![]() ![]() ![]() She even purportedly - amongst a line-up of lovers that included Rex Harrison, Douglas Fairbanks, Maurice Chevalier, Jack Buchanan, Michael Hordern, Paul Robeson and Christopher Cazenove - bedded the extravagantly gay Cecil Beaton. She later famously married Vincent Price (hardly the "butchest" of men), whom she met while playing a theatre critic whom he electrocuted to death under a salon hairdryer. She married Philip Pearman in 1950, despite his homosexuality, and stayed with him until his death in 1964. We don't want to be pounced on every 30 seconds by some hairy ape."Īpropos of the final quote, she had a strange fascination for gays in her personal life. "Women feel very comfortable with homosexuals.Not with me standing here in a state of fucking grace." (On being collared by a queeny actor friend eager to share a piece of gossip, while leaving Brompton Oratory after mass) "Like acting with two and half tons of condemned veal." (Her verdict on one of her leading men.)."Nobody we know, dear." (On seeing the giant phallus used on the set of Peter Brook‘s production of Oedipus for the National Theatre in 1968.)."My God! My fucking eyelashes have dropped off!" (While filming An Englishman Abroad in freezing Moscow)."I could never understand what Godfrey Tearle saw in Jill Bennett, until I saw her at the Caprice eating corn-on-the-cob.". ![]() ![]() "The quality of the writing? You couldn’t write 'fuck' in the dust on a Venetian blind!" (To an unknown writer at a Hollywood party who questioned the quality of Alan Bennett’s writing.)."If you really fucking want to know, I feel as if I’m looking out of a yak’s arsehole." (On being asked by Tony Guthrie if she was happy with her wig for a production of Tamburlaine in New York.).Suffice to say, the notoriously foul-mouthed Aussie diva would have had a few choice words to say on the matter. Barry Humphries' rhyming tribute to Coral Browne at her memorial service.įor 50 years the presiding doyenne of waspish put-downs in theatrical circles in the West End, and a long-time icon of gay people everywhere, Miss Coral Browne's centenary passed relatively unnoticed yesterday amidst the hysteria surrounding the Royal birth. ![]()
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