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Raymond De Felitta: '30s Charm

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Marc Myers
Jul 30, 2019
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There's no such thing as pre-war charm, except in the movies. Pre-war means the Great Depression, when one in four U.S. adults was out of work and misery was spread thin. During the 1930s, to boost the optimism of glum movie-goers, Hollywood created a Gothamized world in which most film characters were largely untouched by the stock-market crash or bank…

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