The kids graduated from high school in 1937 and the film ends before the end of World War II. Other than that we are not given specific dates for many of the different scenes.
Regardless, the scene in the hotel room in Florida, Tim is speaking with Vicky on the telephone. I am not an expert but it seems to me that the telephone that he is speaking on is a style that did not exist at that time. (An anachronism)
Can anyone else give me back me up on that?
That type of phone was popular in the early to mid '50s. In "All That Heaven Allows" made in 1955 Jane Wyman uses the same type of phone except it's white. Joan Crawford has one in her bedroom in "Torch Song" made in 1953. Color Western Electric desk phones came out in 1954.
shareso that WAS an anachronism...!
shareAnachronisms belong on this page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047574/goofs
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Drake
FYI
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047574/goofs
I'm thinking, Old Acquaintance with Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins from 1943. They are on the phone a lot in the movie. I haven't seen it in over 1-2 years but I'm sure that when they live in NYC, they do not speak on phones that are big boxes on the wall where you have to speak in it. They would have those big banana ones I think, so is that the kind of phones they should have used in this movie?
If yes, it is a big goof :)