EVERY GIRL SHOULD BE MARRIED: but should every man be stalked?

There's two ways of reading this movie.
1. It's an incredibly cute rom-com about an incredible cute young lady called Anabel (Betsy Drake) who uses her feminine wiles to land the man of her dreams;
or
2. It's a disturbing tale of an obsessed young woman named Anabel who relentlessly hunts down her prey, stalking the poor man for weeks and bamboozling him into marriage.

In both instances the heroine is painted in a less than flattering light. In the former she's a love-sick simpleton whose only goal in life is to land a husband, while in the latter she's become unhinged under the weight of society's pressure to conform. She's been brainwashed into believing a woman isn't whole without her husband and has become manic in her efforts to find one.
In 1948, when EVERY GIRL SHOULD BE MARRIED was originally released it's unlikely there would have been many who would have agreed with the latter interpretation. The film's lighthearted title reflected a popularly held sentiment, particularly among the millions of men who'd recently returned from the war and were eager to reclaim the jobs that had been taken over by women during their absence. 
60 years ago Anabel's behaviour may have been viewed as rather over-enthusiastic but, after all, she is only acting on her biological urges. The pretty little thing is to be admired for demonstrating some initiative in landing her man who obviously doesn't know what's good for him..  
The poor sap who doesn't stand a chance is Dr Madison W. Brown, a noted baby doctor who's too busy enjoying his bachelor lifestyle to realise it's not what he wants. As played by Cary Grant, Dr Brown is something of a mystery. Resolutely single and initially impervious to Anabel's dubious charms he only starts to succumb when she begins displaying the kind of behaviour which is more normally grounds for the issuance of a restraining order. 
What's particularly frightening is that when she finally reels him in he admits he was onto her all along, and still he wants to marry her. On the basis of no evidence whatsoever he appears to believe that once the ring is on her finger all this obsessive behaviour will simply vanish and he'll have a perfectly contented little wife to come home to everyday. While Dr Brown's imagining Myrna Loy in "The Best Years of Our Lives" I'm thinking the reality's likely to be someone closer to Alex Forrest in "Fatal Attraction."
Some may accuse of me of reading too much into a frivolous piece of Hollywood fluff - and it's not even a particularly good piece of fluff - but mainstream Hollywood was all about maintaining the status quo in the 30s and 40s and made much use of fluff such as this to explore and resolve social issues in a way that disguised their true intent.
In what may have been a case of life or imitating art, or may just have been pure coincidence, Grant and Drake were married a year to the day after the film's release. And they didn't live happily ever after.