Camp -- I love it!

I liked the line where Frank Morgan tells Walter Pidgeon "Don't irritate him".
"Whaddya think I am, a rash?".

That makes 3 of us. The politically correct side of me says it's just not right for her to be playing a native woman, but the heterosexual side of me thinks she looks smoking hot with her exposed midrift and black face make-up. Guess which side is winning?

I can't believe there aren't more posts about this film. If it's not a cult classic, it should be. Thank you TCM.

"Push the button, Max!"

I'm watching it right now for the first time since I saw it on the early show when I was in grade school. Of course now I notice things, I didn't notice back then and its not the lack of dialing for dollars or Packerland Ford ads. Rather its things like how Hedy fills out that two piece she's wearing even if her bellybutton is missing in action. It must have been one of those Hays Office things.

Tondalayo could make me tiffin several time a day. I wouldn't have any problems becoming acclimatized.

All that cocoa butter light (or dark) Egyptian makeup may be politically incorrect, but keep in mind "Tondelayo is no native"; not just for Mr. Langford, but the nice motion picture code folks. For the movie her background was changed to Egyptian and Arab to get it approved. Now if they could have only been able to do the movie with Nina Mae Mckinney. Of course if they had the Hays office would have made the studio recycle the film negative into hundreds of thousands o celluloid guitar pics so I guess they had to use Hedy Lamar. Still it was the best use of cocoa butter ever.


People are just getting dumber, but more opinionated-Ernestine (Silks) in "The Human Stain"