Censor Breath

[Yours for the Asking (dir. Alexander Hall, 1936). Click for a larger view.]

The joke fills the screen — perhaps a joke on the Code, but certainly a joke on Sen-Sen, which masked all sorts of stuff on one’s breath. (Ida Lupino’s Gert Malloy is three sheets to the wind.)

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