A scene unlike any other


I'm sorry if these comments offend anybody, but there is one scene in "Search for Beauty" (1934) that is so much fun -- and yet so RARE -- that it must be pointed out.

About halfway through the film, there is a scene like some we have all heard about, but have never seen in a mainstream film. Until now. That's the scene in a photographer's studio where a lovely young woman (unidentified, alas) is methodically LIFTING HER SKIRT, to show off her pretty legs, as the photog keeps saying: "Higher. Higher."

As I say, we've heard talk about skirt-lifting before, but we almost never see it in a movie. It's such a beautiful, energizing scene -- and yet CLEAN -- yet some folks won't tolerate it. Especially now, in the fem-lib era.

These other films from the period of the early 1930s have similar scenes:

"Redheaded Woman" (1932)
"42nd Street" (1933)
"It Happened One Night" (1934)

There are no such scenes in Hollywood's Golden Age, but a few pop up in the 1970s and '80s:

"The Ups and Downs of a Handyman" (1975)
"Can't Stop the Music" (1980)
"The Private Eyes" (1981)


Cheers,
Dan




English subtitles are a MUST on all DVD releases!

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Um "fem-lib era?" You have problems.

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Don't pretend to be dense....you know what he's talking about.

The bad news is you have houseguests. There is no good news.

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Yeah, I know what he's talking about. Its an outdated way of thinking that will hopefully go away when small-minded people like him (and I presume you) die off in the next 20 years.

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Why take offense to the use of the term fem-lib? I'm a woman but I know exactly what it meant. Perhaps those who don't are the exact ones to whom the term refers.

There are lots of men-hating, 'I can do everything a man can', 'my needs are all that matter' types who think they're championing the cause of women when really they only represent a sub-group of, usually, very angry, repressed women who can't seem to appreciate the differences between the sexes.

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I would not say repressed, just mean spirited.

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