I mean, the line 'When Steven doesn't like something I wear, I take it off' is so overtly sexual. And in the scene where Peggy and Mrs Fowler are exercising, you can see their underwear!
I thought the 30s and 40s were really conservative when it came to sex, and i'm just wondering if this movie would have been considered as an adult movie when it was released?
Songbird, you've got tales to tell.
Well, I've read a great deal of Joan Crawford memorabilia and I've never seen anything to indicate it was considered 'immodest' or 'loose'. But, on the other hand, since it was a cast of all women, women watching may not have found it racy (as it's like talking with their other girlfriends) and men would probably just be smiling at any sexy talk.
I do think you raise a good point about sex in the 30's and 40's - Certainly, it would have been a taboo to have an extra-marital affair (as Stephen Haines did), but my understanding (again from the various books I've read), as long as it wasn't 'seen' per se, it would get past the censors.
Christopher
'There’s a name for you ladies, but it’s not used…Outside a kennel! (Crystal Allen)'
You can look up the Code. This followed it in that those who wanted to wreck marriages were almost always seen as losing in the end. Even Stephen suffered with a bad second wife before being reunited with his first family. As for the undies, that was allowed. Check out Bringing Up Baby in which Hepburn is in her undies in public. People were allowed to be shown as bad as long as they got their just deserts in the end.
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