A Fine Romance

So over this short Easter break I have been wathcing a lot of old movies, mainly musicals. I just moved to a new place and they have free cable. Lucky me. Anyway, as I was saying, I have been watching a lot of old musicals and most of them were starring Doris Day, the sweetheart of the silver screen. A common theme of musicals is falling in love, this may not be the main story line but it is one of the back stories that happens alongside the main plot. To me these musicals are epitomes of the perfect romance or at least my idea of a perfect romance. Not only do they contain the innocent, beautiful heroine but they also have great soundtracks! The one thing I have found that these films lack are an apparent death, at least most of them, but they have the other necessary requirements; a recognition, maybe of the lead's true role in life or a number of things, then there is the quest, a search for the characters perfect break, and finally the piece de resistance, a happy ending. So we have most of the requirements covered, now to the peripherals. We've got sex(implied of course), marriage, descent when the lead hits rock bottom and ends up washing dishes in a fancy hotel just for room and board, adoption as is the case for Bing Crosby in Here Comes the Groom when he brings a pair of French orphans back to the states, and the last one I will list is sexual innocence which is a pervading theme throughout most of the older musicals. So as I have just listed all of the reasons why I believe these Doris Day musicals are perfect romances, I will sign off and continue watching Lucky Me.