Some Enchanted Evening: The Kings and Queens of Iconic Prom Cinema

It's a dance, dance revolution! Danielle Nussbaum crowns the kings and queens of iconic prom cinema.

It's a dance, dance revolution! Danielle Nussbaum crowns the kings and queens of iconic prom cinema. Sparks fly between Nova (Aimee) and Jesse (Thomas McDonell)

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_It's a dance, dance revolution! Danielle Nussbaum crowns the kings and queens of iconic prom cinema. __

_My high school boyfriend wrote, Will you go to prom with me? in rose petals on my bedroom floor. I still have pictures and, believe it or not, the rose petals. I went to four proms and wore everything from cream silk (big mistake) to black velvet (bigger mistake), but I was guided by movies: They told me how cool the night could be, how cool it should be. The dress, the hair, the music, the limo, the theme . . . theres a reason that prom is such a repeated trope in pop culture. It matters.