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leonard on colbert
Posted: 10 Jun 2011, 06:39
by man
Re: leonard on colbert
Posted: 15 Jun 2011, 02:11
by jaclem2
..is this a picture of benny leonard on claudette colbert? just checking before i bother to try to open it.
Re: leonard on colbert
Posted: 15 Jun 2011, 02:25
by man
jaclem2 wrote:..is this a picture of benny leonard on claudette colbert? just checking before i bother to try to open it.
exactly. wouldn't have thought somebody guessed
it right without clicking ...
Re: leonard on colbert
Posted: 15 Jun 2011, 08:47
by Datsue
jaclem2 wrote:..is this a picture of benny leonard on claudette colbert? just checking before i bother to try to open it.
D'you remember "The Sign Of The Cross", Jaclem? I only ask because I nearly choked on my popcorn (not a euphemism) watching it on DVD -- obviously it was pre-Hays but it genuinely shocked me, the sensuality of that bath scene. & the lesbianism. & the breasts. Fine looking woman in her day, Ms. Colbert.
It's not so much the libertine societal attitudes of the twenties & early thirties that I find interesting RE: something like the Hays code, it's the bizarre insistence of the mindset that followed that prudery & condemnation flowed unfettered from the 1880s to the 1950s without any kind of a break, & how some of those born in that time somehow also got brought up in that narrow mindset (i.e. lacking perspective on how things had been different just a short time before).
Anyway, dragging this off-topic, I'll shut up now.