It’s raining right now. I was out on the balcony with palm trees whispering overhead, drinking coffee, and rain started falling, a cool chill rain. There was blue sky over towards the ocean, but grey directly overhead. The weather here is strange to me – strange and beautiful.
Now onto the important thing: Here is, for me, one of the funniest 2 minutes in any film. I can’t get enough. This is Lucy’s singing recital in The Awful Truth. Cary Grant believes that she is having an affair with her music teacher – so he busts in on what he thinks will be his wife in a clinch with another man … only to find her in the middle of a genteel opera recital.
I love her last moment – when she laughs ON KEY – hard to describe – and I love when he wrestles with the chair and table, and how his hair gets all messy and wild.
I loved that pratfall at the beginning. But nothing beats the on key laugh.
GOD, I LOVE THAT MOMENT SO MUCH!!!!! One of the BEST PRATFALLS ON FILM. Sooooooo FUNNY! I mean, the DRAWER bit?! Come ON.
Me jujitsu.
I’m still laughing. (sorely needed–am in the throes of a G/I flu. Do me a favor and never have it coming out both ends when you’re 8 months pregnant, ok? )
Me jujitsu!!!!!!
I adore him.
My intent was to email, but, for some reason, I cannot negotiate the interface. So, instead, I will post, and I pray that you will forgive me.
“Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:55:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marion “Many Days Penguins Osage Furious Fun YeeHaw!”
Subject: Irish, Freud and a Dragon?
To: redhead2@sheilaomalley.com
Thank you for you blog.
I read a bit, here and there.
I don’t know if I will return, but I hope I will.
The Departed was good, but being given the oppurtunity to read your blog, was better.
I could go on and on, but I have nothing to say.
Marion
PS – If you quote my email, email me, so I can read it. Not that you will, or that I am asking you to. But, I would kick myself, everytime I thought of emailing you, and not mentioning that I wanted a email, if a quote you took. Kind of like, knowing the stove is off, not checking to see if it is off, and then obsessing the whole trip, about why you did not check to see if the stove was off. M”
That is a truly inspired clip. Jeez, Irene Dunne! The bit with the drawer, Grant’s hair, that imperturbable guy next to him, Irene’s utter radiance, and then that perfect laugh. It is incredibly funny, but it’s also extremely sexy. To have a woman like Irene Dunne look at you like that…
it IS the laugh.
Lord God, Irene, come on and have a drink with me, Honey.
What a treat seeing that scene again.
To this day, that is the funniest movie I have ever seen. I laughed so hard my sides hurt.
Thanks. Hank
It is incredibly funny, but it’s also extremely sexy.
Seconded. If you don’t just fall in love with Irene Dunn at that moment, there’s something wrong with you.
Irene Dunne and Cary Grant make a marvelous on-screen couple. I love that scene from The Awful Truth. All three movies they did together were wonderful: The Awful Truth, My Favorite Wife, and Penny Serenade.