Les Girls (1957)
Kay Kendall: Lady Sybil Wren
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Quotes
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Lady Sybil Wren : If I was a man I'd have nothing to do with me.
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Lady Sybil Wren : We were in Paris, that was true. We were playing at the Music Hall Parisien in an act called. 'Barry Nichols and Les Girls'. lt happened, well, well some years ago. lt was our first engagement in Paris and l can recall the excitement we felt at being in this gay city in the world of the theater. Everything to us about Paris was exciting. The smells, the sounds, the taxi noises, and everything!
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Sir Percy : Lady Wren, you have acknowledged authorship of this biography entitled, 'Les Girls'.
Lady Sybil Wren : l have.
Sir Percy : This is your first venture into literature?
Lady Sybil Wren : How kind of you to call it literature, Sir Percy. l'd only aspired to write a few amusing anecdotes.
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Lady Sybil Wren : Where were you working before, Angèle?
Angèle Ducros : l was last in a ballet called 'Le Coquerico'. All about chickens.
Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : Did you lay an egg?
Angèle Ducros : l do not understand.
Lady Sybil Wren : Joy means, ''did you get fired?''
Angèle Ducros : Oh, no. l quit! Nobody could see me behind all those feathers.
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Joanne 'Joy' Henderson , Lady Sybil Wren , Angèle Ducros : [singing] Ah, what charms they disclose, From their hats to their hose, From the tips of their toes, Up to their - curls!
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Lady Sybil Wren : Oh, that sly little pussycat.
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Lady Sybil Wren : Lovely, rich. Lovely, rich pussycat.
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Angèle Ducros : Put the coffee on. I'll get the bed ready.
Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : Fill the bath.
Lady Sybil Wren : With Gin!
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Lady Sybil Wren : l am the naughty cigarette girl. And all the men, they want my - cigarettes.
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Barry Nichols , Lady Sybil Wren : [singing] I've got to say, In everyday, You're just too, too...
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Lady Sybil Wren : [mocking Barry] Now then, there's one thing l insist on in my act - plenty of complications. l won't interfere with your private lives if you watch my Three P's: pickles, pins and poop-poop-a-doop!
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Lady Sybil Wren : l've never had so much fun. Please don't spoil it.
Sir Gerald Wren : Aren't you being a little selfish?
Lady Sybil Wren : Very selfish. lf l were a man l'd have nothing to do with me. Be an angel and kiss me goodbye.
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Lady Sybil Wren : l don't mind being compared to a hoot owl. They're rather sweet. But, well, you don't really think of me as ''cold-blooded,'' do you? I mean, all Americans think the English are.
Barry Nichols : Oh, no, no. The English - now, take the Latins, they light up like a paper fire. You're more like hard coal.
Lady Sybil Wren : Heavy and lumpy. Thanks.
Barry Nichols : No, no, no. Hard coal is slow to burn, but once it starts - there's quite a blaze.
Lady Sybil Wren : And for a long time.
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Lady Sybil Wren : You won't believe me, but l didn't like you when l first met you.
Barry Nichols : And now?
Lady Sybil Wren : Now you make me feel little and helpless and tiny and frail. All the absurd things that l know l'm not.
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Sir Gerald Wren : ls having fun that important?
Lady Sybil Wren : Don't worry, l'll grow up someday.
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Barry Nichols : [singing] You're just too luscious, too very, very sweet!
Lady Sybil Wren : Oh, you're just too sexy when you turn on the heat!
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Sir Gerald Wren : lt's the Christopher Marlowe, where Sybil was playing when we first met. Do you remember, darling. Do you remember how badly you sang?
Lady Sybil Wren : Why, l've improved.
Sir Gerald Wren : Oh, you must have.
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Barry Nichols : lt wouldn't hurt you two girls to stay home once in a while. Stay home once in a while and read a book, because, well, in this business you need a lot of rest.
Lady Sybil Wren : Dear old Dad forgets that his little girls have blossomed into womanhood.
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Lady Sybil Wren : He wants to remind me to avoid oysters and he's quite right.
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Lady Sybil Wren : l was very naughty, wasn't l?
Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : Yeah. Maybe a cool damp cloth'll help.