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A page for scribg HaveAGayOldTime: Film. The tle song of 42nd Street refers to girls om "the fifti" and "the eighti" — as the streets of … * tv tropes gay old time *
A Southern Pacific Railroad 1937 documentary "Daylightg the Padr'" about s luxury passenger ler rolls around California, n be viewed here and has a part at 17:36 the vio where the announcer says, "Y, all this is San Francis, a gay metropolis of fashnable shops, fe hotels. Disney's Fun and Fancy Free wh l like Jimy Cricket's "Life is a song - happy, gay" and the lyrics "What a very merry day/All the world is gay.
" Fun Balloon Land: The narrator durg the 1965 Philalphia Thanksgivg Day Para the word "gay" to mean happy, and apparently has no other synonyms for bee she about 7 tim the 35 mute segment. Grand Hotel: The Baron tells Krgele that his creed is "a short life and a gay one", to which Krgele rponds: "A short life, Baron? In Charlie Chapl's Morn Tim (1936) Tramp's girliend wr on his sleeve the lyrics of a song he's supposed to sg and starts as "A pretty girl and a gay old man flirted on the boulevard.
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When the archaeologists fd that Imhotep went unwillgly to his ath and speculate he may have been executed for treason, one of them says "Maybe he got too gay wh the vtal virgs the temple. ") In the Danish film Operatn Lovebirds, Fre lls the gun Schmidt giv him a "bøsse", a Danish term for gun that is today almost exclively ed s other meang, a gay man. " This one is pecially amg once you know that the e of the word "gay" to mean "homosexual" origated theatril slang well before migrated to the mastream vernacular.
When the tle character of Sabra learns how to make a souffle, the teacher tells her and the other stunts, "The souffle, mt be gay. ) Le om the movie versn of You Can't Take It Wh You (1938): "It's certaly gog to be gay around here when you leave, Grandpa?
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Used The Nice Guys to unrsre Healy's view that kids know too much the days: a class of children watch a vio that scrib a towel as havg 'gay lors' and they all burst out lghg. Your Highns vok this liberately after playg up a good b of Ho Yay between brothers Fab and Thao, when Fab asks his brother to "Stay here and be gay wh father and me! " An stance that rgs pecially odd to morn ears occurs a h song of the 1930s, "Girls Were Ma To Love And Kiss"; the sger, fendg his womanizg ways, asks "Shall I be blamed if God has ma me gay?
" (Given that the word was already Jazz slang for both "swger" and "homosexual" by that time, this may have been an tentnal Double Entendre, an -joke that most listeners would miss.
) In Jerry Vale's "Pretend You Don't See Her", the sger advis himself to "se and pretend to be gay" when the object of his unrequed affectns approach. In the classic ballad "The Cowboy's Lament" (perhaps better known as "The Streets of Laredo") the dyg wboy sgs "Once the saddle I ed to go dashg, once the saddle I ed to go gay.
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Andy Williams' "May Each Day", which was sung at the end of his shows, ntaed the le "May each day the year be a good one, / May each dawn fd you happy and gay" the olr sense of lively and joyo, as he was wishg the dience joyful memori for each day and moment of the year. The pany was gay, we'd turn night to day Dean Mart's song "That's Amore" has the lyrics "Hearts will play, Tippy-tippy-tay, Tippy-tippy-tay/Like a gay tarantella".
" The old song "Aba Daba Honeymoon": All night long they chattered away / All day long they were happy and gay "It's a Big, Wi, Wonrful World" is a lovely old song that's never heard nowadays, possibly due to s openg l parg beg love to beg "a gay Santa Cls. " Nowadays, 's hard enough durg Christmas to fd time to Deck The Hall[s] wh boughs of holly; some of will never manage, "Don we now our gay apparel.
" "Somebody Nobody Lov", wrten by Seymour Miller and bt known Ella Fzgerald's terpretatn, ntas the l, "I've prayed on bend knee/For that certa gay prce charm'/Who was meant for me. From Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Aga (Naturally)":To thk that only yterday I was cheerful bright and gay (We uld mentn later the song his fiancée stands him up at the altar, so maybe there's more to ...