After doing my first script i realised that i had not used any of the slang that is used so well in film noir classics. Therefore i knew that i needed to research into it before i could start changing the language of my chracters.
I put a search in Google and it came up with: http://www.angelfire.com/comics/howardfineandhoward/20sTo40sPhrases.html
This website was very helpful as it gave me lots of different 40's American slang that my chracters would have used at the time. These included:
-Dame- A Woman
-Big Cheese - The most important or influential person; boss. Same as big shot.
-Ossified - a drunk person.
-Sheba - A woman with sex appeal (from the move Queen of Sheba) or (e.g. Clara Bow).
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