My brothers and sisters recalled a movie they saw when they were little.
Tony Curtis, Zsa Zsa in a rocket and the electric train hooked up to the harp.
I hadn't a clue what they were referring to.
Then I saw Arrivedercci, Baby, with Curtis, Gabor, Lionel Jeffries, Nancy Kwan, Rosanna Schiaffono and the astonishing Anna Quayle.
Yes, the movie changes gears. What was it after? It begins with Curtis as bluebeard, loving and killing women, but it seemed to want to say he met his match in Schiaffono, and Kwan is a big question mark. Why was she there? Quayle is the first woman in Curtis' life, as she adopts him from the orphanage. Too funny.
It would be a big spoiler to tell what happened to Quayle, but it involves an electric train being hooked up to her harp while she is unhappy.
Quayle is funny throughout her scenes, from an early harp song, which gets a startled expression from Curtis, to her final moment.
In between, a drunken Quayle looks Curtis right in the face "and I am left ALL ALONE!" Quayle is perhaps better known as the equally sensational Baroness to Gert Kobe in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
Gabor's moment, if you can believe it, is just as funny.
"Nicky! Nicky! Dah-ling, my voice is all better now, dah-ling!" If you can manage to listen to what she is saying, that alone is a worthy chuckle or two.
Big spoiler: When she is locked in the rocket ship, she is pounding on the other side of the door. "Nicky, if you don't open this door, I'm never speaking to you again." I originally thought that was a promise, then I realized it was a threat.
" . . . . dah-ling . . . . dah-ling . . . . . dah-ling . . . . dah-ling . . . . ." The exploding croquet ball follwed by "sounds like we're in for a storm" always made me laugh too, and I do like the ending with Jeffries.
Tony Curtis, Zsa Zsa in a rocket and the electric train hooked up to the harp.
I hadn't a clue what they were referring to.
Then I saw Arrivedercci, Baby, with Curtis, Gabor, Lionel Jeffries, Nancy Kwan, Rosanna Schiaffono and the astonishing Anna Quayle.
Yes, the movie changes gears. What was it after? It begins with Curtis as bluebeard, loving and killing women, but it seemed to want to say he met his match in Schiaffono, and Kwan is a big question mark. Why was she there? Quayle is the first woman in Curtis' life, as she adopts him from the orphanage. Too funny.
It would be a big spoiler to tell what happened to Quayle, but it involves an electric train being hooked up to her harp while she is unhappy.
Quayle is funny throughout her scenes, from an early harp song, which gets a startled expression from Curtis, to her final moment.
In between, a drunken Quayle looks Curtis right in the face "and I am left ALL ALONE!" Quayle is perhaps better known as the equally sensational Baroness to Gert Kobe in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
Gabor's moment, if you can believe it, is just as funny.
"Nicky! Nicky! Dah-ling, my voice is all better now, dah-ling!" If you can manage to listen to what she is saying, that alone is a worthy chuckle or two.
Big spoiler: When she is locked in the rocket ship, she is pounding on the other side of the door. "Nicky, if you don't open this door, I'm never speaking to you again." I originally thought that was a promise, then I realized it was a threat.
" . . . . dah-ling . . . . dah-ling . . . . . dah-ling . . . . dah-ling . . . . ." The exploding croquet ball follwed by "sounds like we're in for a storm" always made me laugh too, and I do like the ending with Jeffries.