Amy-Rosabella has sex with a man to whom she is not married, and she gets pregnant. No way to change that part of the plot. No way to simply let the sex between unmarried people just be implied, as in, say, Carousel and The Pajama Game. Movie musicals were family entertainment.
Even in the late 1960s, it was not essential to the plot that Fannie and Nick were having sex before they were married, or that Bill Sikes and Nancy have sex. It was not something that had to be discussed. When you came home from seeing those movies with your children, they were not going to ask questions about pre-marital sex between those characters. |
