On a lighter note: I didn't think you could make jokes about first base even in pre-Code films, especially to Edward Everett Horton's face.
There's a movie called King of Jazz (1930), an early-sound, early-colour, plotless revue of musical numbers and blackout routines. Edward Everett Horton appears in one of the latter, asking his girlfriend's father for permission to marry her:
Father: Can you afford to support a family? After all, two can well become three, or more. EEH: (pauses) Well -- we've been lucky so far.
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On a lighter note:
I didn't think you could make jokes about first base even in pre-Code films, especially to Edward Everett Horton's face.
There's a movie called King of Jazz (1930), an early-sound, early-colour, plotless revue of musical numbers and blackout routines. Edward Everett Horton appears in one of the latter, asking his girlfriend's father for permission to marry her:
Father: Can you afford to support a family? After all, two can well become three, or more.
EEH: (pauses) Well -- we've been lucky so far.