Stripper wearing pasties
The parent guide for this movie says that in one scene "a stripper wearing pasties dances". I don't remember that, although it sounds VERY memorable.
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At the second scene set in the Cafe when Martins is getting drunk after finding out what Lime had done, a character walks from the rear of the cafe towards him and the dancer can be seen dancing and twirling behind him.
I have to say I was quite surprised this got through both UK and American censors (maybe it didn't?) She is wearing a long harem style skirt and seems to have generously sized pasties - it's possible she has a sheer body suit (the monochrome film quality and depth of field limitations make this impossible to tell for sure)but it sure gets your attention!
Come on lads, bags of swank!
In the trivia section, it's stated that the American released version by Selznick had 11 minutes cut out of it, as well as a different narrator at the beginning. It's probably a pretty safe bet that the whole stripper/bar scene never played in Peoria.
It really was a somewhat pointless scene, so losing it wouldn't have really changed the story. All we really learned from it was where Holly got the flowers for Anna when he went to see her...but he could have got them anywhere.
It was always my impression that the music in the bar scene was purposely cheap but recently I found out the song was very popular at the time: Managua, Nicaragua, was the name and the record by Edmondo Ros sounds just like the movie.
shareYes, I remember that scene, Zip.
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.