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does this movie get kinda lesbian-esque??




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No. A brief scene of a dykish-looking woman smoking a cigar & described by another inmate as "likes to wrestle" is all.

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I can't believe it. That was the smallest scene! Although I guess the rest still qualifies as lesbian content. A good movie. I enjoyed it.



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I didn't notice any lesbianism. All I remember is Lillian Roth singing and I remember her story "I'll Cry Tomorrow" with Susan Hayward playing Lillian Roth. What a sad real life she had. Barbara Stanwyck had a great career. I have a copy of her "Clash By Night" which is really good and I bought the DVD, Stella Dallas which I have not viewed as yet.

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There are some lesbian overtones when the camera pans past several cells (just after Lillian Roth sings to a photo of Joe E. Brown - I guess she really must have been in prison for a couple of years to be infatuated with him!).

The bullish woman who smokes cigars is doing exercises in a cell. There's a woman sitting on the bed looking up at her saying, "You just always exercise". The next cell appears to have one woman sitting up in bed (legs on the bed), a woman sitting at the foot of the bed, and a 3rd in a chair pulling a stocking on - they're laughing at something.

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The references in the jail have many serious lesbian overtones. People in the 1930's were far more street wise than some, today, would like to think. There is really nothing pornographic, but the tough matrons smoking cigars and the attitudes of the inmates don't really keep anyone guessing about what they are thinking. Then there is the phrase "fresh fish" being repeated by the girls when Stanwyck makes her entrance. Fun stuff!

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They still say the same things in the male joints today as well, as soon as the inmates get off the bus and pass through reception they shout out "fresh fish", "new booty", "fresh meat". Everybody new in prison even the C/O's are called "fish", when the inmate gets his bed roll, toothbrush, cup and spoon it's know as a fish kit.

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not at all



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No, not unless that's what you're looking for. I didn't see anything about this film that would give me the impression anyone was trying suggest anything lesbian-esque. People seem to ask the gay question about a lot of movies. I just can't understand what the payoff would be.

I'm not saying those things weren't in existence during those days but, unlike today, I don't think people tried to flaunt it or were careless enough to allude to it in movies. Again, what would be the point?

Today, because of political correctness, there are so many references to LGBT lifestyles in the media one would think they're on par with heterosexuality. That, of course, is far from the truth; homosexuality is a very small minority.


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