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Quotes & Stuff

Mrs. Moorehead: Well, cheer up, Mary; living alone has its compensations. Heaven knows it's marvelous being able to spread out in bed like a swastika.

Countess: Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it!

Crystal: Thanks for the tip. But when anything I wear doesn't please Stephen, I take it off.

Cook: Alright alright if you say so. But that Adonis figure of his won't last forever without a little help from the kitchen.

Edith: What are you gonna write next Nancy, animal stories?
Nancy: I wouldn't have to go to Africa for that.
Sylvia: Oh ha, ha.

Edith: Oh don't mention smoked oysters they turn me emerald GREEN!
Sylvia: Oh Edith you are a bore.
Edith: Lay off my reputation girls while I unswallow.

Peggy: My Johnnie doesn't like Sylvia's Jungle Red. He says he'd like to do her nails right down to the wrist with a big buzzsaw.

Nancy: She's content, content to be what she is.
Sylvia: Which is what?
Nancy: A woman.
Sylvia: Hah! And what are we?
Nancy: Females.
Sylvia: Really, and what are you pet?
Nancy: What nature abhors. I'm an old maid, a frozen asset.

Manicurist: She's got those eyes that run up and down a man like a search light.

Crystal: Say can you beat him? He almost stood me up for his wife!

Sylvia: Well then let the story ride. It'll be forgotten in the morning. Oh you remember the awful things they printed about what's her name before she jumped out the window. There, you see? I can't even remember her name so who CARES Edith.

HouseKeeper: You know the first man that can think up a good explanation how he can be in love with his wife and another woman is gonna win that prize they're always giving out in Sweden.

Countess: Now Buck Winston is nice. He's so young and strong. Have you noticed the play of his muscles? Ah, musical, musical.
Miriam: Well he could crack a coconut with those knees. If he could get them together.

Countess: Well, can we keep this just between the 5 of us? I mean 6 of us?
Miriam: Shoot Flora, it's a nationwide hookup.

"It was a f@#%*$g zoo at times. If you let your guard down for one minute you would have been eaten alive." - Joan Crawford commenting on the film.

Keep an eye on the supporting players, especially Mary Boland as the Countess DeLave. The role was based on a cafe society dame of that era, the Countess DiFrasso, who had a wild affair with Gary Cooper. That romance is satirized here.

Phyllis Povah (Edith Potter) and Marjorie Main (Lucy, Dude Ranch Owner) are the only two carry-overs to the movie from the play cast, which had 666 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York.

The bubble bath scene took 10 hours to shoot. Joan Crawford lost 11 pounds talking over the phone.