
It's International Women's Day today, dear reader.
What better way to celebrate than with the faboo Steve Hayes aka "Tired Old Queen at the Movies", and his review of an all-time (camp) classic movie, that features an all-female cast..?
Now there's a film that is an eternal source of quotable quotes:
- "You simply must see my hairdresser, I DETEST whoever does yours."
- "She’s got those eyes that run up and down a man like a searchlight."
- "Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it."
- "He almost stood me up for his wife!"
- "Isn’t that (nail polish) divine? Jungle red!" "Looks like you’ve been tearing at somebody's throat!"
- "Oh, poor creatures. They’ve lost their equilibrium because they’ve lost their faith in love. Oh l’amour, l’amour."
- "Where I spit no grass grows ever!"
- "Oh, she can’t help it. It’s just her tough luck that she wasn’t born deaf and dumb."
- "When anything I wear doesn’t please Stephen, I take it off."
- "There is a name for you, ladies, but it isn’t used in high society... outside of a kennel!"
Love it!
Ha! I don’t know how many women would choose this as the film to celebrate International Women’s Day, but oh how I love it. Our new foundation garment. Zips up the back. No bones.
ReplyDeleteEveryone takes away at least one line from this film! Jx
DeleteI've never seen it, but those quotes - and the clips in Steve Hayes' review - have made me want to search it out!
ReplyDeleteNever seen it? Oh, Mr DeVice, you are missing a treat..! Jx
DeleteNEVER SEEN IT?!?!?!?!?! WHAT!!!!!!! Oh dear...I do need a fainting chaise and a bromide with gin....double!
DeleteSylvia Fowler: "Did you get her innuendo?"
DeleteJx
"I'd take you on at billiards, but you haven't got the balls!" (Not sure of origin...probably me!)
ReplyDeleteYup. I think it's a "Dinahmow original"... Jx
DeleteI've had a bromide with gin in it today....
ReplyDeleteOne of my top five movies! Cheers!
Clink, clink, sweetie! Jx
DeleteOne of the few movies I have seen more times than I can count.
ReplyDeleteWe love it so much, we even went to see it on the big screen at the British Film Institute (BFI) back in 2008. It's a wonderful movie! Jx
DeleteOH My Gosh what a fab film.
ReplyDeleteMr De. get it sorted you will love it
It is a fantastic film!
DeleteThere is a bizarrely colourised version of it available free on JustWatch... Jx