The new musical's song lyric seems to be a nod to the song I'm Through With Love, famously sung by Marilyn Monroe in the original film. That song was written in 1931, still in the Prohibition Era, though the film looks to be set a few years earlier in the late 1920s (the St. Valentine's Day Massacre was in 1929). In any case, that lyric isn't about a Frigidaire but about frigid air (and I'll admit, until I looked it up, I thought MM was always singing Frigidaire).
Your post made me also google "The postman always rings twice"....as a phrase. I wondered if it was in common usage in the 1920s. But an article I found said that the title was specifically suggested to author James Cain from a writer friend when Cain was struggling to come up with a great title in 1933. So, the phrase, in truth, wasn't commonly used until the book was published in 1934. |
