Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Polly”
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Veronica Wells
Why they decided kept it in the ‘50’s
Though the movie was released in 1989, and Allen originally thought to make it more modern, with modern dances, etc. The team eventually decided setting it in the ‘50’s would lend more to the feel-good message the film was trying to promote. Here’s what Debbie Allen had to say about it:
“But I think placing it in the 1950s allows it to keep a certain charm in terms of the wholesomeness of the piece. If you did it today, you would have to get into a lot more serious issues, like drugs.”
Yeah drugs in Polly or Pollyanna would have been a bit too much.
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