Symbols and Tropes
Hildy's Clothes
We've said it before, and we'll say it again: if we had a time machine, we would never want to go back to 1940. That sexism. That racism. But, on the other hand, they really knew how to dress to im...
Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy is the actor who plays Bruce Baldwin. But he's also an inside joke. When Louie asks Walter what Bruce looks like, he responds, WALTER: That guy in the movies, Ralph Bellamy.The joke i...
Skywriting
When they were standing over the judge to be divorced, Walter hired a skywriter to write in the clouds, Hildy. Don't be hasty. Remember my dimple. Walter. The judge delayed the divorce twenty minut...
Swinging Gates
Early on in the film, we watch Hildy and Walter walking through the newsroom. Well, they're not doing anything as dull as "walking"—Walter's striding and Hildy's sashaying.Walter goes through a d...