Bediquette on TV in the 50s

In the 1950s (and before that time) American T.V. shows would not dare to show a married couple sleeping in the same bed...oooh taboo.

Did they do the same in the movies? (I can't really recall any 50s era movies I've seen right now). I'm assuming that in real homes parents slept together, not just in the sense that they had sex but that they shared a bed. So in homes with a married couple and children, the children must have known that their parents slept in the same bed. I wonder if they thought it was odd that Lucy and Ricky did not.

So in times before television they had theater. Were seperate beds used in plays as well?

educate me!

I was thinking about that too...so then what about the large beds that royalty slept in? Was that just a matter of class?

when I was young I was a big fan of I love Lucy. I rember when Lucy became pregnant I wondered to myself, "how? they don't sleep in the same bed!"

But what if you get stuck in the middle?

That might stain the duvet cover though.

Were seperate beds the "norm" then?

mr and mrs wilson had seperate beds

add:
old movies from the same period did not have seperate beds (usually)

streetcar named desire didnt have seperate beds

[Edited on May 09, 2005 by scrantonian]

No, people mostly slept together, as far as I know. Both sets of my grandparents did. Of course, I have ten biological aunts and uncles.

so when did they decide that sleeping in the bed was inappropriate?

Both sets of my grandparents slept in seperate beds too, but I only have 3 or so biological aunts and uncles... my grandparents were seriously lacking in the getting busy department.

I do know that the Flintstones were the first couple to be shown on tv who shared a bed.

that Wilma, I always knew she was a freak...and Betty Rubble? goddess.

[Edited on May 09, 2005 by Koleeta]

My parents (in their 70s now) have always slept in the same bed. They were married in the 50's. They are about as 'normal' as anyone could be. The twin beds thing (sometimes called 'hollywood' beds) was more for show on the tee-vee. Another reason to think of tv as an utter distortion of a lie of a hallucination.

That might be true...I lived with my grandparents when I was really young and I slept on one of a pair of really old twin beds.

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