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| Title: | If You Are Fit To Marry | |
| Original caption: | If you are fit to marry California law says you must have a certificate of health to get married See this vital production! Mis-mating, infidelity and organic disease spell unhappiness and divorce "Come up and see me sometime" "Oh! What a mama! Wonder if I have a chance?" Advice -- Do not get married unless you are MAN enough . . .Rules for newly married couples You are man and wife. Do as you please. . . May their matrimonial waves never be stormy. Love, honor, compatibility....three necessities of wedded bliss "My! What a man! Wonder if I can handle him?" 100% healthy. This man has passed all the marriage rules. A great demand for him. | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | 1942 | |
| Format: | Poster | |
| Source: | Library of Congress | |
| Control no.: | LC #USF/33/13256-M3 | |
| Keywords: | California; Eugenics; Heredity; Jurisprudence; Marriage; Movies; Physical Disability; Popular Culture; Sexuality | |
| Topics: | n/a | |
| Note: | Thanks to Martin S. Pernick. This image appeared in his 1996 book, The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915. |