What can I say? I’ll restrain myself and just remark that this was taken on the set of the movie, “Can Can” in 1959. The cake is in celebration of Maurice Chevalier’s seventy-first birthday.
Shirley Maclaine celebrates Maurice Chevalier’s birthday with Louis Jordan (1959)
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Louis Jourdan is sooooooooooooo gorgeous 😀
I have to check out one of your pics again, but I see a marked resemblance!
Yep, totally self-interest/self-promotional comment 😀 He’s got much nicer and bigger eyes, though. Bastard!
I love Maurice Chevalier circa early 1930s especially. Love me Tonight with Jeanette McDonald is one of my all time favorite movies!
I remember that one! I think I saw it first staying up very late (on the sly) on TV. He’s a tailor who poses as a prince because he’s fallen in love with a princess? I’ll have to watch it again 🙂
that’s the one!
Every little breeze seems to whisper Vickie…. Sank Heaven for leetel girls.
I know it’s a cliche — but he always seems to be leering… Heavens!
No more so than in “A New Kind Of Love’ with Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman… silly movie but I LOVE it.
Lanier beat me to it months ago but I always found Chevalier creepy singing Thank Heaven For Little Girls. In fact I amuse myself with an exaggerated version of his already pervy performance : “s’ank ‘eaven for leetle gehls becozz zey get Bee-GER ev’ryyy DEYYY…”, indeed! As for the leering – he’s French dear… Bwahahaha! JOKING, Heather from Arles if you read this 😉 There are many more romantic frenchmen than englishmen…probably. Ha.
There are two old wolves in this picture — and they’re so blatant I had to post it 😉
Two blatant “old wolves”, I like it! Naughty boys or dirty old devils?! 😉 I love your use of the phrase “wolves”, it’s so *apt*. I, myself, have *never* been wolvish, scout’s honour! (Disclaimer: George may never have been a scout. Bwahahaha!)
Dearest V
All together now…. “Thank heaven for little girls… they grow up in the most delightful way!”…
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
“Those little eyes so helpless and appealing
One day will flash and send you crashing thru the ceiling”…
From one of another oddly disturbing film starring Louis Jourdan and M. Chevalier, “Gigi”!
Dearest V
Disturbing indeed…. but then when you consider the source material it was never going to be anything else.
“Ah yes I remember it well….”.
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
My favorite books of Colette’s were her memoirs “In My Mother’s House” and “Sido” — the novels I need to try again.
Dearest V
It has been years since I read them in French at university, but I’m sure it was short stories I liked best.
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
Curious. I got Colette’s Collected Stories out from the library last week but haven’t managed to read any. Mr Dandy’s recommendation suggests I should try…
Oh, that *Maurice*… Randy, creepy old goat! Gigi, a film I’ve always found – a song or two apart – deeply resistible.
I love M.C. – he always makes me smile. Can’t stand to listen to Jeannette MacDonald sing, though, so I have to do selective listening or use the volume control with certain films. Did you know he was on the front lines in WWI, wounded by shrapnel, and spent two years as a prisoner of war in Germany? There’s a lot more to him than his accent!