Was This REALLY the Right Way to ... ?

[Marc Chevalier]

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Why, yes indeedy. In 1937, this was the correct way. Allegedly.




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[LizzieMaine]

Well, if you take goofy exploitation films made to be shown in the back of carnival wagons and in smoke-filled Elks halls seriously, yeah. But as an actual document of the times, hardly.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Well, if you take goofy exploitation films made to be shown in the back of carnival wagons and in smoke-filled Elks halls seriously, yeah.

Those are the only things I take seriously.


All kidding aside, let's please all agree that this ain't the best way:

 

[lolly_loisides]

So today we call them paparazzi & back then we called them dirty old pervs with a camera.....

p.s Trixie looks like she's a riot, I know who I'd rather be out with on a night on the tiles (her dress is really lovely too).

Edit: I was right Trixie was really something. She had a career on the stage & movies for almost 50 years. Elaine Barry was famous for being 19 & marrying a 53 year old John Barrymore.

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"I do not believe any man –at least no man I know –is better fitted to form a political opinion than I am." Trixie Friganza, The New York Telegraph, Oct. 27, 1908.

 

[rue]

The SS Normandy is in.... :rofl:



There is one real truth in this little film.... "women will use every feminine trickery in her command to sell herself to the man she loves..... until she lands him". I can never understand why most women let themselves go once they're married. It boggles the mind.....

 

[scottyrocks]

What, was every narrated short made from the 30s to the 50s narrated by the same guy?

 

[sheeplady]

There is one real truth in this little film.... "women will use every feminine trickery in her command to sell herself to the man she loves..... until she lands him". I can never understand why most women let themselves go once they're married. It boggles the mind.....

I've never understood this either. I actually take much better care of myself since being married because I feel more confident and better about myself. I want to look good for my spouse. The same with the house and cooking/baking too- I have someone to share things with- and it makes me happy.

Considering that a lot of "letting yourself go" means adopting unhealthy habits (not exercising, not eating well) it could be cheating both people out of enjoying healthier years together later in life.

I'm also going to say that men let themselves go after they get married too, I don't think it's limited to women.

 

[rene_writer]

It looks as though she's spent her entire life undressing. LOL, seriously? Good thing the film looked REALLY candid. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I undress more like Trixie. No husband though, so there's only my cat to have his eyes harmed.

On a different note, it is nice to see a little fuller figure being described as beautiful and elegant.

 

[Espee]

What, was every narrated short made from the 30s to the 50s narrated by the same guy?

I've never heard the guy before. Is it that any offscreen male voice coming through a mic of that era sounds the same, to you?

 

[Espee]

Those are the only things I take seriously.


All kidding aside, let's please all agree that this ain't the best way:

Looks like a Picasso pantomime horse...

 

[C-dot]

Well, if you take goofy exploitation films made to be shown in the back of carnival wagons and in smoke-filled Elks halls seriously, yeah. But as an actual document of the times, hardly.

And it's one facet of the times that has remained the same to this day, I'm sure.

I've never heard the guy before. Is it that any offscreen male voice coming through a mic of that era sounds the same, to you?

The speaking style in recordings, narrations, and radio in the Golden Era was very distinct, so yes, most male voice-overs do sound the same!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

... so yes, most male voice-overs do sound the same!

As do those jaunty marching tunes in the opening credits of so many '30s "educational" shorts and news shorts.

 

[Espee]

I thought perhaps I was about to find the nasal Pete Smith narrating it... I believe there were frequent imitations of him in the 1960s and 70s, in TV commercials and such, which were attempting to sound old-timey. Seems like "Well, what have we here?" was a trademark line.
But no, the How To Undress... narrator is certainly not him.