# Nice rack, M! (or strange movie moments) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348 "2006-01-31T14:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/1 "2006-01-31T14:58:02Z")
So I’m flipping through the cable channels and I come across “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” And I stop because there’s a scene with a female fairy and she’s wearing nothing over the top but a leaf stuck over each nipple (and, OK, she’s painted green). And then I notice there’s something familiar about her face. And I look more closely, and I realize she looks kinda like M, James Bond’s boss in the last several Bond movies. And I check the database and it IS M, i.e., Judi Dench (the production dates from 1969). And I think, “Nice rack, M!” And that’s SO wrong, on SO many levels. You ever have a moment like that? (BTW, that production had some seriouis babeosity going for it. I’s female leads were played by Diana Rigg and Helen Mirren, when they were both hotties, and Dench was a hottie, too, as Titania. Too bad all that hotness is wasted on Shakespeare. If they could just have taken a break and done, y’know, BIKINI Shakespeare.) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/2 "2006-01-31T15:05:53Z")
Don’t bikinis cover more than leaves? Anyway, seeing The Manchurian Candidate and then seeing Murder She Wrote and then seeing The Court Jester, sure leads to mixed emotions on Angela Landsbury. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/3 "2006-01-31T15:37:03Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Don’t bikinis cover more than leaves? > Anyway, seeing The Manchurian Candidate and then seeing Murder She Wrote and then seeing The Court Jester, sure leads to mixed emotions on Angela Landsbury. Heck, try seeing her in Samson with Victor Mature – Talk about high Babe content. Angela was kicking a$$ and taking names in that department. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/4 "2006-01-31T15:52:20Z")
Shirley Jones. I’m a child of the '70’s, so she was _Mom_. Not long ago, I saw her in a role from the 1950’s. Shwing! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/5 "2006-01-31T16:11:47Z")
Yvonne DeCarlo, aka Lily Munster. During the 50’s she starred in a slew of 50’s westerns as the petticoat wearing ingenue the cowboys rescue all the time. Whoa! Boing! Boing! Fweeeet Fweeeer! As Lily Munster, she’s kinda sorta alluring, if you’re into that sort of thing. The niece was supposed to be the cheesecake, but I think Lily’s whirling dervish way of moving, plus those painted up bloodsucker lips, aroused more lust than Marylin. Some time ago I saw a C-rated horror movie that takes place in a haunted art school. The headmistress was this fat dowdy matron with her hair tied in a bun, and Lily Munster’s voice! Whah? How can this pig in a dress be Yvonne DeCarlo? Say it ain’t so! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/6 "2006-01-31T17:21:57Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Shirley Jones. I’m a child of the '70’s, so she was _Mom_. Not long ago, I saw her in a role from the 1950’s. Shwing! Definitely worth a hubba-hubba; and she won an Oscar for playing a hooker in _Elmer Gantry_. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/7 "2006-01-31T18:01:00Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Definitely worth a hubba-hubba; and she won an Oscar for playing a hooker in _Elmer Gantry_. The first thing I remember seeing her in is “A Bedtime Story” with David Niven and Marlon Brando, and yes I think it’s funnier than the remake (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) that is now apparently a musical. Yes, she was be-yoo-tee-ful. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/8 "2006-01-31T18:09:02Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > . Too bad all that hotness is wasted on Shakespeare. I was with you until here. Hotness _belongs_ in Shakespeare. I have that movie on VHS. Definate hot-osity. Of all the plays I’ve seen, **Felicity Kendal** in _Twelfth Night_ is by far the hottest. Especially when she is dressed as a guy. Hmmmmmm… I wonder what that says about me? (In addition to “I have great taste in women,” I mean. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_A_Tame_Lion)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/9 "2006-01-31T18:10:23Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Don’t bikinis cover more than leaves? > Anyway, seeing The Manchurian Candidate and then seeing Murder She Wrote and then seeing The Court Jester, sure leads to mixed emotions on Angela Landsbury. Angela Lansbury has to be the all time champ in this category. I could hardly pick my jaw up off the floor when I saw her in _The Court Jester._ Just unbelievable. I guess it goes to show, you just don’t know about that old lady you just passed in the grocery store. Back in the day, she may have been quite the Betty. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/10 "2006-01-31T18:14:15Z")
**"Nice rack, M! (or strange movie moments)"** Not as strange as could be, since the thread title made me wonder if it was about Peter Lorre. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/11 "2006-01-31T19:00:26Z")
Yes! Last night, we watched a few bits and pieces of the incredibly horrible movie _Myra Breckinridge_. One of the supposedly funny segments starred a 70-ish Mae West as a talent agent “interviewing”, har har, an assortment of leading men wannabes in her bedroom/office. First in line was a divinely gorgeous man who I suddenly realized was a young Tom Selleck. He must have been about 24 or so. Tom never did anything for me later on when he became more famous, but in 1970 when this film was made - ay caramba! And I’ll bet Mae was drooling, too. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/12 "2006-01-31T19:12:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Not as strange as could be, since the thread title made me wonder if it was about Peter Lorre. Nor as strange as if it had been about Bernard Lee in drag, which was my first thought. Bernard Lee played a British soldier in **The Third Man** , and wasn’t bad-looking. It was less than ten years later that he played James Bond’s eldery boss in **Dr. No**. Unless he was wearing really good makeup, he seems to have aged pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/13 "2006-01-31T19:33:21Z")
After _Rocky Horror_, I don’t think Susan Sarandon will ever _not_ be hot to me. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/14 "2006-01-31T21:52:23Z")
May I submit [Susannah York](http://web.ukonline.co.uk/york.jsrpages/dawn.jpg)? She makes me think I’d been born thirty years too late. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/15 "2006-01-31T21:52:26Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Diana Rigg and Helen Mirren, when they were both hotties Wait, aren’t they still? _mmmm, Helen Mirren_ ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/16 "2006-01-31T22:27:55Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > May I submit [Susannah York](http://web.ukonline.co.uk/york.jsrpages/dawn.jpg)? She makes me think I’d been born thirty years too late. Uh, HUH! And she’s even hotter in [The Killing of Sister George.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063185/) ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/17 "2006-01-31T23:44:03Z")
> [@LiveOnAPlane](#): > > Uh, HUH! And she’s even hotter in [The Killing of Sister George.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063185/) I’ll have to hunt that one down. I haven’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/18 "2006-02-01T00:22:48Z")
Rent _Grand Hotel_ (1932). Forget Greta Garbo. Check out the pre-Joan Crawford [Joan Crawford](http://joancrawfordma.tripod.com/id4.html). Now _that_ was a _man’s_ woman. The page above says, “Joan came into her face in the early 30s.” Brother, what I wouldn’t give to have done _that!_ ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/19 "2006-02-01T00:24:37Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Wait, aren’t they still? > _mmmm, Helen Mirren_ You too, huh? Mr. Aleq gets a major woody every time he hears her saying “Doctor Floyd? Doctor Floyd?” I’m no idiot, and I have a pretty good ability to mimic voices and that one is definitely in my repertoire… 😉 Ever catch her in [Age of Consent?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063991/) hummina hummina hummina, and apparently it’s been rereleased with more nudity if IMDB can be believed! Hmmm, perusing the notes on IMDB I find that the story was originally by Norman Lindsey, the painter on whom the movie [Sirens](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111201/) was based–an all time favorite of mine, with much nakedness of many many gorgeous womens. Okay, enough, I need a dab now! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348/20 "2006-02-01T00:43:29Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I was with you until here. Hotness _belongs_ in Shakespeare. The benchmark in Red-Hot British Shakespearean Totty still remains a nekkid [Francesca Annis](http://web.ukonline.co.uk/annis.jsrpages/2ffax.htm) in Roman Polanski’s 1971 version of Macbeth. Still rates in the “I’d tap that” department. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-rack-m-or-strange-movie-moments/342348.md?page=2)