{"id":9407,"date":"2009-06-02T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9407"},"modified":"2010-07-03T05:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T09:30:05","slug":"almost-eighty-years-after-the-picture-was-made-that-grapefruit-half-smashing-into-mae-clarkes-face-still-makes-most-of-us-wince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9407","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAlmost eighty years after the picture was made, that grapefruit half smashing into Mae Clarke\u2019s face still makes most of us wince.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"public-enemy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/public-enemy.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/mae-clarke-in-public-enemy.html\">A great post by The Siren<\/a> about Mae Clarke and that grapefruit scene in <i>The Public Enemy<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The still you always see of Cagney smushing the grapefruit into Clarke&#8217;s face &#8211; the one that is usually used to represent the scene &#8211; has a static quality to it (obviously &#8211; it&#8217;s a still) &#8211; it looks almost posed &#8211; and cannot convey the nastiness, contempt and sudden violence that his gesture has in it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather someone slap me than do what he does with that grapefruit.  Amazing moment &#8211; and fascinating backstory about it <a href=\"http:\/\/selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/mae-clarke-in-public-enemy.html\">over at The Siren&#8217;s<\/a> (follow the links.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k4R5wZs8cxI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k4R5wZs8cxI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great post by The Siren about Mae Clarke and that grapefruit scene in The Public Enemy. The still you always see of Cagney smushing the grapefruit into Clarke&#8217;s face &#8211; the one that is usually used to represent the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9407\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[339,1524],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15306,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions\/15306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}