Gotta give Chad credit. Snagging himself a hot underage girl for a wife. I just checked his age as I knew he had to be at least 30 when he did the film. Also, what I found amusing was that even though she was 17, her parents had no problem with her smoking but were freaked out about her making out with boys. Funny values.
shareAnd Christina was 18. If you're going to go by his age go by hers too.
Almost all teens smoked back then. So did their parents. I started smoking at 15 in about that same time frame and my parents didn't say squat about it.
shareWas she 18 when the movie was filmed or when it was released? Back up the filming from 6 months to a year and how old was she?
shareI believe Christina Ferrare was 17 and Chad Everett 30 at the time of filming. The Linda character was depicted as 17, nearly 18. Everett's chatacter's age is, to the best of my knowledge, never indicated. To me he looks to be in his late twenties to early thirties.
In my opinion this "relationship" is badly presented in the film. It comes across as quite implausible and not just because of the age difference.
Of course, this is just one of many weaknesses. At the same time, I feel the movie is at least somewhat enjoyable mainly for its camp value.
You have to remember, this really was a different era. A lot of older films depicted men in their 30s (or older) romancing teenagers.
In The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, a judge actually ORDERS Cary Grant to date her sister, high school student Shirley Temple. (Others: Susan Slept Here, Daddy Long Legs, That Hagen Girl, the "Tammy" series, etc.)
I think back then before women really entered the work force, it was considered ideal for a girl to get married ASAP. I imagine a mature man could marry her right out of school and train her to run his household the way he wanted it. Now it just has the "EWWW" factor.
The good old days! I remember when I was in tenth grade, the hottest looking girl who was 15 was dating a guy 22. No one said boo about it.
sharebworm76 says > In The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, a judge actually ORDERS Cary Grant to date her sister, high school student Shirley Temple. (Others: Susan Slept Here, Daddy Long Legs, That Hagen Girl, the "Tammy" series, etc.)Well, to be fair, it was a ruse to get her to STOP crushing on him. She was lovesick and they thought she'd soon lose interest. If they resisted, she'd only dig in her heels and never give him up. It was a bit of reverse psychology.
I think back then before women really entered the work force, it was considered ideal for a girl to get married ASAP. I imagine a mature man could marry her right out of school and train her to run his household the way he wanted it. Now it just has the "EWWW" factor.That may have been true in prior decades but, based on what I've read, by the late sixties things had changed considerably. Even in this movie, she's supposed to be a very modern girl. Suddenly reverting to the 'old fashioned' values of her parents doesn't seem to fit the rest of the story. When she tells her mom that she too had married at about the same age and that she had everything, I cringed because it didn't sound like something the character would ever say.