Let’s be “What’s Up Doc” 1972

I'm Austin Pendleton still playing the same part 40 years later.

I’m ze Hotel Bristol not ze Crystal!

I’m THE Eunice Burns

I am THE Eunice Burns!

I'm Sylvia Louise with a hyphen.

I am Howard’s igneous rocks.

I’m Sue Mengers predicting it would be a steaming piece of shit and a flop. Babs agreed with me.

We were both WRONG.

Howard.

Howard!

HOWARD BANNISTER!

R4 is an imPOSTer!

That's the dumbest thing I ever heard.

I'm a snake, who's lives in mortal fear of tile.

I'm the meaning of propriety.

I'm the $67.45 clock radio.

I’m an avalanche in E flat.

I’m one of the Laraby Foundation Offices...

I'm the wire sculpture that also doubles as a mean weapon.

I’m the Chinese Dragon.

R4 That's a poyson named Eunice?

I’m the friends visiting from the uhhh... New Hebrides, in room 1717.

I’m the yellow pill that reminds the judge to take the blue pill.

I’m the rickety staircase on the wrong side of town.

I'm A Eunice Burns.

I'm Michael Muphy in a small role years before I made Jill Clayburg vomit on the street.

That Judy and I are going to put you into a HOME!

I'm the nose (watch it) on the great Durante.

I’m the prettiest Barbra had ever looked and the prettiest she will ever have been.

I’m the elevator music.

I'm the dumbest thing Howard has ever heard.

(on a side note the first time I ever went to San Francisco I made a point to stay at this hotel. The rooms and lobby looked different but the elevator areas where still the same.)

I’m the dropped napkin.

I’m the foot painting.

I’m the old maid with cateracts that picked up the gun and shot the foot painting.

I’m the broken champagne glasses that the butler broke when he turned back around to avoid the old maid with the cateracts that picked up the gun and shot the foot painting.

I am one of the best delivered lines in comedy movie history. When Ryan O'Neil understatedly says to harried hotel manager John Hillerman "Sorry about the room" and Hillerman replies "oh that's ok we have... lots of others"

The perfect times pause between "we have" and "lots of others" is delicious.

I'm Judge Maxwell's hi-fi that Hugh can't fix.

I'm the white sheet or towel or whatever wrapped around Dr. Howard Bannister's lower half. I'm not sure exactly what I am, but I'm ok, content for the time being.

I'm the "Bombs Away!" eggs.

I couldn't resist. I just had to upload the hysterical John Hillerman scene. My God, he's on screen for two minutes but he makes the most of it. A very funny and short performance.

I'm Sorrell Brook running ahead of Mable Anderson to trip her.

I’m actor Michael Sarazzin, who IS 1970s film!

I'M R34 who belongs in THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT.

LOL r38, oops!

We're the wavy marks left on the floor by Eunice's heels when she is dragged from the convention dining room.

We're the plaid cummerbund and bow tie.

And we're the plaid suitcases.

I'm the Cadillac convertible piloted by an enthusiastic admirer of our secret services.

I am currently ferrous oxide.

I'm Mrs. Van Hoskins age-inappropriate hot pants.

I am the memorable way Judy pronounces the word "nine" when she's disguising her voice, pretending she's a telephone operator.

I'm the deliriously garish decor in the hotel rooms.

I’m Ryan O’s hot, dilf chest. He was so sexy in this movie.

That’s .................................................unbelievable

I'm the Chinese dragon

I’m the double thick roast beef sandwich and a large bottle of diet anything ordered for room 1717.Oh, and room service? Don’t knock on the door or call or anything like that... I’m just putting my little one to bed.

I'm part Italian.

I’m the separate bedrooms, of course.

I'm the TV which can't be unplugged for some odd reason

I’m the beloved Mabel Anderson not playing mean mother in law for once and almost stealing the movie.

Vocal Reverberation Under Spinal Pressure, You Know VRUSP.

What wine are you serving at Table One?

Who are they going to believe? The lady in the bathtub or the man with his pants down ?

I’m the buffering added.(its better for the system)

I’m the large bottle of diet anything.

I’m the Argosy magazine that’s not about Bigfoot or the Zapduder film that Sorell is pretending to read.

I’m the upside down nametage.

I’m Franz.

I’m the stacked boxes of pizzas that is being carried across the street.

I’m the whiplashed neck that the stuntman received from landing on that restaurant outdoor dining table in the wrong way.

I am Eunice's wig.

I'm you. You're me? No I'm Hugh. NOW CUT THAT OUT.

I'm an elderly maid and I've got a gun!

r54 I think I read a monograph on that!

I'm Babs doing my own stunt and crossing the street right in front of an oncoming car, which then crashes into a motorcycle as I narrowly escape being in the middle of it all.

I'm Steve.

I’m the Alta Plaza steps, still damaged by having those 70s behemoths driven down me. Bogdanovich conveniently left that scene out of the filming permit.

Barbra ...having fun...

i'm the tidal wave you can't fight...

WHO THE FUCK IS MABEL ANDERSON? And why is she mentioned twice in this thread?

I am Mabel Albertson's hot pants.

I’m the “Keep San Francisco Clean Week” sign that was being hung. Thankfully the worker used me to swing down to the ground rather than plummet to his death.

I am in the metamorphic or sedimentary rock categories. I mean I can take your igneous rocks or leave them. I relate primarily to micas, quartz, feldspar. You can keep your pyroxenes, magnetites and coarse-grained plutonics as far as I'm concerned.

I am the metamorphic or sedimentary rock categories. I mean I can take your igneous rocks or leave them. I relate primarily to micas, quartz, feldspar. You can keep your pyroxenes, magnetites and coarse-grained plutonics as far as I'm concerned.

[quote]I'm Sorrell Brook running ahead of Mable Anderson to trip her.

Wow. You managed to get three of the four names WRONG. Brava!

I’m anyone who adores anyone who adores Emerson.

I’m editing R49.

I’m Room 1717. I would like a double-thick roast beef sandwich medium rare on rye bread with mustard on the top, mayonnaise on the bottom, and a coffee hot fudge sundae with a large bottle of diet anything. You got that?

Oh, and Room Service, would you put it in the hall outside the door. I mean, don’t bring it in or knock on the door because I’m just putting my little one to sleep. Thank you.

I’m the cable tv in 1972!

I am the avalanche being conducted in E flat.

I’m Judy’s index finger as she scoops up some of her desert or dinner on the tray then scoots across the hall to hide because the elevator door rang.

I’m Judy’s smiling(lips only no teeth) reflection when she picks up the invitation to the convention dinner and realizes she going to crash it, see Steve(Howard) and have some more fun.

I'm the nifty hotel door-within-a-door where they place Ryan O'Neal's dry-cleaned sport coat.

I'm the plaid suitcase that started it all.

I'm the way Babs and Ryan turned a corner on the bike and went from Nob Hill to the Outer Richmond.

I'm the Chinese parade xylophone band playing an Asian-infused version of La Cucaracha.

I'm the big sheet of glass broken by the workers - or was it made of sugar?

I'm the lady at her desk on the phone in the office next to the hotel drug store.

I’m the half smoked cigar, That that drug store cashier is holding while ringing him up for his aspirin.

I’m the cigar the paint guy coming to finish the under renovation penthouse drops from his lips into his bucket of paint when he walks in on Howard and Judy after the piano scene.

I symbolize a cock in the puss!

I’m 459 Durello Street.

I think you mean four five NIYIAN Durello Street R84.

I’m the tentative and anxious “Hello, heh, hel, hello? Hel, hello?” that Eunice utters as she nervously climbs those rickety stairs at 459 Durello Street.

I’m the correct spelling of 459 DIRELLO STREET!

I’m the fabulous baby blue dress and matchy matchy blue pumps Eunice wore to 459 Dirello Street.

I'm the African-American porter who gets a big laugh out of his one line, saying "Yes, Eunice" after hearing Howard say it repeatedly to her.

I’m the number FIVE!!!!!!

I'm the way every man in the movie seems to think Barbra S. is a knockout.

I'm Hugh tossing his hair back.

I’m the bell hop that trips on landing upon the end if his escalator ride.

I’m Judy’s index finder again pointing the way up(on a descending escalator) to understanding a similar meaning for the word propriety.

I’m the bubble bath water that just “came out that way”.

I’m the TWA 707 that takes Howard and Judy towards their new life together.

I'm Howard/Ryan admitting the Judy/Babs is the top in the final credits.

I’m the colossal snout of the sex symbol stah of the film.

I'm this exchange.

Fritz : You will enter Mrs. Van Hoskins' room, through the adjoining room and you will take the jewel case to the basement.

Harry : What if she wakes up and sees me?

Fritz : You will tell her you are smitten with her, that you have have followed her all night, and you will make passionate love to her.

Harry : Couldn't I just kill her?

Sorrell Booke's face and delivery of the last line was hilarious!

I can't believe Barbra said she doesn't understand why the movie's funny. The rest of the world did. But people always say Barbra's funny, but only accidentally, she has no idea why she's funny.

We are the scary men who allegedly molest Eunice. We say allegedly because it is not shown like the judge we find it unbelievable it ever happened...

i am a brave deranged woman who accidently meet up with scary gangsters but still give them a scolding for having Howard's rocks...

I'm Barbra at her most beautiful.

I'm Barbra in the Somewhere video. Also very beautiful...

Barbra and Ryan sizzle...

You're The Top:

I'm the what the fuck did I get myself into look that Frederick gives when he realizes Eunice is the control freak from hell....

Madeline Kahn and Mabel Albertson stole every scene they were in. Madeline also stole Young Frankenstein.

R102. Barbra was quite beautiful in "What's Up Doc," and although a bit off topic, even more beautiful as Daisy Gamble in "On a Clear day You Can See Forever," 1970.

I am Hugh! I am Hugh!

You're upside down.

Streisand was gorgeous in this movie. She and Ryan had an affair. She also had an affair with Omar Sharif during Funny Girl, the lucky bitch.

[quote]I can't believe Barbra said she doesn't understand why the movie's funny.

Barbra isn't fond of the movie because she was forced to do it to save her husband's (Elliott Gould) career. He had to pull out of a film because of his drug problems, and the studio agreed to let him if Barbra did a movie for them. She divorced him shortly thereafter. So, it's understandable that she doesn't have fond memories of that time, which colors her opinion of the film. Although, Bogdanovich says that she was wonderful during the shoot and a joy to work with.

Bogdanovich dishes the dirt about Barbra and the first table read starting at 1:03:00 in this interview. Barbra knew that Madeline had the best lines in the movie and wasn't happy about it.

At least Barbra didn't have her fired like Lucy Ball did at the "Mame" table read. Madeline is so damn funny in the film!

I’m the grocery delivery boy and I want my bike back!

I'm the O'Neal Family Reunion that appears in the movie. Ryan's brother played the delivery boy and Mom played the prudish woman on plane gawking at Judy's and Howard's love making. I assume Daddy O'Neal was busy....

[quote]I'm the African-American porter who gets a big laugh out of his one line, saying "Yes, Eunice" after hearing Howard say it repeatedly to her.

I’m the rekevance of him being described as African-American. Oh, there isn’t any.

^ relevance

I’m the palpable sexual chemistry between Ryan O’Neal and Babs. It could melt buttah.

[quote]I’m the buffering added.(its better for the system)

I’m the “Oh, dear”.

i'm The Main Event the much less sucessful reteaming of Barbra and Ryan....

r118 Bufferin is the brand name of a product consisting of aspirin with buffering added.

I’m the Findelmeyer Proposition.

I'm the courtroom bailiff who gets told to "Make him stop saying that!"

I’m the “You too! “ “Me Too!”

I'm the mathematical skill Babs acquired at Mount Holyoke.

I'm the judge, really making the most of his one scene. He's wonderful.

I'm the white sheet Ryan pulls off the piano when he discovers Barbra.

I’m a foul and depraved spectator in Judge Maxwell’s courtroom.

Judge Maxwell: They’re a foul and depraved-looking lot, bailiff.

Bailiff: Those are just the spectators, your Honor.

Bogdanovich told this great story about Barbra at a Q&A I went to a few years ago at the Egyptian. Barbra didn't understand slapstick and the rhythm of delivering lines. Bog was trying to explain it to her and could tell she really wasn't used to having a strong director, (she basically had been allowed to direct herself!). She nodded, seemed to take it well, but that night Bog got an angry call from her agent, Sue Mengers. "Barbra says you're giving her line readings???"

A couple weeks later, they were shooting the piano on the roof scene where Barbra sings "As Time Goes By". They shoot it once, Bog doesn't like it, and specifically directs Barbra to emphasize the word "MUST" in "You must remember this". Barbra nods.. does it the way he asks.... later that night at home, he gets an even angrier phone call from Sue Mengers, "Now you're telling Barbra how to sing????"

I'm the $50 dollar bill Mabel Albertson hands Barbra at the end of the movie.

R11 - I watched 15 minutes of that interview and Edelstein had a couple of stories wrong. Do your research!

wasn't it five dollars?

Don't feel bad. I'm the one who said Mabel Anderson....

I'm the Volkswagen Beetle floating in San Francisco Bay. They really could float, you know.

[quote]I'm the Volkswagen Beetle floating in San Francisco Bay. They really could float, you know.

If I'd been driving one, I would've been president.

r133 Forgot to sign: Ted Kennedy.

I'm the collective flinch the viewers take when the pedestrian fleeing an avalanche of trash cans flings himself over a fence and lands on a courtyard cafe table, obviously hurting himself badly.

I'm somebody's lunch on a plate that was ruined by that stunt.

I'm Barbra, still not understanding it 46 years later.

I'm the fellow with a chart who can explain who has what suitcase at any particular time during the film.

I'm the man who takes Judy's dinner. She doesn't know who I am but she hates me.....

I'm the bailiff who would go on to star on Mary Hartman Mary Hartman

r135 that was the Ghirardhelli ice cream courtyard.

I'm the the elderly actor who plays the judge. Even though I'm hilarious no one can recall anything else I have acted in....

Yes, we can, "your honor".

At least two.

You were in "Young Frankenstein" (briefly) as a test patient for "Dr. Frahnkensteen" and "Blazing Saddles" as a reverend.

Two of the best comedies of all time.

no r142...I can remember you from Mel Brooks movies and as Ted Baxter's father on The Mary Tyler Moore Show

I’m the direction Bogdanovich gave Babs per the comments at R128.

I’m also the reason this is probably Babs best overall work in film, ever. She actually had a director for once who was in control and she wasn’t “directing” herself with her supposed omniscient knowledge about movie making and genius intuition. Because the truth is, left to her own devices Babs has the tendency to quickly run amok.

Imagine what a truly great film career she could have had if she’d had more experiences like this.

I'm Barbra's cluelessness about the movie, which prevented her from meddling in it.

I'm the hand that opens the book, turns the pages, and closes the book during the opening and closing credits. I'm very dextrous.

I'm the lovely painted fingernails of which I've always been proud.

I'm Mabel Albertson's hot pants.

Who are you?

I am Uwe

I’m the list of classic screwball comedies shown to Streisand and O’Neal by Peter Bogdonavich to get them in the mood...

I’m also the blank stares they gave him because they were too dense to appreciate it. Ruffians.

Yeah I'm sure R128- what did Streisand know of comic timing have been in I Can Get It For You Wholesale (stage) Funny Girl (stage and screen), Dolly, Clear Day, Owl and the Pussycat and of course ad libbing her kook image in clubs and on TV for the decade prior to Doc. Finally she learned about comic timing! Bog. and Streisand were and are buddies you know.

Madeline Kahn was completely different in private than the funny person she played onscreen. She was bland and uncharismatic in her real life.

She's not the least bit interesting in this interview. I think that's why she never progressed beyond being a character actress to becoming a big star.

The amazing thing about the show is that this is probably Streisand's best movie and she's absolutely wonderful in it (I would not say that about any of her other films, including "Funny Girl"), and yet...

... she does not have the funniest performance (that would be Madeline Kahn)

...she does not have the funniest line (that would be Austin Pendleton's: "Don't you dare strike that brave, unbalanced woman!")

...she does not have the funniest moment of physical comedy (that would be Mabel Albertson and Sorrell Booke, wrestling in the hotel hallway)

R154 Madeline was a big star on Broadway; even though she had problems with Hal Prince during "On the 20th Century" and she left early on, her name was the one on the marquee that got people to buy tickets, as he was reminded when he was giving her a hard time and trying to fire her earlier on. She also starred in "The Sisters Rosensweig" hilariously and won a Tony.

I’m the airplane disaster story Simon finds as difficult to swallow as the potage au gelée.

I’m the sandwich de knuckle Judy asks Simon if he he’d like to swallow instead.

I’m Barbra on a break between takes thinking about:

1. How I’m going to call Sue Mengers and complain about how Bogdanovich is giving me way too much direction on this stupid film.

2. How I can’t wait to fuck Ryan again later when we leave the set.

I’m this bizarre fabric doll of Barbra/ Judy wearing the white pantsuit she had on at the Congress of American Musicologists Dinner and also during the car chase.

I'm Bringing Up Baby a 30s classic comedy starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant that What's Up Doc is a homage to . Frankly all I remember from that film is the tiger called Baby and Hepburn's costumes and one getting ripped by Grant. Doc is far more entertaining and memorable...

it was a leopard.

Mr. Larrabee, Austin Pendleton himself, smiled at me when I saw him at a rehearsal hall. I had to refrain from telling him I had seen him stark naked in "Doubles" on Broadway years ago.

I’m the thing that takes its place after romance fades... senility? Trust!

Shouldn't the image of back-then naked Austin Pandleton be a meme?

Pendleton, that is.

[quote]I'm the hand that opens the book, turns the pages, and closes the book during the opening and closing credits. I'm very dextrous.

I tried out for that.

Me too, but they wanted someone younger.

What do you think was my first job?

I’m the frau clutching pearls in a lovely yellow dress that fainted at the party when weapons were brandished.

I’m the acrylic staircase that the actor stunt man kept hitting his chin on on the descent down.

I’m the seagulls that turned and looked in unison as the convertible sped by towards the bay.

I’m the stuntman that jettisoned airborne from the convertible that actually looked really really cool in the film.

It really is a fantastic movie all the way around for everyone involved. "That's...unbeLIEVable" is one of the great movie lines, and line readings, of all time.

I'm the Oscar MK should have been nominated for but it was a tough year with Geraldine Page (Pete and Tillie) , Susan Tyrrel (Fat City) ,Shelley Winters (Poseidon Adventure) and the great Jeannie Berlin (Heartbreak Kid) and the deserving winner Eileen Heckart (Butterflies are Free).....

R172, That's okay, because I won the following year for Moon River.

[quote] That's okay, because I won the following year for Moon River.

Oh, dear.

Madeline Gail Kahn (born Madeline Gail Wolfson; September 29, 1942) in Boston, Massachusetts. She died in New York City on December 3, 1999 at the age of 57.

[quote]Madeline Gail Wolfson

Any relation?

I'm the historic trolleys crossing in front of the speeding Volkswagen. I part ways just before the car crosses the tracks.

I'm the fact that Eunice Burns, despite being in many ways an insufferable person, was nevertheless a good, loyal and honest one (and not without a certain amount of balls) ("Put down those rocks, you philistine!").

I'm also the fact that Mr. Larrabee was probably a better match for her (and also seemed like a genuinely good person, if a bit eccentric).

I'm the VW Bus that gets destroyed during the car chase. And yes, it's one of my top ten films of all time. So many great throwaway lines of mine are straight from there. Plus, Ryan O'Neal maximum hotness.

I'm Peter showing Ryan how to kiss Barbra.

I’m the inside of a Chinese Dragon.

I’m a pic for R170.

I am Ryan O'Neal's perfect body hair.

I’m Judy’s tweed hat.

I'm Judy's Bugs Bunny imitation.

Did he jump or is that just gravity in R82’s pic???

I meant R182’s pic

I’m Barbra, lusting after Ryan both in and out of character... and succeeding in bedding him both in and out of character as well!

Yes, Eunice.

Goddamn, R180. That is one of the sexiest things I have ever seen. I'd fuck all three of them.

I'm Cybill pissed that I wasn't in this film.

I’m Eunice’s rather fabulous, in their own way, clothes.

I’m the radio and windshield wipers.

I'm the taxi driver driving off, leaving Eunice in that terrible part of town.

I'm Joan Collins' book that said Ryan O'neal was her best lover in which Barbra said WTF he must have been holding out on me....

I’m the hotel lobby escalator.

I’m an effeminate heterosexual.

The porn version is " What's Up, Cock?"

I'm Eunice's identical wigs.

I'm the incredible sale on those identical bags which had so many of them in circulation at the same time.

I'm in charge of casting and I'm a genius. Does anyone who who I am?

I'm coming in!

I’m Frederick Laraby’s townhouse at 888 Russian Hill which is actually at 2018 California Street.

I'm just barely a strip mall right now, but in time I will grow to be the mall in Barbra's basement

I saw Pendleton naked as well in Doubles. I wish he had done it when he was younger and I wish it was Dullea who had done the frontal at the time.

I'm sorry I didn't go back to see the replacement cast. I'd have love to have see Robert Reed, whose character was I think the Tony Roberts one who at least shows his ass very prominently. Musical comedy performer Charles Repole took over for Pendleton, so I didn't hear any reports on his full-frontal scene other than being hairy. John Cullum I believe was covered by the scenery down below and don't think Ron Leibman showed anything (though you can his butt in the movie "Where's Poppa").

I might have seen Roberts' ass but I don't remember probably because it wouldn't have interested me. Unfortunately you only saw Dullea naked from the back sitting down which was disappointing.

I did see Reed while he was doing the show as he was walking up 8th Av smoking and looking very tired and haggard and basically like shit with that ugly perm. What a beautiful man he had been.

We are the WACs going to war. Howard may be a genius about rocks but he’s a terrible liar.

I'm the shitty, mono, gift shop radio, which would cost something like $200 in 2018 dollars.

I'm the souvenir Alcatraz rock Ryan taps on and that Babs tells him he's going to need an awfully large glass of water to get down.

I’m the cab driver who hates it when his coccyx is even touched.

I'm the guy flipping pizza who never sees it come down from presumably the ceiling.

R211 Make that his "igneous rocks."

bump

I'll give your bike back, R113...I'll give you a broken back.

I don't know about that r209. Nobody buys clock radios anymore and I think they are dirt cheap....

I'm early 70s pre-homeless infested San Francisco! Aren't you relishing in my small town/big town overcast beauty?

i'm poop. If this movie was filmed today everyone on set would be stepping over it. Barbra would not be amused....

I'm a patron trying to get in to see it at Radio City but can't because it's sold out having been beaten out by 6,000 shits who cut in line ahead of me.

I’m Hans, there is no Fritz.

I love the valet doors in the hotel that allow a hotel attendant to place your clothing in the door without entering your room.

I’m the relationship we were having while filming.

I’m Barbra’s long, shiny hair which looked fabulous on her.

I'm Hugh, starting to curse in some kind of Eastern European language after he has been revealed as a plagiarist and his grant has been taken away from him. The character is apparently based on John Simon (though Simon, a nasty critic, but skilled with words as weapons, I don't think was ever accused of plagiarism).

i'm made up gibberish that Hugh was speaking instead of a foreign language...

I’m John Cho’s lookalike who is an extra who delivers pizzas. Can’t be Cho because he was born in 1972. Hmmm . Maybe not. I’m starting to suspect John Cho is an Asian Dorian Gray.

It's on TCM again!

I'm the message from the hotel staff.

"Goodbye."

"Yes, Eunice".

Is / was Ryan cut or Uncut?

Watching it now. Ryan's so unbelievably hot in this it almost makes me forget what a total piece of shit he is.

I'm Kenneth Mars. I'm annoyingly hamming it up with a stupid accent like I did in every movie.

^ He wasn't like that in the film Desperate Characters.

Mars is kind of weird and hard to understand or even see that it's him in "Young Frankenstein".

The 1970s were such a relaxed and mellow time. This movie represents that mood well.

Everything is so hyper and fast-paced now. I wish we could go back.

Austin Pendleton played a real baddie in "Simon", which played before "What's Up, Doc?" on TCM last night. He got a memorable comeuppance. Boy, Alan Arkin was very cute when he was young! It was a fun film, but I guess it didn't do too well when it was released. Great cast, with Madeline Kahn (again in too short a role), Adolph Green, Max Wright, Wallace Shawn, and Janet Graubart (of the "Electric Company"). Did I mention Alan Arkin was really very, very cute when he was young -- and always such a wonderful actor!

I saw Austin Pendleton fully naked in "Doubles" on Broadway years later. I was thinking "Mr. Larrabee, what are you doing?"

Well, no size verificatia R236?

Kenneth Mars didn’t use an accent in THE LITTLE MERMAID

What the heck was up with Mars' performance in "Young Frankenstein"; besides all the stuff with his arm, what was he aiming for? There's a joke that even the people in that town can't understand him at one point, but really, it's hard to know what he was going for in that performance. Otherwise, I love that film.

R180s pic is interesting. Is it common for directors to give instructions on kissing? Did he have an ulterior motive?

“Miss Burns, what on earth are you doing in Mr Bannister’s bedroom? Have you no propriety?”——Barbara in a towel standing in the window of Howard’s hotel room while Eunice shrieks hysterically.

Apparently those curtains on fire got a bit out of hand on set, and Madeline Kahn's fear and anxiety at that point were partly an actuality based on what was happening. While Barbra is great in that film, you have to give her credit that she didn't, like Lucille Ball in "Mame" have Kahn fired or do anything to diminish her performance, though I believe she did say something to Bogdanovich to the effect that "that woman [Kahn] is stealing the picture!". Kahn gave a great debut performance indeed. Plus, Ryan O'Nea'sl hairy chest and armpits are, like Babs sings in the film "the top"!

O'Neal's

Arguably OP? You're much too kind. It's Babs ONLY good film work.

I’m Mabel Anderson’s hot pants suit!

Albertson

I'm the controversial Findelmeyer Proposition.

[quote]i'm poop. If this movie was filmed today everyone on set would be stepping over it. Barbra would not be amused....

What would she do, make them throw rose petals on the streets just like she does for her shitter at home?

I'm Randy Quaid, one of the guys at Mr. Larrabee's table at the banquet. DL still can't believe that both Austin Pendleton (on stage) and Randy (on film in "The Last Picture Show") have gone full-frontal, but the one we really want to see, Randy's brother Dennis Quaid hasn't!

I'm Howard Hawks and even I prefer this film to Bringing Up Baby...

I'm Austin P., and I'd have been happy to have been naked in the film if offered.

Yes, Eunice

It's the only movie Babs made that I like.

I'm the wine they're serving at table 8.

This was on tv today

[quote] What the heck was up with Mars' performance in "Young Frankenstein"; besides all the stuff with his arm, what was he aiming for? There's a joke that even the people in that town can't understand him at one point, but really, it's hard to know what he was going for in that performance.

It's a send-up of Lionel Atwill's bizarrely accented performance as Inspector Krogh (who also has an artificial hand) in "Son of Frankenstein" (1939), a reference which (believe it or not) many horror fans in 1974 recognized.

I'm the film's European version

"Vocal Reverberation Under Spinal Pressure. You know, VRUSP?"

I love this movie.

Barbra had one of the most beautiful chests in Hollywood back in the day.

I'm the top secret underwear in Judy's plaid bag.