To be clear, I don't mean things from old movies which have entered the modern lexicon. I mean bits of language or culture, now largely forgotten, which you would have instantly understood as a pre-1960 audience member.
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You'll get a huge amount of references if you know that Johnny Weissmuller was the athletic guy who played Tarzan, Stokowski and Toscanini were famous conductors, Charlie McCarthy was a ventriloquist dummy, and that the calla lilies are in bloom again.
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I'm checking out for a bit, but you guys have entertained me beautifully today. I'll be back later to see what else you've come up with.
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Reno: The place to go when you wanted or needed to get a divorce “quickly” (6 weeks).
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An excellent example.
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Yes! There's a joke at the end of THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK which would go right over your head if you didn't know who the Dionne quintuplets were.
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One that I’m glad has disappeared from movies and our culture: the phrase “free, white, and 21.” My skin crawls every time I hear a character say it.
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Oh man, and it pops up everywhere.
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Beatrice Fairfax was a name used by Marie Manning on her advice column that began in 1898. “Beatrice Fairfax” was featured in a movie serial in 1916 and as the title of a “true confessions”-style magazine. The name was used in the same way we might use Dear Abby or Anne Landers.pic.twitter.com/p57cPIpGPB
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Her presence in the verse to the Gershwin song "But Not for Me" is a plague to modern singers.
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