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Hell's
Angels (1930)
In director Howard Hughes' epic war adventure/drama
about WWI combat pilots:
- the realistic aerial dogfights and German zeppelin
raids on London
- the early scenes of a sexy platinum blonde Helen (Jean
Harlow in her first role) - the two-timing, slutty fiancée
of unsuspecting Roy (James Hall), who wore a slinky velvet evening
dress (with beaded straps) that barely covered her breasts as she
encouragingly and enticingly asked Roy's brother Monte Rutledge (Ben
Lyon) to take her home during a dance, while Roy was occupied with
committee matters: "Tired. Take me home, Monte...It's not far.
I've taken a flat in town near canteen headquarters"; once they
arrived by car out in front of her apartment, she asked: "Are
we here?..Wanna come up for a cigarette and a drink?...Come see my
room. I've only had a place of my own for a week. It's a new toy"
- the famed scene in her apartment where she delivered
a memorable line to him after serving him a drink, and chugging down
her own drink:
"Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?" -
he answered: "I'll try to survive" - and then as she retreated
into her bedroom, she let her wrap fall off her bare-back
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The Sexy Helen Retreating Into Her Bedroom
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- during the seduction scene, after she appeared back
at her bedroom door, she was obviously bra-less and naked under
her white-trimmed, low-cut dark robe; she sat herself down on the
couch as Monte asked the follow-up: "Well, are you more comfortable
now?"; she confessed to Monte about her real feelings about
her fiancee Roy, her philosophy of life and her desire not to be
tied down with marriage and family: "You're not a bit like
Roy, are you?...He wouldn't approve of me either if he knew what
I really like...When I'm with Roy, I'm the way Roy wants me to
be"; when asked if she really loved Roy, she admitted: "No,
not really. Not the way Roy wants me to love him. I can't. Roy's
love means marriage and children and never anyone but Roy. I couldn't
bear that. I want to be free. I want to be gay and have fun. Life's
short, and I want to live when I'm alive"; she enticingly
reclined back, almost inviting him to kiss her; when he balked
and began to excuse himself to leave, she allowed herself to be
pulled up into his arms for a forbidden kiss; they were frozen,
inches away from each other's lips for a few moments before they
kissed; the scene faded to black as they embraced and lowered themselves
back onto the couch
- afterwards, in the apres-sex sequence, Monte felt "gloomy," worried,
and awful about cheating on his brother:
"God, I'm rotten..." and he called her "rotten" too
for two-timing his brother - she threw him out: "Get out of
here!...Get out! And stay out!"
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Aerial Dogfights
The Love Triangle - (l to r): Roy, Helen, Monte
Helen to Monte: "Wanna come up for a cigarette and
a drink?"
Helen to Monte:
"Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?"
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