Original Swingers: Hollywood's Postwar Bachelor-Pad Cycle.

Romantic comedy films; Bachelors; Apartments in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- History -- 1961-1970; Motion pictures -- History -- 1951-1960; Tender Trap, The (Film); Come Blow Your Horn (Film); Pillow Talk (Film)

A cycle of romantic comedies made in the post-World War II era took the swinging "bachelor pad" as its subject and setting, using the metaphor to initiate consideration of other pertinent issues of gender and sexuality during a period of significant social transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]