Mad Men at the Movies, Pt. 2: Visual Echoes

This will hopefully be an ongoing project of pairing Mad Men with its cinematic predecessors (and sometimes its successors too) whether their apparent similarity was intended as such or not by the series creators.

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Mad Imitation of Sirk

The Sirkian melodrama aspect of the show is no longer as present, but while it was there, it was quite enthralling. Betty and Lora are the beautiful, young, absent type of mother. The suburban housewife, and once a fashion model, Betty is emotionally unequipped to adequately fullfil her role as a mother. The career oriented Lora is physically, and therefore emotionally, away to...