Pic.: Groucho Marx. This pic and others like this caused him very serious headaches with the Law.
Yes. He made so much money from those pictures that "The IRS has the funny idea that I owe them one million dollars". About 15 million of today's money. (Thanks K for the corrections)
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I doubt the picture caused any legal problems - it was a staged publicity foto for a national magazine to publicize a movie. All the characters that the Marx bros. played, including Groucho the lecher, had nothing to do with their actual private personalities, though they stayed "in character" for public appearances. Groucho originally played a German but had to switch because Germans were unpopular during WWI.
It is the IRS, not the IRR. $1M in the 1930s is equivalent to maybe $13M now, not $50M. Starting w. Roosevelt, socialism was on the march and the top US tax rates were as high as 94% - the idea was obviously to punish the rich rather than produce revenue, since it is hardly worth working if the government takes virtually everything you produce (and indeed little was gathered from the 94% bracket). The actual effective tax rate was much lower because there were all sorts of evasive measures taken.
K
Groucho here is obviously taking an "evasive measure" from the IRS, and only incidentally discovers the meeting of the Mother Superior and her two novitiates.
Anon.
Now that I think of it, their appear to be three women in the hotel room and one small bed. What is going on?
It is also interesting that the women are flabby by modern fashion standards and also that the waist of women's underwear was much higher back in the day - bras have not changed that much but panties have shrunken as the dollar has inflated.
K
They are not flabby, they are physiologically normal, and this is why Groucho is interested in them.
Today's standards in female "beauty" are pathologically, even dangerously anorectic and are actually promulgated by "aesthetes" who are not only not really interested in women, they are not interested in womens' having children and do not seem to care if the next generation does not actually appear.
The fashion industry is a menace and literally part of the War on the West. We cannot afford it in its present form.
Anon.
The standing girl is one of the sexiest since the Greeks started making sculptures of godesses. Today's fashion industry is in my opinion a cult of death.
The women aren't flabby - look at the standing woman's very thin shoulders and arms - but their body type is somewhat different from what you see on today's runway models.
I think it relates to age - the current beauty ideal (and by the way that of the ancients - see the sculptures of the 3 graces http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Three_Graces_Louvre_Ma287.jpg) is the body of a teenage girl (which is btw probably the ideal age for reproduction - high school girls get pregnant whenever anyone so much as looks at them, while old women struggle with fertility treatments), while the women in the old photos are considerably older and thicker.
K
A beautiful strong maidele.
A beautiful strong maidele.
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