Miss Victorian And Miss Modern (1937)

Full title reads: “Miss Victorian and Miss Modern“. A meeting between a Victorian lady and thoroughly modern girl. Actress Tosca Bissing (currently playing character of ’Mrs Bridget Blair’ in ’Parnell’ at new theatre) is Miss Victorian; she wears period dress. Miss Modern is a glamorous, chain smoking blonde in shorts and halter neck, carrying a tennis racket! Various shots of Tosca and Miss Modern in a Victorian living room set. They debate the pros and cons of life for women today The conversation is full of wise cracks (Tosca: “There was a time every woman darned her husband’s socks“ Miss Modern: “Now she socks her darned husband!“). It covers topics such as; fashion, gossip, make-up, marriage and women’s new found independence. In the end Tosca is won over by modernity. MUSIC: Do It Again. Farrar. De Wolfe. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.