Old movies and thermometers

Caught a 1937 movie w/ Carol Lombard “ “Nothing Sacred” and there’s a scene where her male companion asks her about thermometers and she replies she has three!

I found that interesting. Three.

I wonder how many other older movies touched on the use of or referencing to temperature taking and/ or thermometers.

I wonder if one of them was a rectal thermometer

Just enough thrown out to rouse your curiosity or whet your appetite. 3? Oral, rectal, vaginal.

I've never seen it but there was supposedly a 1930s short comedy film titled “Mr. Smith gets the flu” or something similar. It starred the lady who played the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz as a nurse. She examines the man and then pulls out a thermometer. The narrator says, “Uh oh, it looks like Mr. Smith is going to have his temperature taken. Let's give him some privacy.” Then the camera fades out.

I’m aware of some popular films from the last several years, that had at least a few references to rectal temps, but none of them come close to the Playdoc and similar videos, some of which was previewed on the internet.

I caught the comedy spoof, “Frankenhooker” where the line” Wanna take my temperature? Bet you got a big thermometer!“ was used twice.

I think it was from the same people who put out “Toxic Avenger”.

Always hunting for RT-scenes I saw a wild website called eporner.com, where the subject is mommy/daughter punishments in case of

disobedience, and one scene shows a cute daughter having her temp taken against her will, purely for punishment and discipline!

Unfortunately, this scene was deleted because of copyrights. But does anybody of you know where this film of 44m (!) might come from?

Would like to see!

Captain 372, Amsterdam

My recollections of watching movies when I was a kid was that they showed oral temperatures, which was at odds with what happened at home and at the hospital.

@Quirkerz Unfortunately, Youtube says the movie is no longer available (perhaps in my country). I was however able to watch it on another site, but unfortunately overdubbed in a language I don't speak. It shows a nurse holding a thermometer with two kids, and she expels one of the kids out of the room, but I don't understand what happens…

@Jacana

Which movie are you referring to?

Well, there is the older film the courtship of Eddie’s father where Eddie gets sick and the girlfriend takes Eddie’s temperature rectally, but it’s done under the covers so you never really see anything.

Oh, I just thought of another one. There was a movie I believe it was from the 40s or the 50s called black narcissus which featured nuns in the Himalayas and there’s a scene where there’s a sick baby and one of the nuns takes the baby temperature although you don’t see anything, I think the comment was made what the temperature was and then something to do with. Do you think that’s too high for a baby.

OK, OK I posted too much about this today. I think but there is one more movie that comes to mind. It’s called Dr. Zhivago, anyway it’s got a rectal temperature in it. You don’t see a real lot but it’s definitely there.

There is a Carry On film, I think its Carry On Nurse, in which a patient is given a rectal temperature using a daffodil instead of a thermometer. Well, that's British humour for you.

The temperature taking in Dr. Zhivago is ambiguous. It could have been under the arm or possibly rectal.