Last night, I watched I Was a Male War Bride starring Cary Grant. The basic plot is that Cary is a French man (oddly with no attempt at an accent) who marries a female U.S. Army lieutenant. Wackiness ensues, as he tries to navigate an immigration system that assumes all Section 271 immigrants are war brides -- not war grooms. By the end of the film, Cary is dressing in drag in order to board the ship that will bring him to New York.
The film is an interesting example of how early twentieth century people struggled to keep up with the dramatic changes that had occurred in marriage relationships. Most of the bureaucrats in the film are still operating under an old system in which women are always the dependents of men. The presence of a male dependent spouse is just too much to wrap their brains around, and this clash of worldviews is the source of most of the mayhem.
It's good to be reminded that gays aren't the ones who destroyed "traditional" marriage. As this film demonstrates, "traditional" marriage had already been destroyed by the end of World War II.