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* FairForItsDay: The BuryYourGays aspects are sometimes questioned these days, but a play from 1934 that presents homophobia as a destructive force and its targets as victims instead of offenders was wild for the time.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/MargaretHamilton appears as a bit character, the maid Agatha, in ''These Three''. Three years later she would star in her most famous role, The Wicked Witch Of The West in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/MargaretHamilton appears as a bit character, the maid Agatha, in ''These Three''.''Film/TheseThree''. Three years later she would star in her most famous role, The Wicked Witch Of The West in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''
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* ValuesDissonance: A case of lesbianism wouldn't have ruined somebody's life in most of present day America. This is why revivals are always played as period pieces.
* ValuesResonance: On the other hand, the 2020s have seen a significant backlash against LGBT people in parts of the US, and a viral spread of "grooming" accusations (usually baseless) against teachers and people in similar professions. This play may be prime material for a revival in a modern setting.
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* ValuesDissonance: A ValuesResonance: For a long time it was thought a case of lesbianism wouldn't have ruined somebody's life in most of present day America. This is America (hence why revivals are were always played as period pieces.
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* ValuesResonance: On the other hand, the 2020s have seen a significant backlash against LGBT people in parts of the US, and a viral spread of "grooming" accusations (usually baseless) against teachers and people in similar professions. This play may be prime material for a revival in a modern setting.
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* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: The movie is most well-known for the last twenty minutes [[spoiler:where Martha has an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove before killing herself]].
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* LGBTFanbase: It is one of the few films with an explicitly gay lead made prior to the 1970s. Though its use of BuryYourGays has been critisized, it also has a fanbase amongst people who sympathize with Martha and ship Karen/Martha.
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* LGBTFanbase: It is one of the few films with an explicitly gay lead made prior to the 1970s. Though its use of BuryYourGays has been critisized, criticised, it also has a fanbase amongst people who sympathize with Martha and ship Karen/Martha.
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* TheScrappy: ''Mary''. She is likely one of the most hated children in all of theatre. She's an [[DramaQueen overly dramatic]], SpoiledBrat who doesn't seem to have any regrets about her MaliciousSlander and recieves absolutely no punishment for it.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Margaret Hamilton appears as a bit character, the maid Agatha, in ''These Three''. Three years later she would star in her most famous role, The Wicked Witch Of The West in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.''Film/TheWizardOfOz''
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* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: The movie is most well-known for the last twenty minutes [[spoiler:where Martha has an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove before killing herself]].
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* LGBTFanbase: It is one of the few films with an explicitly gay lead made prior to the 1970s. Though its use of BuryYourGays has been critisized, it also has a fanbase amongst people who sympathize with Martha and ship Karen/Martha.
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* HateSink:Mary.''Mary''. She is likely one of the most hated children in all of theatre. She's an [[DramaQueen overly dramatic]], SpoiledBrat who doesn't seem to have any regrets about her MaliciousSlander.
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** [[spoiler:Martha's suicide]]
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