“There was a time when I was deeply in love with America, a love that was shaken, though, to a degree, by wars and by Hiroshima, and by the things that happened afterwards, McCarthyism and so on...” Douglas Sirk (Jon Halliday, Sirk on Sirk)
Among Sirk's early films for Universal is this “trilogy of little American stories,” color musicals that are considerably lighter in subject matter but no less graceful in mise-en-scene than Sirk's later masterworks. The Americana Trilogy reveals the director's concerns with the moral quality of American domestic life--here scrutinized for humorous effect.
