Word: balbriggan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expedient to end a picture that otherwise threatened to go on forever. Like most movies that are built on the theory that four stars are better than one, Boom Town is not so much a picture as a series of personal appearances. Stripped to a suit of balbriggan underwear in one scene, Clark Gable reveals a paunch. Fully clothed throughout, Hedy Lamarr still reveals nothing...
...dialogue ("Oh, Moms, I'm so glad you and Dads decided to install a Genfeedco automatic oil burner and air conditioner with the new self-ventilating screen flaps plus finger control!"), Bobby answers the door and "admits Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher and their three children, attired in long balbriggan underwear. General greetings." Then Mrs. Fletcher delivers the line which should stop U. S. advertising copywriters in their tracks for a long time...