Every little girl wants to be the belle of the ball.
No matter how old or how young you are, the pre-Civil war era had a romance about it. Chivalry was alive and well. It may have been one of the first movies with a strong heroine. Marie Well, we DONT have a strong hero and a weak lady. Instead, there are a strong female, who sees the world as it really is, without trying to cover it, and we have the strong handsome man that is desperately in love with her.