In order to be correct, that will require, I presume, a name change, which is easily accomplished by surrendering a small fee to your local magistrate along with the request.
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.
@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!!!
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.
Joan Greenwood had the most satisfying, sexy, husky voice! If you haven't seen "Tom Jones," from a decade later, (1963), give yourself a treat, and check it out this weekend!
If you warch the entire film, I promise that what Joan Greenwood does with the last word in the line "... and you have given me cake" will sear itself into your memory. 🙂
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....
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.
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.
Edith Evans did not come from an aristocratic background, which no doubt helped her give such a devastatingly scalpel-sharp characterization of the priviledged classes in roles like Lady Bracknell.
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
I read this play many years ago and thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever read. Wilde was brilliant! I specifically remember this scene, which Dame Edith performs perfectly, though nowadays it's often performed with a man playing Lady Bracknell. There is a bit of this scene that was left out of the film. Lady Bracknell asks Jack which number on Belgrave Square his house is. When he tells her, she replies, "The unfashionable side! But I suppose that can be changed". "The side or the fashion?" he asks. "Both, if necessary," she replies in her inimitable arrogant tone.
Love how she turns "handbag" into a 6-syllable word.
Or "found" in a 4-syllable word. FA-OU-N-DD (5:00)
A 🖐🏽 BaAAaaaaGg’h
It's parodied in this British medical sitcom 😂 ua-cam.com/video/_9UnJp_bQa0/v-deo.html
Imagine her destroying a Haiku
Exactly 😂😂😂😂
"Mr Worthing, rise, Sir, from this semi-recumbent posture!" - I'm having that as my new alarm!
It is MOST indecorous!
It's so worth it. I try to work in "semi-recumbent posture" every chance I get.
In order to be correct, that will require, I presume, a name change, which is easily accomplished by surrendering a small fee to your local magistrate along with the request.
Such immortal lines! And none of them immaterial.
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.
Yeah thanks but I think we're all here for the handbag quote
If they would only bring back Heightened RP
@@Conor.Somers1 Only simpletons would utter such immaterial things.
No one does a handbag like Edith Evans.
The suspenseful music coming after "The line is immaterial!" is fantastic.
To be immortalised with the expression of one word. Genius.
"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortunte, to lose both looks like carelessness"
Fabulous. Thank god this was filmed. Dame Edith was spectacular and unique.
Yes indeed. The best cast in a thousand years.
5:34
Hero
Thanks!
A Partridge amongst the pigeons
thank you!
god bless
5:34 The most emotionally riveting part of the scene.
Go to 5:30 put the speed down to 0.25 an sit back and enjoy.
Hero
Oh my god the rate she changes the ouch if her voice lol
this will be lurking in my head when I go to sleep
On 2x speed she says it as any normal person would say it.
@@92jwiener LMAO...You're so right!!!!!!!!!!!
I do not know HOW the poor man stifled a howl of laughter.
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!
@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!!!
This one is by far the best!!!! Version/ rendition
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.
I don’t know what I was expecting to be the context of “a haAnDbAaAg??” but it wasn’t this
5:00 How to turn a one syllable word into a 5 syllable word.
😂😂
fou-oh-oUUUnd??!
I came for the handbag and stay for the story
Oscar must have known Edith would be born
I was found...
Lady Bracknell: *F O o o O u U N n d D d??*
No, forgive me, Lady Bracknell. Found.
Sheer perfection. Edith Evans owns it all.
Came here for the handbag. But damn, Gwendolin's deep voice saying "Mama" is so funny to me.
Joan Greenwood had the most satisfying, sexy, husky voice! If you haven't seen "Tom Jones," from a decade later, (1963), give yourself a treat, and check it out this weekend!
If you warch the entire film, I promise that what Joan Greenwood does with the last word in the line "... and you have given me cake" will sear itself into your memory. 🙂
Oscar! Professional to amateur productions still shine because of him. His writing triumphs no matter what.
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....
Perambulator, a word that should be used more often.
Now that's what I call a mother in law interrogation lol
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.
Yep - snf but nobody ever came near her on this on - nooooobody!
A hAaaAaAnD bAaAag*
And I bet she loves it!
A man of culture, i see 👏👏👏
“I’ve got the video bookmarked”
A boooookMAAAAAAAAARK?
For me Edith Evans IS Lady Bracknell.
What a performance! I'm still laughing half an hour after...
She speaks "tonal" English when she says "handbag", that's almost what all the syllables in the 3rd tone sound in Chinese.
"The line is immaterial!"
Lady Bracknell - Influence lost.
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.
My all time favorite Wilde play. I have seen several movie versions of this play, this version is my favorite by far!
Came for the meme, stayed for the whole clip. Poor man got found in a black handbagghghghg
It gets trippy if you slow the handbag down to x0.25.
5:33 for those looking
What a hoot! I didn't even know about her until Tea with the Dames. How Bloomsbury can you get!
Edith Evans did not come from an aristocratic background, which no doubt helped her give such a devastatingly scalpel-sharp characterization of the priviledged classes in roles like Lady Bracknell.
If we couldn't have film of Edith Evans' Millamant or Mrs Malaprop, her Lady Bracknell is a decent consolation prize
I love how gwendolin goes like "not quite fInIShEd yET"
Fortunately in England at any rate education has produced no effect whatsover.
It’s at 5:33 if you want to find it quickly!
5:33 you might be here for this
I love you Edith!!
Inimitable Dame Edith Evans 🤣😂🤣😂
Even though it's over the top, there are some valid points!
Glorious!!!!
The importance of being a handbag
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
A haaand-baaaag?!
This must be the voice of God to Moses during the Ten Commandments handover.
Legendary
7:37: The "good morning" sick burn. There has only ever been one.
If you set it at x2 speed, she speaks in a normal person speed lol
Wow it really works 😂
“ This place has gone Orf Terribly”
I read this play many years ago and thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever read. Wilde was brilliant! I specifically remember this scene, which Dame Edith performs perfectly, though nowadays it's often performed with a man playing Lady Bracknell. There is a bit of this scene that was left out of the film. Lady Bracknell asks Jack which number on Belgrave Square his house is. When he tells her, she replies, "The unfashionable side! But I suppose that can be changed". "The side or the fashion?" he asks. "Both, if necessary," she replies in her inimitable arrogant tone.
This scene feels like an 1800s Dutch cigarette ad come to life
The play dates from 1895.
it made it more funnier now that i know the full context of the meme
finally i have some context for that one green wing scene
The only way to see it--in the theatre the scene must take another 8 minutes for the laughter.
Love this film especially Margaret Rutherford as miss Prism
Sir Michael Redgrave - incomparable ... The Dead of Night.
My favorite performance of his.
How the guy didn't crack at that moment lol.
5:34 Is what you're looking for.
A haa (the entire set of lyrics to the song Stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin) aandbag?!
All I can imagine is Mycroft Holmes being Lady Bracknell
Yes. Mark would look "dishy" dress like that
Thank you
I have to watch the movie now.
Lets be honest, we all came here for 5:33
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.
She absolutely does not
Do watch the whole play, it's absolute genius. Full of witty dialogues like this and a very over-the-top plot.
5:30 A handbag??
5:33 "a haaaaandbaaag?"
I love 💕 you J and all handbags you bought for me in 1997
I never form alliances with parcels
Am I the only one wondering how Mycroft would sound as Lady Bracknell?
if by Mycroft you mean Mark Gatiss, he would be spectacular.....
Really just left the cursor on the UI huh
Anyone else came here after watching green wing when sue says "hhhhandggg baag!"
She reminds me of a white Aunt Esther!! (From Sanford & Son)
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.
If it's an actor as brilliant as Sir Michael, it's fine by me.
Haaaand Baaaag? She's adorable
Understand why modern productions try to avoid him saying "I'm a Liberal Unionist", but having LB say Liberals "count as Tories" isn't worth it.
That's my mom like for real
"...we work together..". Hilarious
Fierce that one
As if he had any choice in being an orphan 💀
The late great Victoria Wood and the brilliant sitcom dinner ladies brought me here 😃😃
5:31😂
Ah! The French Revolution; a time of regular handbag births…
A bug-out HAAAANNDDDDBAAAG?!!
5:33 you’re welcome
😆 Armer Kerl. Gut , dass diese Zeiten vorbei sind.
Überhaupt nicht gut!
fou-oh-oUUUnd??!
Can you imagine the Queen of England meeting Prince Harry's handbag lol!!
Classic eat it record in summer school highjinks dramarama 1984?
fancy.
Gwendolyn is so beautiful
5:39 5:44
5:48
5:59
No
Wubby7
what an odd way to speak. sounds like that one guy from the life of brian
ua-cam.com/video/oyuoUwxCLMs/v-deo.html
in case you missed it