January 1946
Tuesday 1
Happy New Year. Went to work for half a day. At night I went to the pictures to see "Women in Bondage"
Wednesday 2
Stayed off work to do the shopping for my mother. She has flu. At night I went back with our Joyce.
Thursday 3
I never went to work. Bought 2 hair slides. At night went to pictures "Nob Hill"
Friday 4
I went back to work. At night I went in Joan Wrights house while her mother & father went to the "Plaza"
Saturday 5
Went to work for half a day & in the afternoon I went to see the serial "The Adventures of Smiling Jack"
Sunday 6
Stayed in until night then went to our Joyce's
The intention is for me to tell you all a little more about what is written in the diary - whether it be about the films mum went to see or the places she visited.
She left school in 1945 aged 14. She refers to "work" through out the diary I am pretty sure it was the Dunlop factory, in Speke making Green Flash plimsolls as worn by Fred Perry. Mum also worked at Bryant & Mays in Speke making matches but I think this was later
Mum loved her films and she collected film star photos - she was at the pictures at least once a week and straight off the blocks in 1946- Women in Bondage (that was a tricky Google search I can tell you)
Released in 1943 the film is about Margot Bracken who returns to Germany after years of absence...she is horrified at the degraded status which has been forced on to women in her homeland. She and another woman speak out against the terrorist regime in place and are imprisoned. Pagan baptisms, "mercy" killings, sterilizations, government-encouraged vice and the cruelties of the Gestapo are only a few of the practices they see or endure.
BLIMEY - heavy stuff for a 14 year old.......
1945 colour film about a Barbary Coast saloon keeper starring George Raft and Joan Bennett. Part musical and part drama. This film was one of the most popular releases at the US box office in 1945
The diary tells us that Joan's parents were at the "Plaza" - this was a cinema in Allerton, Liverpool which sadly closed in 1971.
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