At the party during the first part of the movie, where Patrick comes to Mame's apartment for the first time, there is a scene of the two of them out on Mame's terrace.
In the background are two women who are dressed in men's coats and wearing men's hats, smoking cigarettes.
Hah! I guess this is meant to illustrate the kind of people who attend Mame's parties. VERY "New York City"!
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
I certainly noticed them. They're dressed like Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein's lesbian lover.
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I've noticed them, but never typed here about them. And I always think to myself: How scandalous. Women wearing pants in 1928
shareI definitely noticed them. The film makers got their point across.
shareAny chance it was meant to be Gertrude Stein & Alice B Toklas?
shareI think most people notice - they are hard to miss. I was surprised that the censors left that in, unless the censors were naïve. Maybe that was the producer's revenge for not being allowed to show Agnes as a truly unwed mother, as she was in the book.
shareAfter seeing this movie countless times, I only just noticed the two lesbians on the terrace in my most recent viewing on TCM over the weekend.
shareI've seen the movie countless times, and have never noticed them. I guess my eyes are always on Mame whenever she is in the scene! I'll have to look for them next time I see the movie.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
In the book, Patrick and Nora (his nanny) arrive at Mame's Beekman Place address while she's having a party and it says that among the guests was a couple "where the man looked like a woman, and the woman, except for her tweed skirt, was almost a perfect Ramon Novarro"....
shareDon't be silly. The scene wasn't sexual- it never would have been censored back then! The 50s weren't 1940s Germany!
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