Blue Denim was a successful 1958 Broadway play by writer James Leo Herlihy, made the next year into a successful movie starring Brandon De Wilde and Carol Lynley (who had appeared in the stage version), and dealing with the issues of teenage pregnancy and (then-illegal) abortion. Macdonald Carey, Warren Berlinger and Roberta Shore appear as supporting characters. 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the street in New York City. ... James Leo Herlihy (27 February 1927-21 October 1993) was an American novelist, best known for Midnight Cowboy. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Brandon de Wilde (April 9, 1942–July 6, 1972) was born into a theatrical family in Brooklyn. ... Carol Lynley (born Carole Ann Jones on February 13, 1942 in New York City, New York) is an American actress. ... Macdonald Carey Macdonald Carey (born March 15, 1913 in Sioux City, Iowa - March 21, 1994 in Beverly Hills, California) was an American actor best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBCs soap opera Days of our Lives. ...

The story is set in Dearborn, Michigan, during the 1950s, and revolves around fourteen-year-old Arthur Bartley (DeWilde) and his schoolmates, fifteen-year-old Janet Willard (Lynley) and Ernie (Berlinger). While widower's-daughter Janet laughs at Arthur and Ernie's forays into smoking, drinking, and playing cards, she's always been interested in Arthur, and as Arthur's parents try to shelter him from negative things in life (like the euthanasia of the family dog, done while he's at school), he turns to Janet for comfort. Dearborn is a city of nearly 98,000 people located in the Metro Detroit metropolitan area and Wayne County, Michigan in the United States. ... // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... Euthanasia (Greek: ευθανασία - ευ good, θανατος death) refers to assisted dying. ...

The relationship between Janet and Arthur results in her becoming pregnant. Unable to ask their parents (who misinterpret their pleas as "ordinary" teenage curiosity about sex and adulthood) for help, they turn to Ernie, who'd boasted earlier about "helping a sailor who got his girl in trouble" by directing him to an abortionist – only to discover Ernie made it all up, based on secondhand stories. The three seek together to arrange an abortion and raise the funds, only to be discovered by their parents. In the meantime, Arthur and Janet find out how much they don't yet know about life – and how much they truly care about each other.

In the original stage version, Janet does have her pregnancy aborted, and she and Arthur talk it over later as they settle their feelings for one another. When the play was adapted for Hollywood, however, strict production codes forbade anything but the condemnation of abortion, so the storyline was changed; Arthur and Janet instead are married, and stay with Janet's aunt in another city until the baby is born.

While the play and then the movie came and went, at first causing a minor controversy, then becoming part of the 'canon' of Broadway adaptations, and studied for its sociological impact, Blue Denim was stil being decried as late as the 1980s by Fundamentalist preachers. Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... The 1980s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1980 and 1989, however in a pop cultural sense The Eighties sometimes includes at least some aspects of 1979 and 1990, or more or less the era between the end of the Disco era of the 1970s and... In comparative religion, fundamentalism has come to refer to several different understandings of religious thought and practice, including literal interpretation of sacred texts such as the Bible or the Quran and sometimes also anti-modernist movements in various religions. ...