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Classic Films

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1. We too notice all the smoking.

Thu Mar 9, 2023, 04:38 PM

Mar 2023

I guess that was how people were back then. It seems so strange now.

As a woman, I always notice the way many women in old movies are objectified.

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I love old movies, BUT ... [View all] Jeebo Mar 2023 OP

We too notice all the smoking. Diamond_Dog Mar 2023 #1

I call it The Bored Life. Tetrachloride Mar 2023 #2

Here's a Family Guy parody of just that. IjustDontlikeRepugs Mar 2023 #5

People used to smoke everywhere. Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #6

Doesn't bother me. It was a different time. LakeArenal Mar 2023 #7

Paul Henreid, I think, in Now Voyager. Great film.....n/t yorkster Mar 2023 #8

Oh yes. Other tear jerker with Tone. LakeArenal Mar 2023 #11

I was watching Casablanca the other night BigmanPigman Mar 2023 #9

Fred MacMurray could deliver his lines while eating popcorn. John1956PA Mar 2023 #10

Apparently Claudette Colbert could, too. Jeebo Mar 2023 #16

I'm not bothered by it Auggie Mar 2023 #12

There's something about the ASSUMPTION that everybody smokes. Jeebo Mar 2023 #13

As a former smoker Lulu KC Mar 2023 #15