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first mention of calories in a movie?

posted 14 years ago by skiddoo
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When you don't eat you lose calories but the less informed sister didn't know what a calorie was. The 1920s skinny fashions promoted a "slimming" boom that has yet to go bust but starving artists didn't need to worry about that.

[–] netshopper-2 14 years ago

Well, Anita Page was not slender at all. Maybe it had to do with her character.