There is a scene where Miriam Hopkins is trying to warn Gene Tierney about some of the "aberrations of the male sex", and she says "I once knew a brigadier general who couldn't be left alone with a French telephone."
How did they ever get THAT past the censors?!
I must admit I had to rewind it to see if I had heard the line correctly....
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I don't get. What's that mean?
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I think it's supposed to mean that he would have sex with the telephone.
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There is a scene where Miriam Hopkins is trying to warn Gene Tierney about some of the "aberrations of the male sex", and she says "I once knew a brigadier general who couldn't be left alone with a French telephone."
I'm quite sure it meant that he made obscene phone calls when he was in France.
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