Does this movie feature the first genuine boob joke of the Code era? You can tell this movie comes towards the break up of the Code's grip on Hollywood, I can't imagine genuine cleavage in a 1949 Hollywood film, but I could be wrong.
Modern Times has a boob gag in it (ten points to whoever figures it out), but it didn't feature actual skin. This one did.
No way it was the first. As I pointed out in another thread, the writers stole Constance Towers' line from Grace Kelly word-for-word in To Catch a Thief, which was filmed and released four years earlier. Prince Albert of Monaco called to say his mother's estate wants the line back!
shareThe joke is set-up immediately before when Hannah says to Marlowe: 'Come now, Colonel. A man with a great big frame like yours, can't just nibble away like a little ol' titmouse.'
shareWatch Howard Hugh's "The Outlaw," and look at Jane Russell....
I don't act...I react. John Wayne
I've seen the Legend Films DVD of The Outlaw", which I believe is the uncut version. There is an astonishing amount of cleavage for 1940s Hollywood. No wonder Hughes had serious problems exhibiting the film. I believe he had to settle for an edited down version in 1946.
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