That nothing is barred. Everything permitted, nothing forbidden... she is basically just flirtatiously offering herself to whoever wants her (in an attempt to make Johnny jealous, of course).
shareBar none is an American slang term for the best of the best. example: I'm the best dancer in here, bar none.Gilda was saying she was the hottest thing around.
My old man taught me two things: "Mind own business" and "always cut cards."
...and, last but not least, it's a play on the very common ranch names like "bar circle ranch" or whatever, because they represented their names pictorially using simple brands on the cattle (so nobody else could claim the animals and pass them off as their own). Maybe some slight implication that Gilda sees herself as branded cattle?
shareI think too that it's a variation of "Armies have marched mover me" which she says in "Fire Down Below" (1957). This telegraphs sadness whereas "...bar nothing" is a flirtatious sexual innuendo.
This was one of my favorite aspects of noir, the sugestive language.
Just want to point out here that it was Bar NOTHING not Bar None.
Yes, I'm sure. I just double-checked.
You are correct sir! She said she would be named "The Bar Nothing" is she was a ranch. Ranches oftentimes used the word "Bar" in their name. From Wiki Answers.com: "A 'bar' is a common character used in the creation of cattle brands. It is a straight line similar to the underscore key on a computer keyboard. Many ranch names are descriptive of their particular cattle brands. For example the Double C Bar Ranch would have a brand made up of two capital "C"s followed by a straight line at the bottom of the last "C". The Bar M Ranch might have a brand made up of a capital M with a straight bar over it."
So that's the Bar part. The Bar Nothing means that no rules limit you. Like the expression that comes from the sport of wrestling in old days: "No holds barred". In other words no wrestling holds were illegal to use or "barred' from competition. So theoretically and probably in reality the strangle hold was OK to use.
So there you go ... she is saying that she was not limited to the type and extent of fun that she would have. Any which way you can.
Goodbye.
Perhaps the OP just wants to reach out for some sense of community.