Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:09 am
Call it misogyny of the highest order if you must, but please admit it's absolutely wonderful camp. This film has Camp in spades! I saw this one yesterday after taping it from TCM and was absolutely floored. In my opinion, Rosalind Russell's motormouth is put to even better use here than in His Girl Friday. Cukor was a master at maneuvering these screwballish scenes, but the catfights present are marvelous, as is Joan Crawford's final line:
"And by the way, there's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used
in high society... ...outside of a kennel."
I would have liked to spend an afternoon smoking cigarettes in a hotel lobby with Anita Loos if I had lived in the 30's. "Where do they come up with those plots?" (And poisonous asides.)
*The fashion, hats especially, is choice, and the Technicolor makes the fashion show all the better. I love R. Russell's blouse with the eyes on it and the cowboy costumes Mary Boland and Paulette Godard wear.*
Is there a record for put-downs in a movie?
"And by the way, there's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used
in high society... ...outside of a kennel."
I would have liked to spend an afternoon smoking cigarettes in a hotel lobby with Anita Loos if I had lived in the 30's. "Where do they come up with those plots?" (And poisonous asides.)
*The fashion, hats especially, is choice, and the Technicolor makes the fashion show all the better. I love R. Russell's blouse with the eyes on it and the cowboy costumes Mary Boland and Paulette Godard wear.*
Is there a record for put-downs in a movie?