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Pretty_Vixen said:
I love these old costumes. I find it quite interesting, the not-so-hidden hints at sexuality, whereby certain clothes highlight certain parts of women's bodies. I am pleased we have mostly escaped that kid of low-level subjugation in movies.
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That was a bright, Pre-code moment, Im afraid....Withing the following five years, such a shot would have gotten her, the Producer, Director, and possibly the writer jugged
 
saddlebum66 said:
That was a bright, Pre-code moment, Im afraid....Withing the following five years, such a shot would have gotten her, the Producer, Director, and possibly the writer jugged
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Really? I love the robot in Metropolis, and even that highlights overt sexuality in such a way as to suggest. Clothing was used all the time like that. Strange that guys' suits and manner of dress usually attempted to make them look rugged and "manly"!
 
Pretty_Vixen said:
Really? I love the robot in Metropolis, and even that highlights overt sexuality in such a way as to suggest. Clothing was used all the time like that. Strange that guys' suits and manner of dress usually attempted to make them look rugged and "manly"!
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True....but its pre-code, and foreign as well.In that pic of miz Brooks, look how McLaglen is dressed. Pretty conventional to her rather risque costume.

If you watch any Harlow Movie, she wore slinky, clingy things that obviously had no underpinnings. She apparently iced her nipples between takes to keep them prominent. But she passed before the Hayes office could get to her. For a long time after, double beds were out, "Hollywood Beds"
( paired twins ) were the rule, and if a couple occupied the same one, even briefly one actors foot had to be on the floor....Wasnt til the mid fifties that Doubles came back, but I knew people whose master bedrooms were furnished with twin beds
 
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I find the rules of Hollywood very strange. Almost puritanical. Were they trying to steer the populace? Most European, especially French and German films, even the British in the 50s and 60s, were much more relaxed about sex. I mean, James Bond! How did the US react to that scene when she emerged in a bikini from the sea? And the scene in From Here to Eternity, on the beach?
 
Pretty_Vixen said:
I find the rules of Hollywood very strange. Almost puritanical. Were they trying to steer the populace? Most European, especially French and German films, even the British in the 50s and 60s, were much more relaxed about sex. I mean, James Bond! How did the US react to that scene when she emerged in a bikini from the sea? And the scene in From Here to Eternity, on the beach?
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"Eternity" was a scandal but also a very big attraction. Much like "And God Created Woman" was a few years later. When Honey Ryder
( Ursula Andress) came out of the water, it really made her a star, and solidified Bond as a bonafide Screen phenom to go with Fleming's books.
 
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