Monday, February 25, 2008

Mama Long Legs

This weekend I got to watch the awesome movie Dangerous When Wet. I chose it because I'm a big fan of multi-million dollar aquamusicals featuring Miss Esther Williams, but it turned out I was also enamored by Miss Charlotte Greenwood.

Greenwood was a ye olde time vaudevillian, and popped up as an old dame in a number of musicals, notably as Aunt Eller in Oklahoma. She was six feet tall and either was double-jointed or made of pisketti.

I sure like this number here with her & William Demarest. They just don't make 'em like they used to.

1 comment:

ALH said...

She's not exactly graceful, but definitely very bendy. And I admire that.