Re: A Fay Wray Centennial

On 2007-09-17 16:06:25 -0400, "glassman" <jksinrod@xxxxxxx> said:


"Phil" <phil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2007-09-17 08:05:22 -0400, "glassman" <jksinrod@xxxxxxx> said:


"Jim Burns" <jameshburns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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the future
generations of film lovers, it's Wray's face we'll still see, when we
consider the adventures and romance possible, in a magical land--whether
KONG's Skull Island, or Manhattan.

Jim Burns



Face? I couldn't keep my eyes off her legs! That was pretty racy
stuff
back then.

How's this for a benchmark? In the recent remake, I couldn't keep my eyes
off Naomi Watt's-er-name's gigantic front teeth. So much for enduring sex
appeal.

But yes, the original does appear in that rather magical time frame
between the establishment and actual enforcement of the Hays Office
Production Code. There are probably more social and cinematic oddities put
on film in that ~5-year period than there have been in the last 15.


Give us a few more... I know in the Tarzan flicks, she was practically
bare ass.

You're speaking of Maureen O'Sullivan, I think, and yes, she was definitely costumed quite revealingly. The other day I was watching "If I Had A Million" (a classic ensemble anthology, BTW), concerning various characters reactions to receiving an unexpected check for a million dollars at the height of the Depression. The first recipient, as I recall, is Wynne Gibson as the local speakeasy's resident prostitute, although of course they don't come out and say so, and the first thing she does with her new-found wealth is go and check into a top-notch hotel room, get completely undressed for bed, and go to sleep. Alone, in the middle of the day. After a few moments she gets up, takes the spare pillows, angrily throws them out into the hallway, claps her hands free of imaginary dirt, and goes back to sleep. It kind of says a great deal in a very few brush strokes...

The same movie also features WC Fields apparently "living in sin", or perhaps a common-law marriage, embarking with his little mud-turt-- I mean turtle-dove-- on an epic quest of extended road-rage designed to rid the world of road-hogs forever. Two words: "Friggin' awesome."

And for the basest common denominator, of course, there's a plethora of early 30's movies which make it quite clear that brassieres for young women were perhaps not quite the norm, yet.

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