Talk:The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Make sense
On the inital stub version of the article, there were two sentances that I found that didn't quite make sense:


 * This premise is backed by the foundation of World Wars I and II.
 * the phrase, "the man in the gray flannel suit" was somewhat of a joke

Could the author of this page, or someone who understands what s/he was getting at, add these back in as substantive, clear pieces of info? --Alex S 23:50, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I was wondering if the the term "Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" was a reference to the enemy in Europe, the Germans, who kind of wore a grey flannel wool uniform. WonderWheeler (talk) 01:57, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Movie or novel
The into to the article characterizes TMITGFS as a novel, but then almost the whole article is about the movie. Could some literary type write a novel summary? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.112.75.239 (talk) 13:45, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Actually the whole article seems confused as to which one it's on: the sidebar shows a picture of the movie DVD, and offers stats on the movie. 68.190.127.172 (talk) 05:11, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
 * That's because it needs to be split. -- 98.154.34.179 (talk) 08:06, 24 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Agree with the poster above. The movie and the novel should have separate pages. TheBlinkster (talk) 05:04, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

When Gregory Peck tells Jennifer Jones the dates of when he was in Rome, he says it was June and July of 1945. The War in Europe ended in late April or early May 1945. I think this is a typo in the manuscript that everyone overlooked. Please double check and I'm sure you'll see I'm right. It sort of shows you what can happen if you don't have an historical sense of time. I could be wrong, but somebody should check this out more thoroughly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.207.125.52 (talk) 04:10, 16 August 2013 (UTC)


 * The state of war per se ended in Europe during spring of 1945; but, allied forces occupied much of Europe for years afterward. It's not entirely incredible that the character in question could've been posted in Italy well into the summer before shipping out to what remained of the war in the Pacific. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.130.32 (talk) 04:30, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Split off novel page
I split the novel information off to The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (novel) and made this page solely about the film. This is the normal practice for other bestselling books that were made into films (for example, Wilson's A Summer Place). I am also thinking of moving this page to one entitled The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (film). Both the book and film were very popular so I don't think there is a good argument for the phrase defaulting to one or the other without the addition of (novel) or (film). If anyone wants to discuss this, please do so here.TheBlinkster (talk) 06:54, 9 November 2015 (UTC)