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In the 1960s, as revealed by the movie Back to School, women were forgotten as targets of social promotion politics, or adult education. As spouses, however, they were recognized as the primary support to their husbands, who followed evening classes. That specific role is precisely what is analyzed in this article. By crosschecking how spouses are talked about in social promotion steering committees and how they are shown in movies featuring three spouses of evening class students interviewed at their husbands’ sides in 1966, this article sets to reconstitute pedagogical conceptions that inspired those policies.