Frederic March won the Best Actor Oscar for playing both the brilliant doctor and his fearsome alter-ego. But despite that prestige, many of the suggestive scenes with bar singer Ivy (Miriam Hopkins) were cut by local censors.
After the kindly Dr. Jekyll first comes to her rescue from an assailant, Ivy shows off her upper thigh (which he explores for injuries) and she holds his hand down and keeps it there. She sizes him up and says, "Now you're the kinda woman would do something for." The camera lingers on her legs as she takes off her stockings and she playfully throws her garter at him. He leaves her, apparently naked, in bed as she swings her leg, softly cooing, "You'll come back soon?" He returns, but as the monstrous Hyde, who terrorizes her telling her, "I hurt you because I love you, my dear."
Those sadomasochistic scenes were reproduced in the 1941 version with Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman, a clear influence on the scenes between Dennis Hopper and Bergman's daughter, Isabella Rossellini, in Blue Velvet.
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