Mary Pickford: “What do you mean this doesn’t look realistic?”
Douglas Fairbanks: “We’re supposed to be looking like the typical American family so the people in Kansas will go see our movies. How does any of this say any of that?”
Mary: “Well, we’re in a boat. People go boating.”
Douglas: “Not in their church clothes. And they don’t go boating in what is obviously a big-ass swimming pool. And they don’t say words like ‘boating’. Rich people say that.”
Mary: “It looks like a river. They won’t know the difference.”
Douglas: “What river has ladders on the sides? Wait, have you ever even been to a river?”
Mary: “Of course not. There’s no on there to serve you cocktails.”
Douglas: “And do you think they are not going to notice that mansion right over there? What common person lives in a house that big?”
Mary: “Lots of people. Orphans. Nuns. Wealthy criminals in minimum-security prisons.”
Douglas: “This just doesn’t sit right with me. We should be doing what poor people do, to show that we understand them and we don’t feel like we’re above them socially.”
Mary: “Well, I suppose you’re right. Should I ring for one of the maids and ask her how to look poor?”
Photographer: “Okay, folks, time for some action shots. Can you maybe actually row the boat?”
Mary: “Are you insane?”
Douglas: “Could we call in the stunt doubles?”
Categories: Past Imperfect
Bonnywood Manor 
Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.
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There’s not much of anything in Kansas anymore, now that the Republicans have outlawed basically everything… 😉
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LOL – the ladder on the side was the dead giveaway…too funny!
I’ve been in many a boat, and none were in a swimming-pool, ROFL!
XD
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And Douglas is clutching the side of the river pool like he’s never been in a canoe in his entire life. Or maybe he’s just afraid of Mary’s hat… 😉
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Hahahahaha – I don’t blame him! Some hats are frightful, to be sure…
XD
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I am one of those people who simply doesn’t look good in a hat of any kind, so I instinctively distrust people who can plop something on their heads and effortlessly look dashing… 😉
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LOL – ah, it’s all in the hat…you can’t just plop any old thing on the head and expect it to work, just like those “skinny jeans” are only for anorectic 12-year-olds!
XD
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Completely agree, although there’s a small, bitter part of me that wishes I could finally find a hat that didn’t make me look like a serial killer, just so I can irritate those snobby people who took one look at me sporting an all-advised hat and said “Don’t ever do that again, for the sake of the planet…” 😉
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ROFLMAO!
Hey, I’ve been known to sport a black-and-red “Cat in the Hat” style, from time to time – not sure if I look like a serial killer, or one of the Droogs from “A Clockwork Orange!”
XD
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Ah, “A Clockwork Orange”… a movie (and book) that foretold more than we thought it possibly could at the time…
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