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Banned shows????
TXShemp:
I'm coming into this conversation a little late. But I had to say.... we have to remember this is 1944. In 1944 "gay" meant a very happy person. Ricky Ricardo could not even say that Lucy was "pregnant" only "expecting." No one thought the use of these words was vulgar then because no one expected to even see a film with the slighest bit of vulgarity. A man could have the name "Dick" and not be laughed at. Those were the days!
Pithecanthropus:
--- Quote from: TXShemp on November 19, 2010, 09:47:28 PM ---I'm coming into this conversation a little late. But I had to say.... we have to remember this is 1944. In 1944 "gay" meant a very happy person.
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Bolding mine.
Not necessarily. In the 1938 screwball classic Bringing Up Baby, there's the scene where Katharine Hepburn has maneuvered Cary Grant to her country house. To keep him there she sends all his clothes off to the cleaners, and he has to put on one of her frilly bathrobes. So flummoxed trying to explain to Hepburn's aunt why he's wearing that thing, he finally gives up and says "Because I just went gay!" and stamps his feet. It's generally thought that this bit of dialog might have been intended as a double entendre.
TXShemp:
Thats interesting. I've never seen that.
Boid Brain:
--- Quote from: TXShemp on November 19, 2010, 11:43:04 PM ---Thats interesting. I've never seen that.
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Jeez! I posted this info on here over a week ago. >:( "Gay" for homo's was in FACT a buzzword from the roaring '20s to the '40's. The stupid censors had no clue that Cary Grant meant exactly what he said. It makes no sense any other way....how could "I just went happy" explain his cross dressing? Makes no sense.
TXShemp:
The point i was making is that movie-goers back then did not think about a rating when they went to see a film.
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