Be My Guest - Irene: Question #11 and #12

11. What stars, besides your favorites would you have love to meet in person?

Irene: Though I like so many classic ladies and gentlemen that much, I don’t think that I want to meet them.
You see.. it’s the imagination that makes them perfect. A meeting in person would destroy the illusion.


Like an impressionistic painting: Don’t come too close! All what is left from the beauty will be some colored dots..


I like my stars larger than life.

Monty: well that's very well said Irene.
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12. And finally, if you could be one movie character, who would it be and why?



Irene: I don’t think that I want to replace any character – But I dream of being one small extra character in each and every film!:

An additional woman in THE WOMEN (1939)
Monty: I could see you in The Women...trading wisecracks with Roz and Paulette.
Irene: or Eve Arden’s ~ I adore Eve Arden ~ little sister in MILDRED PIERCE (1945)

or an aspiring but clumsy journalist in HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) who is following Rosalind Russell’s character where ever she goes and makes her mad.. (I can see Roz stumble upon me - I think that scene has to end with me on the floor trying to collect the fluttering sheets of a really massive script - while Ms. Russell runs out with a quip..)


Monty: Oh so you want to follow Roz around? I bet that would make for an interesting day...
Irene: Oh - I have about 1,000 ideas!!


I am the classic best friend’s friend - and I’d love to get some witty lines though.. ;”)




Monty: I see..well  very cool indeed Ms. Palfy