"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination."
Many happy returns today to Dame Judi Dench, who blows out 85 candles on her cake! I won't call her a "national treasure|", as she despises the term, but suffice to say... eveybody loves her.
Despite her many and varied roles over the years, some Shakespearean, some comedic, some deadly serious, some romantic, some dramatic - today is a Tacky Music Monday, so let's settle on something in the Folies Bergère style, shall we?
Le cinema today is in a crisis
Directors are so existentialistes
The movies are not worth their entrance prices
If no one sings a love song when he's kissed
Love cannot be love without le singing
A string, a clarinet, a saxophone
Take a lesson from this old Parisienne
And the finest entertainment she has known
Folies Bergère
Oh, what a showing of color, costume and dancing
Not a moment in life could be more entrancing
Than an evening you spend aux Folies Bergère
Folies Bergère
Not a soul in the world could be in despair
When he is glancing at the fabulous stage
Des Folies Bergère
Folies Bergère
La musique la danse, leson, la lumiere
Les petits jolies seins des belles bouquetieres
Sur la belle passarelle des Folies Bergère
Pas de mysteres
Le spectacle est tout a fait decouvert
"Et pas trop cher"
Viens ce soir avec moi aux Folies Bergère
Folies Bergère
The music, the lights and the laughter
The answer to what you are after
Each night at the Folies Bergère
Folies Bergère
By the heavens above you will swear
There is nothing rarer
Than the Folies Bergère
Folies Bergère
The stage overflowing and giving
A musical reason for living
Each night at the Folies Bergère
Folies Bergère
To your modern ideas I compare
One derriere
At the Folies Bergère
The answer to what you are after
The music, the lights and the laughter
Of the Folies Bergère
Many happy returns, Ma'am!
Dame Judith Olivia Dench CH DBE FRSA (born 9th December 1934)
Have you ever seen her as Desiree in "A Little Night Music"? (On video, I mean...) She was of course incredible!
ReplyDeleteWe've seen Maureen Lipman doing it on stage (and in that post I featured Regina Resnick singing it, because there was no footage of that particular performance); I've featured both the immortal Stritchy singing it - and even Margaret Hamilton(!) - but not Dame Judy...
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Jx
I adore that woman!
ReplyDeleteEverybody does! Jx
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