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Did Tatum and Lorraine, you know . . .


When he grabs her hair like that, and then there's a fade to black. Are we, the audience, under the Hays Code, supposed to infer that at that point they had sex?





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I think so. The Code didn't completely pretend such things never happened!

Forgetting the Code, I suppose it's possible he and Lorraine didn't have sex, just played around, but I doubt it. The only reason to wonder is whether they'd have enough privacy long enough in a room right off the restaurant to do it. Lorraine's bedroom would have been better.

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Oh yeh. I imagine it was rough, too. He had already slapped her, and she didn't mind that enough to stay away from him or no longer want him.

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99.99% certain they did it (and I'm being conservative here). Lovely couple, huh? 😨

No blah, blah, blah!

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he had no respect for her because she wouldn't support her husband. but he was willing to have sex with her.

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