Lee Levine was kind enough to share this hilarious YouTube clip depicting Hollywood's idea of a gay bar in the Village--presumably like the ones Fay and her friends frequent in A Scarlet Pansy (which we're discussing tonight). One of the first such scenes in a pre-Hays Code picture, it comes from "Call Her Savage," a Clara Bow movie that came out in 1932, the same year the novel was published. Start at the 1:49 mark (there's another clip that starts with the bar scene, but it has Spanish subtitles, which I found distracting).
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The "feather duster" scene is a clip featured in "The Celluloid Closet", a documentary shown recently on TCM. Highly recommended. It's based on a book of the same name I'll nominate for reading in the next call.
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