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{{quote|''"It's grand to be an Englishman in 1910
''King Edward's on the throne, it's the age of men!"''|George Banks, "The Life I Lead", ''[[Mary Poppins]]''}}
|George Banks, "The Life I Lead", ''[[Mary Poppins]]''}}
 
The long hot Indian summer between the death of [[Queen Victoria]] and the start of [[World War I]]. A time of elegant tea parties, absurd women's hats, [[Upper Class Wit]]s, ridiculous [[Flying Machine]]s and ([[Titanic|mostly]]) unsinkable ships.
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* ''[[Titanic]]'' (several versions; the Winslet / DiCaprio one, and also the ones with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Barbara Stanwyck) (also ''Titanic [[The Musical]]'')
* Quite a few musicals and romantic comedies made in the 1940's and 1950's (also fits [[The Gay Nineties]]).
** ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis]]'' ([[Judy Garland]]/ Margaret O'Brien)
** ''Bitter Sweet'' (Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy).
** ''The Emperor Waltz'' (Joan Fontaine/Bing Crosby).