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Isn’t It Romantic | Horny on Main

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Mar 29, 2021
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Credit: Netflix

Ben Flanagan

In Leo McCarey’s Belle of the Nineties (1934), a Western parody released a few months after the introduction of the Code, Mae West appears in a stage show as Ruby Carter, where the desirable ‘good time girl’ dons various outfits taking on the shape of a rose, a spider, and the Statue of Liberty. In this truncated comedy, strip…

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