Beulah, peel me a grape!
Is this quote a insinuation? There's any hidden message in this quote?
shareI wondered about that, too. Not being able to come up with any sort of hidden naughty meaning (I was thinking of the suggestive line, "peel a ripe tomato" where 'tomato' is slang for a pretty woman), I took it to mean that Tira was so spoiled that she would have her maid go to whatever ridiculous ends to satisfy her whims, such as, well, peeling her a grape. But I did find this in the trivia section:
"Mae West's famous line in this film, "Beulah, peel me a grape," was inspired by West's pet monkey, Boogie. The monkey loved grapes, and one day West noticed that although he would eat grapes by the dozens, he would always peel the skin off each one before popping it into his mouth."
"A little old lady got mutilated late last night... Werewolves of London again."
This brings to mind the passage in Mae West's autobiography where she writes that every comment she made people looked for sexual undercurrents in it. It's actually one of her most innocent lines, just used as a quick gag to close out the scene. I think people found it funny just because it's improbable, who peels grapes? It's true her pet monkey inspired the gag, it's also in her book.
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