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Lodgings to Let, an 1814 engraving featuring a double entendre. He: "My sweet honey, I hope you are to be let with the Lodgins!" She: "No, sir, I am to be let alone".. A double entendre [note 1] (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that ...
She Done Him Wrong is a 1933 pre-Code American crime/comedy film starring Mae West and Cary Grant, directed by Lowell Sherman.The plot includes melodramatic and musical elements, with a supporting cast featuring Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery Sr., Rochelle Hudson, and Louise Beavers.
Her act became famous for including double entendres and references to homosexuality and lesbianism. [1] Faye herself was bisexual and hinted at this frequently in her act; [ 2 ] she would often playfully alter pronouns in love songs or weave her girlfriend's name into lyrics of song.
Considered a sex symbol, she was known for her breezy sexual independence and her lighthearted bawdy double entendres, often delivered in a husky contralto voice. [2] She was active in vaudeville and on stage in New York City before moving to Los Angeles to begin a career in the film industry.
On the release of a greatest hits collection in 1994, one music critic called it "a collection of political incorrectness and marvelously bawdy, double entendre-laden masterworks." [ 5 ] Other Harris songs in the dirty blues genre include "Lolly Pop Mama" (1948), [ 11 ] "I Like My Baby's Pudding" (1950), [ 12 ] and "Sittin on It All the Time ...
The first of Porter's "list songs", it features a string of suggestive and droll comparisons and examples, preposterous pairings and double entendres, dropping famous names and events, drawing from highbrow and popular culture.
It seems that someone at Zynga has been making out with the Blarney Stone since last summer, turning the much-hated and normally insipid Facebook wall posts into fun-loving blurbs of witty puns ...
Billed as "Bawdy but British", Byng was famous for his female impersonations. His songs are full of sexual innuendo and double entendres. Due to the prejudices of the law and of the public at that time, Byng was a closeted gay performer. To have been out, would have been social and professional suicide.