" I detest cheap sentiment!"

"What a story...Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end!" 
So wisecracked the dresser Birdie Coonan at Eve Harrington's sob story in All About Eve.

I adore sassy Hollywood, always have done.
I wish I could be as cool as Ida Corwin from Mildred Pierce who commentated about the odious Veda Pierce by puffing on her cigarette and throwing out the quip " Personally I think alligators have the right idea...they eat their young"  and I would kill to be able to roll my eyes like Bette Davis and spit out a "what a dump!" remark when the need arises.

This clip of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart talking about sex in The Big Sleep is a clever example of how the Hayes code was sideswiped by metaphor and innuendo


21 comments:

  1. "just put your lips together and blow"
    "it's even better when you help"

    some of my fave bogie & bacall lines

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  2. George Sanders has some wonderful lines in All About Eve, but my favourite is Bette's "Fasten your seat belts; it's going to be a bumpy night."

    Barbara Stanwyck, in Double Indemnity, is all-out great: (ice)cool, sassy.....rotten to the core.

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  3. I'm not familiar with the film but I think I'll definitely be looking it up shortly. Thanks for the recommendation x

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  4. I'm not familiar with the film but I think I'll definitely be looking it up shortly. Thanks for the recommendation x

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  5. Oh man .... I grew up in a cinema :)
    My mom was very young, her sisters were too, so what did they do during the day ? go to the cinema.
    I came along .. small tragedies occurred ... I became part of the group who went to the cinema .. at a very young age, I learned how to be quiet.
    I think of all of them, Bette Davis was / is my favorite .. you could hate her and love her at the same time.
    There is nothing quite so perfect as sitting in a dark theater with or without that bucket of popcorn and getting lost in another time and place with people like them ..

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  6. OMG I didn't know they had sex in those days!

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  7. At the risk of another innuendo, what a magnificent entrance.

    Jean

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  8. Bogart is so cool. I may even take up smoking again.

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  9. I HAVE used the "What a dump" line and rolled the eyes. I lost count.

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    1. LOL, I think you are not alone in that :)

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  10. Not to take anything away from Bette Davis, who I love, but she says that "what a dump" line kind of offhandedly in BEYOND THE FOREST. It's really Liz Taylor's imitation in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF that made it legendary.

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  11. 1942, To Be Or Not To Be.

    Maria Tura: No, no, no. I think we've talked much too much about me. Tell me about yourself.

    Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: Well, there isn't much to tell. I just fly a bomber.

    Maria Tura: Oh, how perfectly thrilling!

    Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: I don't know about it being thrilling. But it's quite a bomber. You might not believe it, but I can drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.

    Maria Tura: Really?

    Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: Does that interest you?

    Maria Tura: It certainly does.

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  12. And just for the heck of it, a quote from Groucho Marx:

    "Sex at my age is like trying to shoot pool with a rope."

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  13. They don't make 'em like they used to!

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  14. Lauren Bacall, without doubt the sexiest woman ever to walk upon this earth! X

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  15. What inspired this post? Not your usual....

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  16. And a happy happy belated birthday to you.

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