Gossip Friday: Comrade X Currency
From November 1940:
In “Comrade X”, Hedy Lamarr plays a street conductor in Russia. Clark Gable gets on her car and gives her some “rubles” for his carfare. We just happened to be looking at the “rubles”–and they turned out to be Marie Antoinette coins, last used in [the 1937 Norma Shearer picture] “Marie Antoinette”.
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Interesting piece of film trivia there!
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2 Comments
Jessica P.
That’s funny! hahaha Apparently the clothes worn in the 1940 “Pride and Prejudice” were borrowed from “Gone with the Wind.” I guess Hollywood believed in recycling!
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I love it too when you can spot Hollywood recycling!