Evans' voice was symphonic; she wrings whole sentences out of single words, she drawls and gurgles, whoops and splutters. She's a madness of grandeur and establishment poise.There's nothing like it anywhere in drama.
Its such a pity Oscar Wilde himself didn't live long enough to experience Dame Edith uttering his own famous oritory. He would have died with laughter - that's for sure....
@12classics39 - I hadn't thought of that before reading your comment, but now I TOTALLY agree!! :-D The actor looks not only shocked, but also like he's trying hard not to smile or laugh!! He's lucky he was able to get control of himself during that brief pause! LOL!!!
These words are like silk. She's old as hell -- She's a lady considerably advanced in years. Her words are just fabulous to listen to, like I'm being serenaded by poetry.
The joke is rather lost nowadays, but at the time, the London Chatham and Dover had one side of Victoria, (the Western, smaller side) and the other was the London, Brighton and South Coast. "The Chatham" was regarded as one of the worst of the Victorian railways, catering to those who desired especially cheap accommodation. "The Brighton Line" by contrast went for the luxury market, running Pullman trains by the time Earnest came out, the most luxurious restaurant cars, with an hour to get to Brighton in them. A time still considered good today. Thus Lady Bracknell reveals that she is so contemptuous that the fact it's the nicer side doesn't matter.
Every time my wife mentions the word "handbag", I always interject a la Lady Bracknell, "A haaaandbaaag?!" Edit: I've now got this video bookmarked to start exactly when it should. So now, if I'm at my machine when my wife says the fateful word, she gets it from the source itself.
Me having to watch this for class after just coming back from comiccon and its due at 11:59, now 10:59. My mind is like "wtf am i watching" Im suppose to write a response and I literally have no idea what im looking at here. Im so tired
Ms munday fierceness after after after up for days after after @ Ms munday fierceness after the after continue...on the next ...stay tuned...to be continued...part E...Handbag fierceness let you have it let HERE HARE HER HARE and is HE STRAIGHT? diversion version dingberry power activate Marcia Marcia looking scarry dreaming colours looking very scary she's hare she's hair she's hers hares and hears SO EAT IT!!!!!
Love how she turns "handbag" into a 6-syllable word.
Or "found" in a 4-syllable word. FA-OU-N-DD (5:00)
A 🖐🏽 BaAAaaaaGg’h
It's parodied in this British medical sitcom 😂 czcams.com/video/_9UnJp_bQa0/video.html
Imagine her destroying a Haiku
Exactly 😂😂😂😂
"Mr Worthing, rise, Sir, from this semi-recumbent posture!" - I'm having that as my new alarm!
It is MOST indecorous!
It's so worth it. I try to work in "semi-recumbent posture" every chance I get.
Evans' voice was symphonic; she wrings whole sentences out of single words, she drawls and gurgles, whoops and splutters. She's a madness of grandeur and establishment poise.There's nothing like it anywhere in drama.
Yeah thanks but I think we're all here for the handbag quote
If they would only bring back Heightened RP
No one does a handbag like Edith Evans.
Its such a pity Oscar Wilde himself didn't live long enough to experience Dame Edith uttering his own famous oritory.
He would have died with laughter - that's for sure....
I do not know HOW the poor man stifled a howl of laughter.
5:34
Hero
Thanks!
A Partridge amongst the pigeons
thank you!
god bless
I love his pause before continuing after she says “a handbag?” as if not even he can believe the sound that just came out of her mouth. LOL!
@12classics39 - I hadn't thought of that before reading your comment, but now I TOTALLY agree!! :-D The actor looks not only shocked, but also like he's trying hard not to smile or laugh!! He's lucky he was able to get control of himself during that brief pause! LOL!!!
I don’t know what I was expecting to be the context of “a haAnDbAaAg??” but it wasn’t this
5:34 The most emotionally riveting part of the scene.
I came for the handbag and stay for the story
Came here for the handbag. But damn, Gwendolin's deep voice saying "Mama" is so funny to me.
I was found...
Lady Bracknell: *F O o o O u U N n d D d??*
No, forgive me, Lady Bracknell. Found.
Oscar must have known Edith would be born
Fabulous. Thank god this was filmed. Dame Edith was spectacular and unique.
For me Edith Evans IS Lady Bracknell.
She speaks "tonal" English when she says "handbag", that's almost what all the syllables in the 3rd tone sound in Chinese.
Sheer perfection. Edith Evans owns it all.
These words are like silk.
She's old as hell -- She's a lady considerably advanced in years.
Her words are just fabulous to listen to, like I'm being serenaded by poetry.
The suspenseful music coming after "The line is immaterial!" is fantastic.
Go to 5:30 put the speed down to 0.25 an sit back and enjoy.
Hero
Oh my god the rate she changes the ouch if her voice lol
this will be lurking in my head when I go to sleep
On 2x speed she says it as any normal person would say it.
@@92jwiener LMAO...You're so right!!!!!!!!!!!
5:00 How to turn a one syllable word into a 5 syllable word.
😂😂
fou-oh-oUUUnd??!
Perambulator, a word that should be used more often.
Came for the meme, stayed for the whole clip. Poor man got found in a black handbagghghghg
What a performance! I'm still laughing half an hour after...
"The line is immaterial!"
Lady Bracknell - Influence lost.
The joke is rather lost nowadays, but at the time, the London Chatham and Dover had one side of Victoria, (the Western, smaller side) and the other was the London, Brighton and South Coast. "The Chatham" was regarded as one of the worst of the Victorian railways, catering to those who desired especially cheap accommodation. "The Brighton Line" by contrast went for the luxury market, running Pullman trains by the time Earnest came out, the most luxurious restaurant cars, with an hour to get to Brighton in them. A time still considered good today. Thus Lady Bracknell reveals that she is so contemptuous that the fact it's the nicer side doesn't matter.
5:33 for those looking
This one is by far the best!!!! Version/ rendition
A haaand-baaaag?!
If we couldn't have film of Edith Evans' Millamant or Mrs Malaprop, her Lady Bracknell is a decent consolation prize
Now that's what I call a mother in law interrogation lol
5:33 you might be here for this
Every time my wife mentions the word "handbag", I always interject a la Lady Bracknell, "A haaaandbaaag?!"
Edit: I've now got this video bookmarked to start exactly when it should. So now, if I'm at my machine when my wife says the fateful word, she gets it from the source itself.
Yep - snf but nobody ever came near her on this on - nooooobody!
A hAaaAaAnD bAaAag*
And I bet she loves it!
A man of culture, i see 👏👏👏
“I’ve got the video bookmarked”
A boooookMAAAAAAAAARK?
"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortunte, to lose both looks like carelessness"
The importance of being a handbag
Inimitable Dame Edith Evans 🤣😂🤣😂
Even though it's over the top, there are some valid points!
I love how gwendolin goes like "not quite fInIShEd yET"
This must be the voice of God to Moses during the Ten Commandments handover.
What a hoot! I didn't even know about her until Tea with the Dames. How Bloomsbury can you get!
“ This place has gone Orf Terribly”
This scene feels like an 1800s Dutch cigarette ad come to life
The play dates from 1895.
Fortunately in England at any rate education has produced no effect whatsover.
It’s at 5:33 if you want to find it quickly!
If you set it at x2 speed, she speaks in a normal person speed lol
Wow it really works 😂
I love you Edith!!
It gets trippy if you slow the handbag down to x0.25.
Glorious!!!!
Me having to watch this for class after just coming back from comiccon and its due at 11:59, now 10:59. My mind is like "wtf am i watching" Im suppose to write a response and I literally have no idea what im looking at here. Im so tired
it made it more funnier now that i know the full context of the meme
Legendary
All I can imagine is Mycroft Holmes being Lady Bracknell
Yes. Mark would look "dishy" dress like that
7:37: The "good morning" sick burn. There has only ever been one.
5:33 "a haaaaandbaaag?"
Sir Michael Redgrave - incomparable ... The Dead of Night.
My favorite performance of his.
Love this film especially Margaret Rutherford as miss Prism
Thank you
How the guy didn't crack at that moment lol.
I have to watch the movie now.
5:34 Is what you're looking for.
Lets be honest, we all came here for 5:33
She reminds me of a white Aunt Esther!! (From Sanford & Son)
A haa (the entire set of lyrics to the song Stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin) aandbag?!
So...... does she like him or not? I can't tell if she was intrigued by his story after "a handbaaaaaag?" or if she remained disgusted.
She absolutely does not
Do watch the whole play, it's absolute genius. Full of witty dialogues like this and a very over-the-top plot.
I love The Importance of Being Earnest, but I’m not sure why they cast Sir Michael Redgrave as Jack. He was much too old for the part.
If it's an actor as brilliant as Sir Michael, it's fine by me.
I love 💕 you J and all handbags you bought for me in 1997
That's my mom like for real
Anyone else came here after watching green wing when sue says "hhhhandggg baag!"
The late great Victoria Wood and the brilliant sitcom dinner ladies brought me here 😃😃
Haaaand Baaaag? She's adorable
Am I the only one wondering how Mycroft would sound as Lady Bracknell?
if by Mycroft you mean Mark Gatiss, he would be spectacular.....
Fierce that one
A bug-out HAAAANNDDDDBAAAG?!!
6:18
fancy.
As if he had any choice in being an orphan 💀
Really just left the cursor on the UI huh
5:31😂
5:30 A handbag??
😆 Armer Kerl. Gut , dass diese Zeiten vorbei sind.
Überhaupt nicht gut!
fou-oh-oUUUnd??!
5:39 5:44
5:48
5:59
No
Classic eat it record in summer school highjinks dramarama 1984?
Can you imagine the Queen of England meeting Prince Harry's handbag lol!!
Gwendolyn is so beautiful
Ah! The French Revolution; a time of regular handbag births…
Wubby7
Gwendalines dress, absolutely gorgoes,.. good version but preferred the 1990 version
czcams.com/video/oyuoUwxCLMs/video.html
in case you missed it
what an odd way to speak. sounds like that one guy from the life of brian
I eat hair- Milo oblong
Is she drunk?
No, just frightfully British!
Jesus was this written by Quentin Tarantino?
What? How dare you?
Ms munday fierceness after after after up for days after after @ Ms munday fierceness after the after continue...on the next ...stay tuned...to be continued...part E...Handbag fierceness let you have it let HERE HARE HER HARE and is HE STRAIGHT? diversion version dingberry power activate Marcia Marcia looking scarry dreaming colours looking very scary she's hare she's hair she's hers hares and hears SO EAT IT!!!!!
I thaught she was a guy...
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