TeeHeeLawrence
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I will leave it to more experienced students of foot tickling and movie reality to establish Capucine's actual ticklishness.
Whether she was or not actually ticklish or (And this is no small feat, even if it involves small feet.) was simply acting up a hilarious storm is irrelevant to me. She certainly projected a wonderful ticklish reaction. Otherwise, we wouldn't be considering this at length.<p>
This scene in NORTH TO ALASKA is one of those mainstream rarities: a prolonged movie tickling scene that helps drive the plot. <br>It's actually hard to come up with many others. The two that immediately come to mind are F/M: WAY OUT WEST and GREAT CATHERINE.
There are any number of other lovely tickling moments in Studio Era movies. Cary Grant, hidden behind a door, nudging Irene Dunne's ribs with a pencil while she tries to listen with a straight face to Ralph Bellamy's fatuous poetry in THE AWFUL TRUTH is one. However, these are almost always just THAT: moments, and they're usually incidental to the plot. Depicting the tickling of a woman's feet seems rarer still during the period. I've always presumed the Production Code--the basis of Hollywood censorship from 1934 until the '60's--was nervous about anything approaching fetishistic eroticism.<p>
Anyway, I'm less concerned with establishing the reality of someone's ticklishness in a mainstream entertainment or a fetish video than I am simply appreciative when someone seems satisfyingly tickled. Truly ticklish tootsies or good acting? Delicious ends justify the necessary means, and if the latter include felicitous "faking," I'm cool. <br>I've never quite understood the demand that fetish entertainment be more "real" than that in the mainstream, particularly if explicit sexual activity is not presented. I've no qualms if someone merely "acts" ticklish, if the performance is diverting.<p>
I think many of us agree, at least, that Capucine was MOST diverting in that scene, eh? (And I have wondered if the film's producer Charles Feldman had a hand in the scene's existence at all, for he and C were apparently lovers....)
Whether she was or not actually ticklish or (And this is no small feat, even if it involves small feet.) was simply acting up a hilarious storm is irrelevant to me. She certainly projected a wonderful ticklish reaction. Otherwise, we wouldn't be considering this at length.<p>
This scene in NORTH TO ALASKA is one of those mainstream rarities: a prolonged movie tickling scene that helps drive the plot. <br>It's actually hard to come up with many others. The two that immediately come to mind are F/M: WAY OUT WEST and GREAT CATHERINE.
There are any number of other lovely tickling moments in Studio Era movies. Cary Grant, hidden behind a door, nudging Irene Dunne's ribs with a pencil while she tries to listen with a straight face to Ralph Bellamy's fatuous poetry in THE AWFUL TRUTH is one. However, these are almost always just THAT: moments, and they're usually incidental to the plot. Depicting the tickling of a woman's feet seems rarer still during the period. I've always presumed the Production Code--the basis of Hollywood censorship from 1934 until the '60's--was nervous about anything approaching fetishistic eroticism.<p>
Anyway, I'm less concerned with establishing the reality of someone's ticklishness in a mainstream entertainment or a fetish video than I am simply appreciative when someone seems satisfyingly tickled. Truly ticklish tootsies or good acting? Delicious ends justify the necessary means, and if the latter include felicitous "faking," I'm cool. <br>I've never quite understood the demand that fetish entertainment be more "real" than that in the mainstream, particularly if explicit sexual activity is not presented. I've no qualms if someone merely "acts" ticklish, if the performance is diverting.<p>
I think many of us agree, at least, that Capucine was MOST diverting in that scene, eh? (And I have wondered if the film's producer Charles Feldman had a hand in the scene's existence at all, for he and C were apparently lovers....)