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And ya never did tell me who was whose little chickadee.
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i checked out the site, and kept getting the same 7 quotes over and over.. almost as if the randomizer was broken..
i couldn't find my favorite.. so this might not be word perfect. but i liked
"Why don't you come up and see me sometime when i have on nothing but the radio?"
As i recall, it was a line in a movie, and characters where trying to schedule things, and one person when busy, kept saying "I have something on for that day, that time.."
and these two, from the quote site are very good..
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Good sex is like good Bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
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But no mouse ever had tits like hers.Encyclopedia says her dates were 1892 - 1980. It also says she co-wrote My Little Chickadee.
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And ya never did tell me who was whose little chickadee.
Sorry, F. In the movie, WCF calls Mae "my little chickadee".
The credits to WCF's movie often listed him as one of the screenwriters, but always under an alias. For example, in one movie (I believe it was My Little Chickadee) this credit-line names "Mahatma Kane Jeeves" -- which was WCF's pun on an upper-class Brit commanding the butler. ("My hat, my cane, Jeeves!")
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Another Mae quote from that site sugesst what could be an interesting discussion topic.
I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.
My guess is that movie-makers of those days had to be very creative to craft entendres that would evade the censors' notice. Can any movie experts of buffs provide amusing examples? paulb?
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In Mutiny on the Bounty, Clark Gable, reclining with Dorothy Lamour. reachs up, picks a banana. and with a lascivious leer, peels it. I doubt very much that bananas grew on Pitcairn's Island at the time of the Mutiny, but they do now.
There was an often quoted line in the Thirties: "I'm a success! my book has been banned in Boston!"
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Another Mae quote from that url:
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
Personal favorite:
I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
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Since nobody else has, I will address relationship between Mae West and bouyancy. In WWII, everybody on a troopship wore a bulky kapok filled vest for flotation if boat sank. They were so unglamourous that it was no compliment to Mae West that they were popularly named after her. Aviators had an inflatable type
The only thing about them that might have given rise to the name was that in the pectoral region they were much bulkier, and made unconscious person float on back, with chin up.
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Thanks, Keiva. With the help of Halliwell's filmgoer's companion, I offer the following excerpts:
"A much cleverer woman than she was usually given credit for being, [Mae West] seemed to talk in epigrams. In her seventies on TV, when someone gushed:
- Oh, Miss West, I've heard so much about you
the reply was:
- Yeah, but you can't prove a thing.
When a life jacket was named after her during World War II, her reaction had the appearance of spontaniety:
- I've been in "Who's Who" and I know what's what, but it's the first time I ever made the dictionary.
… For the rest, one can only list a few sparklers:
- She's one of the finest women who ever walked the streets.
- How tall are you son?
- Ma'am, I'm six feet seven inches.
- Let's forget the six feet and talk about the seven inches.
(On arriving at her office and being greeted by a score of virile young men):
- I'm feeling a little tired today. One of those fellows'll have to go."
Her best film (according to most critics) was She done him wrong (1933) with Cary Grant, adapted from her stage success Diamond Lil. The film society which I'm involved with has programmed this film in May 2002. Lucky us!
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WCF calls Mae "my little chickadee".
Well, I've never seen the movie but I had heard and I have found one* site that claims that it was the other way around. This may be like "We don' need no steenkeeng badges" or "Play it again, Sam".
Or, who played the title role in the movie The Great Lebowski ?
*But we all know the value of *one site and it does say that they were reversing roles. He asked her, "Why don'cha come up and see me sometime."
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