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Hello there! Oh wow do I have a fun clip for you in this week's bonus video. An interview with Angela Lansbury where she reveals the director who cast her because he had a THING for pretty actress' feet. Would you believe it was Cecil B. DeMille??? I guess now we know why he made all those sandal pictures. Also this week -- another reading from the works of Joan Crawford, and Angela performing a goofy song at the Oscars with Joan Collins and Dana Wynter. And then Angela performing a goofy dance with Barbara Walters. Plus a little peek at my bookshelves and at the timeline I put together to assist with my recent Lansbury video. And a call for folks to send me their favorite Leslie Jordan videos!

Backup link if the embed isn't working: https://vimeo.com/mattbaume/angelabonus2 

Here's Joan Crawford reading her book: https://youtu.be/RXDPQmLit8w 

Here's the 1958 Oscars song: https://youtu.be/ta-0orf0j7g 

And the 1959 song with Angela et al: https://youtu.be/CKJdPqOMGkA 


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Bonus Video! Angela Lansbury's Foot Fetishist, Revealed!

Oh wow do I have a fun clip for you in this week's bonus video. An interview with Angela Lansbury where she reveals the director who cast her because he had...

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Anonymous

Hi Matt, My compliments for your interesting videos, I recently joined Patron, and I am working my way through all bonus videos. Nice that you mentioned Kenneth Williams. Although English is not my native language, I am very fascinated by this man and his works. You compared him to Stephen Fry. Stephen actually made one of his early appearances on television in a show called "Wogan" for which Kenneth was the guest host for 3 nights (Terry Wogan being the original host) in April 1986. Here is a YouTube clip of this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8oyS_LS920. (I don't know what to make of the dynamics between these two men, what do you think?) Another entertainer associated with Kenneth Williams is Stanley Baxter, they first met during post WW2 days in the army. Stanley Baxter is "worldfamous" in Great Britain for his elaborate TV shows in the 70s and 80s - with lot of drag. He is 96 years now, and came out in 2020 as gay. Here is his spoof on Towering Inferno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhff2VuEUNE. Great legs!

Pete-UK

Hi Matt - glad you have discovered Kenneth! He was a prolific letter writer and I wrote to him myself when he was due to do the Wogan show and he promptly replied! I have a about 5 letters (just notes really often only a couple of sentences) in reply to me and he also sent me one of his books! Karin, i don't think being interviewer really suited him - he was much better as a guest - in fact an interviewer's dream guest as could rattle off a recolection or story - as interviewer he was a bit stiff! Pete x

mattbaume

Oh wow that's so wonderful! Glad to hear he was such an enthusiastic letter-writer. And thank you for the links Karin, I'd never seen Stanley Baxter before so I'll definitely go back and watch more!

Anonymous

Rosalind Russell played Mame in the 1958 movie version of the play Auntie Mame and originated the role on Broadway. (She got nominated for an Oscar and a Tony respectively but didn't win either one). Maybe the read is in line with the idea of "you've done the role so much that even your mother could do it"? Not that great of a read either way.

Trevor

For those on iPads: https://vimeo.com/767687380/6b7e308ba4 I remember the Barbara Walters interview with Angela. It was a thing that Walters would ask questions no other interviewer would ask for her ABC specials, and she really leaned into it and tried to get people to cry. Personally, I thought that she and Larry King were overrated as interviewers. If you look at the clip from The View that you showed, it seems like Angela kind of brushes over her greeting with Barbara and doesn't really look at her. Angela was a true pro but I don't think she ever forgot a slight.

TBoneSF

In your timeline, you left out Angela's appearance in Mary Poppins Returns. She had her own song, and it was a nice parallel to the Bird Woman in the original. Plus Angela passing the last balloon to Emily Blunt is sort of a symbolic passing the torch. In the original, the Bird Woman was played by Oscar winner Jane Darwell in her final film role, and Walt made sure to treat her like Hollywood royalty during the shoot even though her glory days had long passed.

Anonymous

I love how casually she dropped the foot fetish in that interview. 🤣

Anonymous

And I was thinking it was because it was such a great role, even her *mother* would have been nominated.

Anonymous

I am almost certain Joan Crawford meant a salon-level stand dryer. Hand held dryers were very uncommon even in the '70s. Would love to see you a bit on Leslie Jordan in Sordid Lives. He was a very good dramatic artist.

Anonymous

I love how more clips keep being added on to the end, it's getting just like your crowded livestream screen!😅

Anonymous

Hi Matt could you add the link the embedded video still doesn’t work for me

mattbaume

Argh, sorry about that! I added the link -- and if you can, let me know if you're getting an error message so I can keep troubleshooting with Patreon/Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/mattbaume/angelabonus2

mattbaume

Oh wow just imagine demanding one of those for a hotel room. Then again maybe they were more common then than they were today?

Anonymous

Much. I mean, regular people didn't have them in their *homes*.... Any hotel she stayed at probably had an on-site salon, though, and could take one from there, I guess. Riders are sometime quite ludicrous.

Justin

I must shout out Southern Baptist Sissies, Leslie Jordan had a very touching performance that I loved. Here's a clip I found from his IG after he'd passed: https://www.instagram.com/p/CkYnPgGgZ6b/

Anonymous

I agree with Grace. In my house growing up in the early 70's, my mother had a for-the-home bonnet-style hair dryer, and she after styling my grandmothers' hair, she would dry both my grandmothers' updo hairstyles with that thing. It wasn't until the latter part of the 70's that we got a gun-style blow dryer like we know today, and even then, for my grandmothers, she continued to use the kind they used to stick their heads under, drying their hairdos slowly while reading a magazine.

Anonymous

My mother had one of those as well. I remember being fascinated by the “bonnet” and the case for it as a young boy. LOL