Billie Burke: Not for Mating
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- One reason to watch classic film comedy is to note how punchlines age. This scene is from "Dinner at Eight" (1933) -- an American stage classic that became an American film classic. It features Billie Burke as Millicent Jordan whose dinner party plans are falling apart. The punch line that shows its age is 1:55 into the scene, Millicent says of a young man seen on the beach: "He wore even less than the girls!" For someone who grew up in an age of bikinis, this is strange yet funny observation. But for someone hearing it in the 1930s, the joke is coherent, given the fuller bathing suits of both genders at that time. Meanwhile in the same scene, Hattie Loomis (Louise Closser Hale) has one punchline that time can't touch: "They're invited for dinner ... not for mating!" Based on George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's play with the screenplay by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz.
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That scene with her husband and daughter alone should have gotten her an Oscar.
i read that Billie Burke was born in 1884. She was 49 years old here! She acutally looked like in her early 30s in my opinion. Great Actress and really beautiful :)
She looks mid to upper 40's to me,…as I am, and I notice,… for someone who has taken good of themselves,… not doing 'bad things', or at least not much
Billie Burke played Glinda the good witch of the north.
She appeared in a magazine ad in 1930 claiming to be 40.
you've got to just love Billie Burke's voice and her acting....she was classic. I enjoyed this movie just because of her speaking.
As soon as i heard her voice i knew it was Glinda,the lady that came down in a big bubble
Yeah Billie Burke is one of favorite actresses and her voice is so beautiful especially her cute Accent
One of my favorite actresses. I love her in every role she plays. She brings that voice that puts a smile on my face, every time.
Indubidubly 🙂
I will NEVER not recognize the voice of Billie Burke! Brings back many happy childhood memories just hearing her.
I love this classic film. The great Jean Harlow is a riot. 🎬❤️🎬
"Shut up I tell you. Shut up!" Classic.
I wish someone had the clip where Corlotta Vance barges in on Billie Burke’s character, Millicent Jordan. The back and forth is a riot.
Billie Burke should have gotten 4 Oscars for that line! WOW! Luv IT!
LOLLL Billie Burke was hilarious in this, I had no idea she did comedic films!!
Yeah I agree I started laughing when she got angry
She did EVERYTHING, decades long career on stage & screen.
If you like Billie Burke doing comedy, then you simply must watch her in Topper Returns. She is fabulously funny!
“IIII’M the one who ought to be in bed, I’M the one who’s in trouble. You don’t know what trouble is, either of you!”
Ah Billie I love ya.
I absolutely love Billie Burke. Just an excellent actress. Stellar performance in this movie.
I love the look on the cook's face when the put the flags back in FRONT of the aspic! :)
I haven't had aspic since I was a kid. A big hunk of jellied tomato juice (with tabasco and savories) embedded with veggies on a big pile of lettuce with a glob of mayo. Actually quite delicious. It got me eating lots of veggies. It's all in the presentation. :-)
But not in the form of a British lion?
she's stunning
Spot on Classic film Billie Burke is the Best! Come back old Hollywood. 🎥 Xx
Yes Old Hollywood is still there ... on CZcams!
I guess Billie was more than Glinda, the Good Witch, from "The Wizard of Oz"!
And not even an Oscar nomination (OK, no supporting category in those days. Still..) If anyone did anything remotely this good nowadays they'd be a shoo-in for an Oscar. Bless her
The first time I saw this movie I knew to look for Jean Harlow's performance which was excellent. But my jaw dropped when I saw Billie Burke in this scene. The brilliance of the film's director bringing this scene to a cinematic sub climax was incredible. When Billie Burke's voice deepens from the baby doll mid-Atlantic accent to a throaty desperate self absorbed hostess, it made me realize what an incredible actress she was. The widow of Flo Zigfield was propped by Hollywood in sympathy but she really carried her weight in all she did. Training and sheer talent.
Decades long career entirely independent of Flo, she went back to work when his empire crashed.
Directed by the great George Cukor.
Nice music intro and ending.
Love this movie.
The scene with Milicent going off is great 😌
See this movie if you haven't - but if you haven't, don't continue reading (spoiler alert). Billie Burke's character is so self-centered in most of the movie which makes her turn-around at the end of the film so moving to me. She really does love her husband selflessly. Billie Burke is wonderful!
Such a sharp movie with so man great lines. I recommend it highly.
Lots of big names in this movie, but also some forgotten film stars like Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler.
Walter Van der Wahl Marie Dressler is forgotten? News to me.
@@edwardjames50 Oscar winners, both
...and Beery lives on in the Coens' Barton Fink. Wrestling pictures!
The reference to John Bunny was absolute history.
At 2:09 into the clip. Thanks. John Bunny: "the man who makes more than the president." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunny
Dinner at Eight! One of the greatest and I love Billie Burke, too. She was divine. Mrs. Florenz Ziegeld in private life and when he died broke she had to head for Hollywood. The rest is history. "Do you know what's happened to ME?... I'M the one who's in trouble!" I often feel that way myself.
love love Billie! this scene is the best!
wish i could find full movie online to stream... GRR!
Such a graceful beauty. I was born in the wrong era!
Me too!
A sentiment echoed by a great many of us!
They truly don't make them like this any more. Part of the reason is that that kind of dignified high society doesn't exist any more. The very subject matter of the movie is almost beyond most people's imagining.
Billie Burke can yell at me all she wants - she's so amusing
Billie Burke subtly stole this film!
I love this movie
They had much the same problem when ZaSu Pitts played the mother in "All Quiet On The Western Front". The audience at the previews giggled when they saw her as she was known for comedy parts. They quickly replaced her with Beryl Mercer. Easily done as she was only in one scene.
"See if you can get him first. Let nature take its course."
Oh, for the days when crab was seen as but a poor substitute for lobster.
Crab is better than lobster to me.
GLINDA, the good witch from"The Wizard of Oz"!!!
I've always wondered what that lion sculpted dish with the little decorative flags was, some kind of jello mold?
As Billie says, it's The Aspic.
Aspic is a dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatin made from a meat stock or consommé. Non-savory dishes, often made with commercial gelatin mixes without stock or consommé, are usually called jello salads in the United States or gelatin salads elsewhere.
When cooled, stock that is made from meat congeals because of the natural gelatin found in the meat. The stock can be clarified with egg whites, and then filled and flavored just before the aspic sets. Almost any type of food can be set into aspics. Most common are meat pieces, fruits, or vegetables. Aspics are usually served on cold plates so that the gel will not melt before being eaten. A meat jelly that includes cream is called a chaud-froid.
Almost any meat, poultry, or fish can be used to make gelatin. The aspic may need additional gelatin in order to set properly. Veal stock provides a great deal of gelatin; in making stock, veal is often included with other meat for that reason. Fish consommés usually have too little natural gelatin, so the fish stock may be double-cooked or supplemented. Since fish gelatin melts at a lower temperature than gelatins of other meats, fish aspic is more delicate and melts more readily in the mouth.
Vegetables and fish stocks need gelatin to maintain a molded shape.[1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspic
Love this piano music that plays at the beginning and end.
Born in 1884 my god
If there had been supporting Oscars in 1933, Billie Burke should have won, hands down, for her performance as Millicent Jordan. Sadly, though, it typed her for life as a twittering, dithering nincompoop. At a George Cukor film festival, the director was dismayed at a screening of his 1932 "A Bill of Divorcement," when the audience started to giggle as soon as they saw his dear friend Burke, thinking she would be playing another of her patented flibbertigibbits. They continued to laugh all the way through her performance, though there was nothing to laugh at.
Rafael Storm Agreed! We saw Bill of Divorcement at home without a crowd and it was refreshing to see Billie Burke without the dithers ...
One of the problems that plagued Billie during "A Bill of Divorcement" was that she had not been in front of the camera in a while and she was self conscious about her movements and acting capabilities during the entire filming of the movie and it showed. However, I think her performance was still spectacular in that movie. This was Hepburn's first movie as well and I am sure the director had his hands full with a new comer and the insecurities of Burke. But a must see movie nonetheless.
Bille was even more of a twittering dithering flibbertigibbet in the 1938 film "Everybody sing", which also starred Fanny Brice, Allen Jones, and Judy Garland.
that sounds like typecastphilia
1st World Problems galore! XD
“Free, white, and 45 (21).”
Had me laughing too!
1933, a year when most actors were professionals, not just characters, acting.
was beauty.
Louise Closser Hale died right after this movie was filmed. She died in July,1933 while shopping on a hot day. Died from heat stroke.
Yes she died in the monte sano hospital in los Angeles CA
u know what happened to me??haha
@ 3.03 sounds like the witch of the East. From the wizard of oz
I think you meant North. The "East" witch is killed without ever uttering a line
She’ll be 134 this year ..... life is not eternal
Maybe not, but to borrow from Norma Desmond, 'the stars are ageless' ...
Could anybody be so kind as to tell me where to find that wonderful piano intro ?
see next comment below.
Actually it's just canned piano bits from the iMovie soundtrack offerings for music. If you want good piano music, click on my video offerings and check out "Take Four ... or Five". It's mostly boggie woogie, but they're breaking in the new piano at Armando's in Martinez, Ca. That's our next project: "Quoting Roy Jeans". Thanks for your note.
Glinda super canastrona
👏👏👏👏❤️👏👏👏👏
Bille Burke was hot. If I was gay, she would be my idol.
3:30 and 4:53 She looks like she has _man hands_