Here's what Lupe told Motion Picture magazine about her date with Charlie (Unfortunately Motion Picture may have taken some liberties with Lupe's actual way of speaking here but I do enjoy what she said even if she did not say it in this manner):
Of course, every time you go out with mens in Hollywood, they put it in newspapers. I go once with Charlie Chaplin. Just once-- to the opening of "Lilac Time." They say we are going together. But I like Charlie. I love to listen to him. He has so many brains. He is-- what you say?-- a geen-i-oos. His talk teach me somethings. I want to learn things in this country. Of course, I flirt with him. I flirt with every mans, but that means nothing. (Lupe Velez, "The Love-Life Story of Lupe Velez," Motion Picture, January 1929)
ugh, why do I get the feeling that Motion Picture magazine wrote this in a speaking style they thought would be funny. I've seen Lupe Velez films and she does not talk like THAT.
ReplyDeleteI thought the exact same thing and should have added a disclaimer to the post because it is a bit offensive. I still enjoyed *what* she said, even if she didn't speak like that in real life.
DeleteLOL - yeah!
DeleteI love how she says she loves to listen to him talk. I can just imagine him rattling on about all his movies and his time in London. Its just a really adorable picture.
ReplyDeleteAnd I mean it was the 1920s..foreigners, even famous ones, weren't really respected or treated like people...