July 18 movie: Breakfast for Two. An heiress (Barbara Stanwyck) tries to reform a feckless playboy (Herbert Marshall). The movie was pretty much "meh" except for two things: Eric Blore as the butler, and also two surprisingly early examples of slang, one verbal and one gesture. First was "pub crawling," which meant the exact same thing in 1937 as it does today. Second was air quotes (holding up your hands, and raising and lowering two fingers on each hand to mimic quotation marks). Both were novel or unusual enough that the characters explained them to each other within the movie.
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