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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:A divorce lawyer would have been cheaper than this.]] |
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4 | ''Madam Satan'' is a 1930 musical comedy film, directed by Creator/CecilBDeMille. |
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6 | The absurdly rich Angela and Bob Brooks (their house has a pipe organ!) are experiencing marital difficulties. Angela believes that being married means one has to settle into a life of responsible domesticity, while Bob, for his part, misses the madcap Angela of old and their former passion. Bob, as a result, has taken a mistress. |
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8 | After finding out that her husband is cheating on her, Angela does ''not'' kick him in the balls and then head to Reno for a divorce. No, Angela comes up with an elaborate plan to seduce her husband and reignite the sparks in their marriage. A plan that involves a blimp, an elaborate masked ball on said blimp, and a masked Angela disguised as the scantily clad "Madam Satan". Really. |
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10 | Typical of the sex farces that were a hallmark of UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra. Atypical of the rest of [=DeMille=]'s career, as in years to come he would move away from comedies like this one, in favor of making big-budget spectacles. |
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15 | * BeAWhoreToGetYourMan: Martha the maid expressly tells Angela this, saying "You must make yourself so attractive to him that he won't want to leave you." Then she sings a song about it. Angela eventually follows up on this advice, appearing half-naked at the ball as Madam Satan and enchanting her husband. |
16 | * BlatantLies: Bob and Jimmy's pathetic lies when they claim that the woman identified in the newspaper as "Mrs. Brooks" is actually Jimmy's wife. |
17 | * BodyPaint: A party guest called "Miss Victory" appears to be mostly clothed in body paint. |
18 | * DoubleEntendre: When a probing Angela asks Trixie's maiden name, Jimmy says "She hasn't been a maiden for a long time." |
19 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: We learn all we need to know about Bob and his friend Jimmy when they show up at Bob's front door in the early morning, in tuxedos, drunk. |
20 | * FanserviceExtra: Lots of scantily clad ladies at the masquerade ball. |
21 | * GoldDigger: Trixie is totally in it for the money, as she makes clear to the two dudes who are her partners in a vaudeville act. |
22 | * HaveAGayOldTime: |
23 | ** It's supposed to be a joke based on Madame Satan's atrocious faux-French pronunciation of "Bob." |
24 | --> '''Madame Satan''': Au revoir, Boob!\ |
25 | '''Bob''': ''[irritated]'' Boob is right! |
26 | ** "GAY PARTY IN PERIL WHEN BOLT HITS ZEP: ALL SAFE" |
27 | * InadvertentEntranceCue: There's a shot of a bunch of men in a spa. A man says "I come here to get away from women! It's the only place where they don't horn in!" Cue Trixie in her parachute crashing through the skylight. |
28 | * ItsRainingMen: A most unlikely ending in which all the guests at the ball have to evacuate via parachute when the blimp is struck by lightning and loses its moorings. |
29 | * MasqueradeBall: Jimmy stages an elaborate one on his blimp, which allows Angela to seduce Bob in her "Madam Satan" disguise. |
30 | * TheMistress: Bob's girlfriend Trixie makes the strategic error of using a card with her address on it to leave a note for Bob. |
31 | * SexlessMarriage: It would appear that Bob and Angela are no longer bonking. |
32 | --> '''Bob''': I crave warm affection, and all I get is frozen justice. |
33 | * SleepingSingle: Not an enforced trope in 1930, so here notable as it indicates the passionless state of the Brooks marriage. |
34 | * SplashOfColor: The blimp sequence was originally filmed in two-strip Technicolor, but the footage has been lost and the existing print is all black-and-white. |
35 | * TitleDrop: "Madam Satan" is Angela's alter ego. |
36 | * TwoActStructure: The first part is a standard, somewhat dull 1930 comedy of manners. The second part gets a lot weirder, after they get on the blimp and all the weird costumes come out. |
37 | * VerbalIrony: A lot of this when a frantically improvising Jimmy lies and tells Bob that the woman hidden under the blanket, who is actually Angela, is Jimmy's married girlfriend. |
38 | --> '''Bill''': Her husband must be a sap.\ |
39 | '''Jimmy''': Yes, yes he certainly is. |
40 | * WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Angela finds out that Bob is cheating on her after reading a newspaper story about how "Mr. and Mrs. Brooks" were booked in night court for disorderly conduct. |
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