What Did Una do?


Alright, not sure how many people noticed this but there's a scene where Jean & Una are in Una's salon and they see Lil's second husband. Lil makes a comment and Una's character, looking displeased, licks her fingers and does what.......? I doubt it's to say that Lil is hot? But she did something. Was this supposed to signify something back in the 30's?

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She takes her gum out of her mouth and...puts it on her shoe, I would guess? Maybe to reference the word "gumshoe", as in she was a sneak?

I don't really see how her saying "Daddy Legendre" would make her a sneak, though. Maybe by using that phrase it implies that Una's character thinks that Lil is stealthily trying to "move on up" from Bill to his father? Hell, I don't know. I gave it my best shot.

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Watching that entire scene including the part you mentioned made me thing Sally had gotten fed up with her 'friend' Lil. They had been close but once Lil had gotten her hooks into Legendre she was treating her friend like the help. Lil was delusional about what she had achieved and Sally knew it.

She knew none of Legendre's friends and family accepted her or wanted anything to do with her but Lil was oblivious. When she said daddy Legendre, she was implying a close relationship with the father that did not and would never exist. Taking the gum out of her mouth was a sign of her distaste. Lil was dishing out the $h!7 and Sally couldn't take it.


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