Whats the connective tissue, or real life moral panic, between golden era Hollywood "we've got to put on a musical revue show...
talkinggorillabutler asked:
Whats the connective tissue, or real life moral panic, between golden era Hollywood "we've got to put on a musical revue show to stop snidely whiplash from foreclosing on the orphanage" and post new Hollywood "we've got to host a house party to stop the property developer from demolishing the teen rec center"
Uh… Screen Gems’ TV syndication of the Three Stooges shorts, which kept their vaudeville-derived idiom in midcentury currency even for suburbanites who never had a chance to see the “little stage” in person. Yeah, that’s the ticket.