Is the name 'Clitterhouse' in 'The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse' a rude joke?
Ever since seeing the The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse, I have wondered if clitterhouse, which can easily be pronounced as clitoris, is a way to sneak a 'vulgar' word into a movie title.
Clitterhouse doesn't seem to appear very much as this instance of the last name of a fictional caharacter and the name of a London development.
Best Answer
Highly unlikely
The movie is based on a story and stage play of the same name...
...written by short-story writer Barré Lyndon, which ran for three months on Broadway with Cedric Hardwicke after playing in London.
Given that the film was produced in 1938 it would have fallen under the strict Motion Picture Production Code ("Hays Code") which, if there had been even a hint of "immorality" or innuendo, would have required a name change.
...Under Hays' leadership, the MPPDA, later known as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), adopted the Production Code in 1930 and began strictly enforcing it in 1934. The Production Code spelled out what was acceptable and what was unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a public audience in the United States.
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