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From Pants To Pearls: Rodgers And Hammerstein’S Affect On Post Wwii Women, Alison Dees
From Pants To Pearls: Rodgers And Hammerstein’S Affect On Post Wwii Women, Alison Dees
DISCOVERY: Georgia State Honors College Undergraduate Research Journal
With the ending of World War II, the returning American veterans forced working women out of their war-time jobs and back to the home where they were to become views and mothers. During this time of transition, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein formed a partnership through which they would create musicals that were very different from the typical Pre-1945 musicals which featured all male casts and songs dealing with what it was like to be in war.
The new musicals featured a heroic main character that always falls for the dainty girl next door. This girl next door would always …