Miss Norma Shearer and I share so much more than just a birthday...
CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
Oh, is it your birthday If so...big long distance cyber hug. xx
ReplyDeleteBless you - thanks, Dinahmow! Jx
DeleteHappy Birthday dearest Gin Blossom!!!!!! Here's to many more! I shall have my nightly gin in your honor tonight and wear a hat.
ReplyDeleteNow on to the cake and candles...put your lips together and blow.....
My usual pose... Jx
DeleteLove this moment in the movie. Happy birthday, oh wondrous one.
ReplyDeleteI often look in the mirror and wonder, too... Jx
DeleteI love the way her eyes pop when Miss Sheerer says "red"!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Jon! x
Mine do that when I'm wearing a lovely sable and I've had my nails done... Jx
DeleteHappy Birthday, dear one. The big 2-OH? How fun. Put on your dancing shoes, darling. Trip that light fantastic beneath a shiny disco ball. Wishing you the very best. Kizzes.
ReplyDelete"The big 2-OH?!" I left my twenties decades ago, dearie... Jx
DeleteHope you had a glamorous day!
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If only, Ms Scarlet. If only... Jx
DeleteHappy birthday!
ReplyDeleteMerci! Jx
DeleteBelated birthday wishes - and thanks for the fond memory of that other Her Imperial Majesty, Regina Fong.
ReplyDeletePS: Another great line from that movie - "Fetch me a bromide! And put some gin in it!"
Ah, yes - dear old Reg!
DeleteThe Women is chock-full of juicy quotes. No wonder it's one of my favourite films of all time... Jx
Happy Belated Birthday! Nothing like a little Claire Booth Luce to brighten up my day! I LOVED Rosalind Russel in this - she stole the show IMHO. You always steal the show, baby. Here's to another year! XXOO
ReplyDeleteI believe it was Miss Booth Luce who had one of my favourite interchanges with Dorothy Parker (I use it still, needless to say), as they entered a narrow doorway together:
DeleteClaire: "Age before beauty, Dotty, dear..."
Dorothy [sweeping ahead]: "And pearls before swine!"
Jx
PS I loved Roz Russell in this, too - fab costumes! By Adrian, of course.
“I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman and a lot in every man.”
ReplyDeleteNorma Shearer In 'The Women' (1939).
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From what I can gather, she was playing to type. Jx
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