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The Strawberry Blonde
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The Strawberry Blonde is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Rita Hayworth.Biff Grimes (Cagney) is a young man in the The Gay '90s, son of an Irish immigrant, who likes to get into fights and aspires to be a dentist. Like everyone else in their New York neighborhood, Biff is enchanted with the lovely socialite Virginia Brush (Hayworth), the strawberry blonde of the title. One day Hugo Barnstead (Jack Carson), an ambitious and unethical man from the neighborhood who'd once enlisted Biff in a scheme to oversell tickets to a cruise, talks Biff into going out on a double date with Virginia and her friend Amy Lind (de Havilland). After promising that Biff can have Virginia, Hugo goes off with her himself, leaving Biff in the company of Amy. Biff unsurprisingly isn't any too happy about this, and is even less happy when Amy startles him with her surprisingly liberated opinions.Hugo, who's always taking advantage of Biff in ways large and small, eventually marries Virginia, gets rich, and lords his success over working-class Biff. Meanwhile, Biff winds up marrying Amy, and they are happy—until Hugo again inserts himself into Biff's life and takes advantage of Biff in a much more terrible way.Notable as the only film that Cagney and de Havilland starred in together (despite both being Warner Bros. contract players for nearly a decade), The Strawberry Blonde provided a huge career break for Hayworth, who was on loan from Columbia and soon afterward became a big star. It was the second screen adaptation of James Hagan's play One Sunday Afternoon, previously filmed under that title in 1933 with Gary Cooper as Biff and Fay Wray as Virginia. It would be remade once more in 1948, this time as a musical film (again titled One Sunday Afternoon) starring Dennis Morgan and Janis Paige. | |
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Fall Guy: Hugo hires Biff for a well-paying but do-nothing job in which all Biff does is sign contracts he doesn't understand. It turns out that Biff is Hugo's fall guy in case the authorities ever catch on to Hugo's fraud and graft. They do, and Biff goes to jail. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Seemingly sweet and innocent Virginia is revealed to be a grasping, selfish schemer, and a nagging shrew of a wife. | |
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Head-Turning Beauty | |
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Head-Turning Beauty: Gorgeous, gorgeous Virginia, which is only logical as she's played by Rita Hayworth. When someone spots Virginia walking down the street, all the men lounging in Nick's barbershop rush outside to get a look at her. | |
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Best Served Cold: Biff plans to kill Hugo in revenge, and it takes him several years to get his chance. However, when he sees the Awful Wedded Life Hugo and Virginia live, he accepts that being happy is the best revenge. | |
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Time Passes Montage: Biff's years in prison are illustrated with a montage in which he studies dentistry while Amy's working as a nurse. | |
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Funny Foreigner | |
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Funny Foreigner: Biff's Greek friend Nick, with his accent and his malapropisms. | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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Babies Ever After: In the last scene Amy reveals that she's pregnant. | |
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Straw Feminist | |
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Straw Feminist: Amy makes a big show of talking about how women should be liberated both politically and sexually, shocking Biff. But she's just talking, and she instantly agrees to forget about all that feminism business when Biff asks her to be his steady. | |
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How We Got Here | |
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How We Got Here: The movie opens with Biff finding out that Hugo's coming to him to have a tooth pulled. Biff starts plotting to murder him with nitrous oxide. The film then jumps back to the beginning of the story. | |
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I Have to Wash My Hair: Virginia says that her cousin from Scranton unexpectedly came to town after Biff tries to get her to agree to another date. Finally she agrees to meet him "three weeks from Wednesday", only for Biff to find out that day that she married Hugo Barnstead. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: The sign outside his dental practice gives his name as T.L. Grimes, but Biff is only ever called Biff. | |
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Casanova Wannabe | |
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Casanova Wannabe: Biff's ne'er-do-well father is constantly trying to seduce the married women of the neighborhood, and apparently always failing. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: Biff's best friend Nick, a Greek immigrant with a heavy accent, hears some Germans talking and says, "Boy, how these foreigners murder the English language." Despite telling Hugo that she will meet him and a friend in the park with Amy, Virginia refuses to admit that she made a date, because good girls don't make dates. | |
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Institutional Apparel: Biff's prison outfit, which is used for a gag. Biff takes up dentistry again while in jail. In one scene he enters his prison dentistry practice, takes off his prison shirt, and puts on his dentist's coat—which is the exact same shirt. | |
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Annoying Laugh | |
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Annoying Laugh: Nick goes out on a date with a girl who has an insanely annoying high-pitched giggle. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Biff goes bananas when an obnoxious preppie asks the band to play "The Band Played On". He's still bitter about losing Virginia. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Hugo engages in graft and kickbacks as the head of a shady construction company, and he uses substandard construction materials, which cause one of his buildings to collapse. | |
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Dutch Angle | |
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Dutch Angle: Used for the shot in which Biff finds out that Hugo Barnstead is the patient coming to get a tooth pulled. | |
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking | |
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: As part of her faux-sophisticated act, Amy asks Biff for a cigarette. Later she admits that she only put one in her mouth once and didn't like it. At the end, Virginia asks Biff for a cigarette and smokes it, showing how coarse and hardened she's become. | |
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Awful Wedded Life | |
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Awful Wedded Life: The end reveals that for all their material wealth, Hugo and Virginia's marriage has devolved into sour, angry sniping and mutual hatred. That's why Biff decides not to kill Hugo—he realizes that he is a happy man and Hugo is not. | |
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You Won't Feel a Thing! | |
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You Won't Feel a Thing!: After Biff realizes how miserably unhappy Hugo's life has turned out, he can't bring himself to kill Hugo with the nitrous oxide that Hugo asked for—but he does take the opportunity to surprise Hugo and yank the tooth without anesthetic. | |
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Match Cut | |
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Match Cut: From a roaring lion that Biff and Virginia see at the zoo to a bellowing barbershop singer at the beer garden where Biff and Virginia go afterwards. From Biff hauling a wheelbarrow in prison to Amy pushing a wheelchair in a hospital. | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today? | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?: Amy strongly implies that she likes to have sex with men, much to Biff's horror. Later, she recoils in fear when Biff takes her seriously and starts kissing her in the park, revealing that she made it all up. | |
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