Watching this just now, Leslie Howard mentions his $5,000 life insurance policy -- hardly seems like enough to buy "golden castles" and whatever else he waxes lyric about, but I put that figure through an inflation calculator, and $5,000 1936 dollars is worth almost $78,000 2010 dollars! Still not a fortune, but would get ME out of debt!
--If they move, kill 'em!
He doesn't make much money
Only five thousand per
Some judge who thinks he's funny
Says you'll pay six to her.
He says now judge suppose I fail.
The judge says bud go right to jail.
You better keep her,
I think it's cheaper,
Than makin' whoopee.
I wonder what his premiums were? Two dollars a month? Five dollars per quarter? My mother once showed me her brother's life insurance policy, left over from 1939 or '40. It was for $2,500 and the premium was $3.00 per quarter1
May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?