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What's up with the Penguin?


When Kit and Toni return after their night on the town, there's a scene with them in a doorway saying goodnight. As Toni gives Kit a hug, her left arm swings across the screen and we can clearly see she's holding a stuffed Penguin.

What's up with that? This is a movie of night clubs and high society, not the county fair. Would the penguin mean something to audiences of the 40s? Was this scene added later or a longer part editted out? It'd be interesting to know.

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She also has a few balloons-on-sticks, which were common before helium was used, or when it was unavailable. I took it that they went to Coney Island, or something. Yes, I suppose blue bloods like the fair, too.

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In the book it talks about a "Coney Island Penguine Enema Festival". Maybe that's it.

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everyone likes the fair! 


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