The importance of being Earnest Edith Evans 1952 the interrogation

Рет қаралды 101,004

Mick Field

Күн бұрын

Clip of 1952 version with Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell

Пікірлер: 150

@ladycplum 4 жыл бұрын

Love how she turns "handbag" into a 6-syllable word.

@diffigawesomedick6986 2 жыл бұрын

Or "found" in a 4-syllable word. FA-OU-N-DD (5:00)

@motivationalmentalityhub24 2 жыл бұрын

A 🖐🏽 BaAAaaaaGg’h

@cofpaddy 2 жыл бұрын

It's parodied in this British medical sitcom 😂 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZ-Foa2hxMi1kWQ.html

@FallahPladasque Жыл бұрын

Imagine her destroying a Haiku

@giancarlojacobs9982 8 ай бұрын

Exactly 😂😂😂😂

@elgee6202 2 жыл бұрын

"Mr Worthing, rise, Sir, from this semi-recumbent posture!" - I'm having that as my new alarm!

@YorkshireNutte 2 жыл бұрын

It is MOST indecorous!

@postmodernrecycler 2 жыл бұрын

It's so worth it. I try to work in "semi-recumbent posture" every chance I get.

@steerpike66 3 жыл бұрын

Evans' voice was symphonic; she wrings whole sentences out of single words, she drawls and gurgles, whoops and splutters. She's a madness of grandeur and establishment poise.There's nothing like it anywhere in drama.

@Conor.Somers1 Жыл бұрын

Yeah thanks but I think we're all here for the handbag quote

@jjeanniton 7 ай бұрын

If they would only bring back Heightened RP

@telemachus53 4 жыл бұрын

No one does a handbag like Edith Evans.

@corriepitt7630 2 жыл бұрын

Fabulous. Thank god this was filmed. Dame Edith was spectacular and unique.

@heyokaempath5802 2 жыл бұрын

I do not know HOW the poor man stifled a howl of laughter.

@trollingisasport Жыл бұрын

5:34 The most emotionally riveting part of the scene.

@Korvid_ 2 жыл бұрын

Came here for the handbag. But damn, Gwendolin's deep voice saying "Mama" is so funny to me.

@samue.8626 4 жыл бұрын

I came for the handbag and stay for the story

@12classics39 Жыл бұрын

I love his pause before continuing after she says “a handbag?” as if not even he can believe the sound that just came out of her mouth. LOL!

@scaryshari 9 ай бұрын

@12classics39 - I hadn't thought of that before reading your comment, but now I TOTALLY agree!! :-D The actor looks not only shocked, but also like he's trying hard not to smile or laugh!! He's lucky he was able to get control of himself during that brief pause! LOL!!!

@dancingraccoon6259 4 жыл бұрын

5:34

@luisitomejia8299 4 жыл бұрын

Hero

@Emp31 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@jabbra1837 4 жыл бұрын

A Partridge amongst the pigeons

@zhanebright 3 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@Max-vr2po 3 жыл бұрын

god bless

@MySteaming 5 ай бұрын

Its such a pity Oscar Wilde himself didn't live long enough to experience Dame Edith uttering his own famous oritory. He would have died with laughter - that's for sure....

@YouHaveReachedBob 7 ай бұрын

The suspenseful music coming after "The line is immaterial!" is fantastic.

@lindenbug 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know what I was expecting to be the context of “a haAnDbAaAg??” but it wasn’t this

@Starkiller5121 Жыл бұрын

These words are like silk. She's old as hell -- She's a lady considerably advanced in years. Her words are just fabulous to listen to, like I'm being serenaded by poetry.

@92jwiener 3 жыл бұрын

I was found... Lady Bracknell: *F O o o O u U N n d D d??* No, forgive me, Lady Bracknell. Found.

@telemachus53 4 жыл бұрын

Go to 5:30 put the speed down to 0.25 an sit back and enjoy.

@ionescubogdan6899 4 жыл бұрын

Hero

@Draykez 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god the rate she changes the ouch if her voice lol

@xAutumnPlayzx 3 жыл бұрын

this will be lurking in my head when I go to sleep

@92jwiener 3 жыл бұрын

On 2x speed she says it as any normal person would say it.

@adrian993 3 жыл бұрын

@@92jwiener LMAO...You're so right!!!!!!!!!!!

@apricotcookie4850 3 жыл бұрын

Sheer perfection. Edith Evans owns it all.

@elizabethgibson5116 4 жыл бұрын

Now that's what I call a mother in law interrogation lol

@howardstrauss5337 10 ай бұрын

Oscar must have known Edith would be born

@saidtheactress 3 жыл бұрын

For me Edith Evans IS Lady Bracknell.

@bazcar22 4 жыл бұрын

Perambulator, a word that should be used more often.

@Trobinson97 4 жыл бұрын

5:00 How to turn a one syllable word into a 5 syllable word.

@neliaferreira9983 Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@thebestspork 6 ай бұрын

fou-oh-oUUUnd??!

@stephenjones1380 4 жыл бұрын

Every time my wife mentions the word "handbag", I always interject a la Lady Bracknell, "A haaaandbaaag?!" Edit: I've now got this video bookmarked to start exactly when it should. So now, if I'm at my machine when my wife says the fateful word, she gets it from the source itself.

@mickfield1503 3 жыл бұрын

Yep - snf but nobody ever came near her on this on - nooooobody!

@noone-io4yj 3 жыл бұрын

A hAaaAaAnD bAaAag*

@isamcc1831 3 жыл бұрын

And I bet she loves it!

@tarzzamz2067 2 жыл бұрын

A man of culture, i see 👏👏👏

@That_Random_Bloke Жыл бұрын

“I’ve got the video bookmarked” A boooookMAAAAAAAAARK?

@valeria-militiamessalina5672 2 жыл бұрын

She speaks "tonal" English when she says "handbag", that's almost what all the syllables in the 3rd tone sound in Chinese.

@Davegvg3576 2 жыл бұрын

What a performance! I'm still laughing half an hour after...

@YesiamNovas 4 жыл бұрын

"The line is immaterial!" Lady Bracknell - Influence lost.

@SmudgeThomas 3 жыл бұрын

The joke is rather lost nowadays, but at the time, the London Chatham and Dover had one side of Victoria, (the Western, smaller side) and the other was the London, Brighton and South Coast. "The Chatham" was regarded as one of the worst of the Victorian railways, catering to those who desired especially cheap accommodation. "The Brighton Line" by contrast went for the luxury market, running Pullman trains by the time Earnest came out, the most luxurious restaurant cars, with an hour to get to Brighton in them. A time still considered good today. Thus Lady Bracknell reveals that she is so contemptuous that the fact it's the nicer side doesn't matter.

@patsakornpariyapranee9181 Жыл бұрын

Came for the meme, stayed for the whole clip. Poor man got found in a black handbagghghghg

@earlwest3502 9 ай бұрын

This one is by far the best!!!! Version/ rendition

@pondwater 3 жыл бұрын

I love how gwendolin goes like "not quite fInIShEd yET"

@xx6aesthetic9xx47 3 жыл бұрын

5:33 for those looking

@jasonhurd4379 2 жыл бұрын

If we couldn't have film of Edith Evans' Millamant or Mrs Malaprop, her Lady Bracknell is a decent consolation prize

@Studentofgosset Ай бұрын

"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortunte, to lose both looks like carelessness"

@C-4U 3 жыл бұрын

Inimitable Dame Edith Evans 🤣😂🤣😂

@davidkasdan702 4 жыл бұрын

What a hoot! I didn't even know about her until Tea with the Dames. How Bloomsbury can you get!

@josbouma7924 2 жыл бұрын

Even though it's over the top, there are some valid points!

@thecitizenoftheinternet1077 3 жыл бұрын

The importance of being a handbag

@UnfamiliarPlace 4 жыл бұрын

A haaand-baaaag?!

@waowao9852 2 жыл бұрын

5:33 you might be here for this

@lordrobert12 2 жыл бұрын

I love you Edith!!

@wadebaker2910 3 жыл бұрын

This scene feels like an 1800s Dutch cigarette ad come to life

@alicemilne1444 Жыл бұрын

The play dates from 1895.

@drowningvlogs1682 2 жыл бұрын

it made it more funnier now that i know the full context of the meme

@NPA1001 3 жыл бұрын

“ This place has gone Orf Terribly”

@apsetiadi Жыл бұрын

This must be the voice of God to Moses during the Ten Commandments handover.

@EmanDeMoan 3 жыл бұрын

If you set it at x2 speed, she speaks in a normal person speed lol

@athannotoudas1032 2 жыл бұрын

Wow it really works 😂

@ReaganWolfie Жыл бұрын

Me having to watch this for class after just coming back from comiccon and its due at 11:59, now 10:59. My mind is like "wtf am i watching" Im suppose to write a response and I literally have no idea what im looking at here. Im so tired

@DavidJohnson-yq4nz 3 жыл бұрын

Legendary

@Knappa22 2 жыл бұрын

It’s at 5:33 if you want to find it quickly!

@sedekiman 4 жыл бұрын

Glorious!!!!

@itsmemaario 6 ай бұрын

It gets trippy if you slow the handbag down to x0.25.

@orelas167 3 жыл бұрын

7:37: The "good morning" sick burn. There has only ever been one.

@mysticmouse7261 Жыл бұрын

Fortunately in England at any rate education has produced no effect whatsover.

@sahildiwan4627 3 жыл бұрын

All I can imagine is Mycroft Holmes being Lady Bracknell

@luciadilazzaro2285 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Mark would look "dishy" dress like that

@peterglover5611 Жыл бұрын

Love this film especially Margaret Rutherford as miss Prism

@kyawkyawwin1 3 жыл бұрын

Sir Michael Redgrave - incomparable ... The Dead of Night.

@kennethwayne6857 Жыл бұрын

My favorite performance of his.

@ded5630 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@cy7357i 2 жыл бұрын

I have to watch the movie now.

@420thlegioner8 Ай бұрын

How the guy didn't crack at that moment lol.

@MechaAkuma Жыл бұрын

5:33 "a haaaaandbaaag?"

@irishandproud7119 11 ай бұрын

Lets be honest, we all came here for 5:33

@TheVOYD16 3 жыл бұрын

So...... does she like him or not? I can't tell if she was intrigued by his story after "a handbaaaaaag?" or if she remained disgusted.

@davidthornton5454 3 жыл бұрын

She absolutely does not

@naly202 3 жыл бұрын

Do watch the whole play, it's absolute genius. Full of witty dialogues like this and a very over-the-top plot.

@lostmarimo Жыл бұрын

A haa (the entire set of lyrics to the song Stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin) aandbag?!

@wario7393 Жыл бұрын

5:34 Is what you're looking for.

@svire3370 4 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one wondering how Mycroft would sound as Lady Bracknell?

@thymepomagranite3575 3 жыл бұрын

if by Mycroft you mean Mark Gatiss, he would be spectacular.....

@lordrobert12 2 жыл бұрын

She reminds me of a white Aunt Esther!! (From Sanford & Son)

@harrysturgeon3103 2 жыл бұрын

I love 💕 you J and all handbags you bought for me in 1997

@harrysturgeon3103 2 жыл бұрын

That's my mom like for real

@craigwolfe249 11 ай бұрын

Anyone else came here after watching green wing when sue says "hhhhandggg baag!"

@ianfergalfarrar 4 жыл бұрын

The late great Victoria Wood and the brilliant sitcom dinner ladies brought me here 😃😃

@CanadianMonarchist Жыл бұрын

I love The Importance of Being Earnest, but I’m not sure why they cast Sir Michael Redgrave as Jack. He was much too old for the part.

@kennethwayne6857 Жыл бұрын

If it's an actor as brilliant as Sir Michael, it's fine by me.

@bazcar22 4 жыл бұрын

Haaaand Baaaag? She's adorable

@harrysturgeon3103 2 жыл бұрын

Fierce that one

@harrysturgeon3103 2 жыл бұрын

A bug-out HAAAANNDDDDBAAAG?!!

@7ofspades7 Жыл бұрын

Really just left the cursor on the UI huh

@BippyChunchun Жыл бұрын

As if he had any choice in being an orphan 💀

@OlviMasta77 Жыл бұрын

5:30 A handbag??

@skdog5153 Жыл бұрын

5:31😂

@misswunderlich9345 4 жыл бұрын

😆 Armer Kerl. Gut , dass diese Zeiten vorbei sind.

@robertoorsi3203 4 жыл бұрын

Überhaupt nicht gut!

@noctss 3 жыл бұрын

fancy.

@aikomaliako 10 ай бұрын

6:18

@thebestspork 6 ай бұрын

fou-oh-oUUUnd??!

@ded5630 4 жыл бұрын

5:39 5:44

@ded5630 4 жыл бұрын

5:48

@ded5630 4 жыл бұрын

5:59

@Emp31 4 жыл бұрын

@harrysturgeon3103 2 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine the Queen of England meeting Prince Harry's handbag lol!!

@harrysturgeon3103 2 жыл бұрын

Classic eat it record in summer school highjinks dramarama 1984?

@melancholy.xander 2 жыл бұрын

Gwendolyn is so beautiful

@neliaferreira9983 Жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pd-lorio3amwfac.html in case you missed it

@dogesyndrome5205 8 ай бұрын

Wubby7

@Salamander6969 4 ай бұрын

Ah! The French Revolution; a time of regular handbag births…

@lostmarimo Жыл бұрын

what an odd way to speak. sounds like that one guy from the life of brian

@dirge187 3 жыл бұрын

Jesus was this written by Quentin Tarantino?

@luciadilazzaro2285 3 жыл бұрын

What? How dare you?

@paullosasso7147 4 жыл бұрын

Is she drunk?

@seaglass22 4 жыл бұрын

No, just frightfully British!

@harrysturgeon3103 2 жыл бұрын

I eat hair- Milo oblong

@marjorieramshaw9211 3 жыл бұрын

Gwendalines dress, absolutely gorgoes,.. good version but preferred the 1990 version

@harrysturgeon3103 2 жыл бұрын

Ms munday fierceness after after after up for days after after @ Ms munday fierceness after the after continue...on the next ...stay tuned...to be continued...part E...Handbag fierceness let you have it let HERE HARE HER HARE and is HE STRAIGHT? diversion version dingberry power activate Marcia Marcia looking scarry dreaming colours looking very scary she's hare she's hair she's hers hares and hears SO EAT IT!!!!!