Category: housewife

‘Housewife’ From 1934: A Pre-Code Crossover

Commentary “Housewife” is a 1934 film starring George Brent, Ann Dvorak, and a young Bette Davis. To be accurate, all three of the lead actors are young here, but Bette is noticeably more youthful than in her later, more famous roles. Movies from the early 1930s have a distinct style, and they offer fascinating insight…


Woman Posts Diary Entries of 1957 Stay-at-Home Mom on TikTok–and They’re Hilariously Relatable

A housewife’s old diary from 1957 was dredged up at a thrift store in west Tennessee, and the contents are a goldmine of vintage nostalgia and delight. A local woman named Kaitlyn Sawyer discovered the diary, and decided to share excerpts from it on TikTok. Within weeks, her videos were going viral. Her followers simply couldn’t get…