Re: Lady from Shanghai...minor point.

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On Feb 28, 5:44 pm, El Klauso <ChasJKl...@aol.com> wrote:
> Finally getting the chance to leaf through the second part of Simon
> Callow's Welles bio ("Hello, Americans") and I was struck by the fact
> that he seemingly missed the crude humor of juxtaposing Rita Hayworth
> with an obnoxious radio commerical for soap that began with
> "...Rub...Rub.." etc.
> Simon seemed to take the 'insertion' of the commerical topic as a tie
> between Rita's beauty and a commercial beauty product, whereas it
> seemed to me a comment on something entirely other than bathing. (More
> along the line of - as the old blues tune has it - 'rubbin' on the
> darned old thing.")
> >
> Can you think of other situations of cinematic double entendre where
> critics or biographers have missed the boat by a wide margin?

I think Welles probably intended it more as a joke then a comment, but
certainly both Hollywood and the Advertising Industry have long
specialized in the commercialization of women's beauty. He may have
intended it both ways.