! I loved it.❤
What a jerk. Used wo m en and didnt even think about what he did to th e m.
Visalia was a nice, safe place back in the day.
What is it like now.
@@ilahildasissac1943, It is not as nice as in 1980, but still nicer than Nashville West, Fresburg, or Molesto.
@@bboucharde These must be small California towns, I am from Chicago, and never heard of them.
Don was hardly a boy, he duped her into driving the getaway car.
That was a really hard decision back then. The homes and people were not that nice in my Country. I grew up in a holiday area and I nearly died having my 1st baby and so did he. I was admitted in labour 12 weeks early and the head Nurse didn’t believe I was married because there was so much fluid in my fingers my wedding ring came off at 10 weeks. She threw me into a room with unwed Mothers, that didn’t bother me. What did was the way they were treated and forced to sign away their babies. A marriage certificate does not make a Mother and they lied, yelled and were cruel. I told one her rights even though I knew the head Nurse would hit me again, back then I thought she had the right to do so. That Mother took her baby home where her Mother had prepared a Nursery. She was happy to support her daughter. I was in Labour for four and a half days, no Doctor was called and my son was barely alive from being held back so long.
So glad you survived all this,my sincere respect and all the best to you, greetings from Germany ❤
No One desefrves to be hit or yelled at , a life is precious and special
@Cult Cinema Classic,❤ Thanks for uploading, I love old Classic Movies like this, I'm a movie Freak with Old Hollywood or Old Movies anywhere and also New Movies and New Releases and I have many favorite Hollywood Movie Stars that I love as well, you have a perfect movie for a good Saturday & Sunday Laid Back Vibes with Norma Moore, Robert Vaughn, Diana D. I see you have many more movies as well, and I already Subscribed and hit that notification bell my and im gonna enjoy your channel, much love from Beaufort South Carolina USA.💯❤️🎥🍷🦋
I am glad she kept her baby 👶 💕 😌
It would have been nice if she befriended the would be adoptive couple and they became surrogate grandparents.
Why should an illegitimate child without a father be kept?
Such a sweet movie. I enjoyed it. 🍿
I'm surprised when young people are on this channel I really am❤
You know they had to be turned on to the black and white movies
When a boy calls you Baby and you just met him ....i dont think so
Robert Vaughn!
I think a great ending would have been if the older couple took mother and baby home. They would have been terrific grandparents!❤
You can tell the age of a movie by how much a payphone costs.
It's sad because I got pregnant at 17 and it was no big thing because all I had to do was get on food stamps luckily my husband yes husband we got legally married at 18 he had a good job so I didn't get on welfare till yrs later but I was raised it's ok go on welfare like it's nothing I realize now that I don't have to live like that, none of my children live off the system they all work jobs for there family and kids .
These trolls are really something.
I’m glad to hear you got married; it’s always nice hearing about teenage mothers that made it work and married the man that impregnated them
I wish this was shown in Black & white. The color looks to funny and fake.
Love old movies
@spanz21
Another uploader has it in b&w as I watched that version.
Omg that eyeshadow colonization was horrid
I wondered why everybody had orange eyeshadow.
I'm glad Betty changed her mind!
THANK U, CULT CINEMA CLASSICS, 4 THIS HEART FELT MOVIE ❣️ WELL, APPRECIATED ❣️
The film also shows a narcissist - that guy. He got exposed and bailed
Отличный фильм, Спасибо!
I can't believe Norma Moore it's still alive as many of the actors and actresses when you look them up
Into my surprise Mel Brooks is still alive as well
Is Dick cavett.
Enjoy the black and white movie watching from Rochester New York August 12th 2024
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Great acting. Love the ending.
Maybe they could have asked her to live with them and become the child's grandparents instead?
❤ I agree. Helping a mother and child is more beautiful 😍
good movie. but honestly, it would've been better if iit didn't get colored ☺️
Beautiful thank you
Adorei o filme infelizmente muitas não tiveram essa oportunidade essa garra de querer ter a força determinação pra cuidarem de seus filhos meninas que foram enganadas desde esse tempo em que eu ainda não era nascida sou de 87 e já havia homens maldosos que tiraram o direito dessas moças se casarem virgem com um homem bom honesto que quisessem realmente se casar antes de se relacionarem. E muitas moças morreram fazendo abortos que dó outras tiraram a vida de um inocente por dor ódio do que elas passaram por serem enganadas por esses homens sem caráter. 😢
I love the way we dressed while pregnant back then, modest.
What judge would give out the sentence of marry the unwed mother or go to jail for robbery?
Same ones that use the same assinine tactics to try to get men to pay child support...
This stuff unfortunately happens more now because society has normalized it....
Trust and believe, it happened a lot back then too. More people now so you see more of it. Where do you think all of those orphans came from? From where do you think all of those adoptive parents adopted their children? How many people out there are still discovering, or have already discovered that their sibling is actually their mother or father? There were a lot of abandoned babies. Also, these are the people who had secret abortions. Certain people just knew how to hide their "sins" better. The people now want you to think life was perfect back then and things like this was so rare. Not rare, just better at hiding.
Чудесное исполнение,очень трогательный фильм.Спасибо.❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for this movie
Good movie❣️Loved the ending❣️🫶
Is that Robert Vaughn?
The manager is 30 years old at most...not old enough to be his mother! Guess that girl is 16🙄
I would say the giirl was about 19 or 20.
The level of sarcasm at 16:54 is soo 2024!
Put 'em on your feet, give your dogs a treat. What a comfortable shoe!"😅
Hai Mike👸❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂💃
@@helenpoornima5126😊
Instead of taking people's babies, all these people could help the single mothers to raise their children....
AMEN!!!!! Exactly what I was thinking when the older couple was talking about how well off they were. Why not offer to be "honorary grandparents" (at their age) and help Betty raise her son. Win/win.
@joannajones8533-I totally agree with you!
I've tried to watch this on my TV, but it keeps freezing! I hope I have better luck on my pc.
Une solution qui aurait arrangé tout le monde, que le couple devienne les grands-parents adoptifs 😊
I thought that too
Love Linda’s phone!