Friday
Apr042014
"My dear...
Friday, April 4, 2014 at 12:30PM ...is there anything you can't do?
Well, I'm not sure I'll make a very good nun.
If you have any problems, I'll be happy to help you...
Great Moments in Screen Bitchery #235, Eleanor Parker as the Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965)
Reader Comments (10)
So many wonderful lines from Eleanor Parker. That's some serious acting there since you know she's the "bad guy" but she looks so wonderful and hides all of her bitchiness behind such proper etiquette. And really, wouldn't you bring out all your charms/weapons if Christopher Plummer was the prize? I know I would!
Dames and divas please take note: THAT is how you deliver an exit line.
LOVE the way she delivers this line.
I think it was ingenious that the filmmakers made Frau Schroeder a baroness for the film. This is most definitely baroness attitude. And as soon as we hear her title, we know we're in for some diva-liciousness.
I want a movie about Eleanor Parker's Baroness Schraeder. I have ever since the first time I saw The Sound of Music. She's just so great! I imagine the movie would be some fabulous travelogue where she jaunts around Europe wearing couture while romancing a different man in every country - Rossano Brazzi in Italy, Alain Delon in France, etc. etc. - and poo-poohing any children that cross her path. Somewhere close to the end she gets really drunk and wants to cable Georg about how she never should have left him with that "nun" but finds the place closed. She wakes up the next morning and finds whatever city she's in occupied by Nazi officers, falls in love with and marries one of them, and then he gets killed in the war and she takes the train back home - in a last sequence that recalls the end of Nights of Cabiria somehow, with her smiling through her pretty, pretty tears.
That, or she becomes the Dickie Greenleaf character in some sort of female version of The Talented Mr. Ripley.
And her other great line: "Goodbye Maria, I'm sure you'll make a very fine nun" LOVE!
Oh so many great quotes. I say this occasionally when I'm overwhelmed with other people's kids: "Darling, haven't you ever heard of a delightful little thing called boarding school?"
@denny- now I really want to see your Baroness movie.
OMG The Sound of Music. My absolute most favorite of all time. I die.
She' so enriches the movie. happy to see this one in the series!