I sometimes like watching old time college movies, the ones where pledges actually wear beanies and everyone walks around with huge amounts of repressed sexual energy.
High Time is a movie about a tycoon going back to finish college. Bing Crosby brings it off. Rodney Dangerfield's college movie was in some ways a remake of this one.
In
Daddy Longlegs , the millionaire played by Fred Astaire sponsors a lovely French orphan to college and ends up romancing her.
Of course, movie morality is pretty pliable. In
It Happens Every Spring , Ray Millands character finds a way to cheat at baseball and joins the majors. He gets away with it and gets the girl.
I'll pull some more examples later.
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12-19-2004, 11:17 PM
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