Remember her in 'It's A Wonderful Life'? James Stewart was the epitome of - not necessarily Ivy cool - but a kind of stand-up rectitude; not unlike his buddy Henry Fonda. And the women in this world had a role to play, too. They get slightly overlooked IMO.
I lusted after her as a youngin'. She played Donna Stone in a series of the time -- MD's wife. Pearls while vacuuming. The whole thing. Middle-Class woman liberated by Technology. Americans on the advance. Poor 'uddled broke English to paraphrase yr Bard, all on ration cards. Americans getting the spoils.
Good times.
yes, she was a much underrated hottie due to her always being so "proper and buttoned up". But absolutely gorgeous in her prime