But Does She Do Windows?
But Does She Do Windows?
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#0But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 1:52pm
Who's your favorite maid/housekeeper/cleaning woman character in Stage/Screen/TV history?
My vote goes to the sinister Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca:
"Why don't you go? Why don't you leave Manderley? He doesn't need you... he's got his memories. He doesn't love you, he wants to be alone again with her. You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you?"
What's yours?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#1re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 1:54pmHazel - because Shirley Booth made something out of nothing.
#2re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 1:56pmMrs. Livingston, from The Courtship of Eddies' Father. Just because.
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
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Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 1:58pm
Mom - I LOVED that show! Well, I really just loved Bill Bixby - and still do 
And you're right, Mrs. Livingston WAS wonderful.
#4re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 1:59pmThis is a toughie! It's a tie between Agador in The Birdcage and Nell Harper on Gimme a Break.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 2:43pm
Shirley Booth's Hazel
Ann B. Davis' Alice
Esther Rolle's Florida Evans
Marla Gibbs' Florence
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Updated On: 2/14/05 at 02:43 PM
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Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 2:44pm
Marjorie Maine in "Meet Me In Saint Louis"! But, of course she was wonderful no matter what sort of domestic she played!
She has so many wonderful moments-- The Ketchup making scene, the Corned beef slicing scene, the kicking the cat down the stairs scene, but I think I like her speech about the puny ovens in New York Tenement kitchens the best!
Honorable mention would have to be "Annie" in "It's a Wonderful Life" who says "About time one of you lunkheads SAID it" and "Boys and girls and music-- why do they need Gin?" and of course the crowd pleaser "I been saving up for a divorce if'n I ever get a husband!"
#7re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 2:44pm
Don't forget Rosie on The Jetsons!!
I prob would have to go with Nell Carter And Marla Gibbs.
But what about Tony Danza and Mr. Belvedere?? 
#9re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 3:13pm
Ann B. Davis (Alice) in The Brady Bunch
Shelley Morrison in "Troop Beverly Hills" and on "Will and Grace"
Michael Benjamin Washington and all the other Jacobs in La Cage Aux Folles and the Birdcage.
Deet: Shira, I Love You!
#10re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 3:15pmwithout a doubt, Lane from "the importance of being Earnest"
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
#11re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 4:40pmAnyone in Gosford Park. Clive Owen doesn't technically count because he was a valet not a (male) maid. Otherwise my vote would go to him. Hot stuff....
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#12re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:38pm
Thelma Ritter in "Letter to Three Wives"
Frannie Halcyon's maid in the "Tales of the City" series
#13re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:55pmAlice (Ann B. Davis) from the Brady Bunch!
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#14re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:59pmHow can anyone miss Shelley Morrison on Will & Grace??
"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
#15re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:57pmDefinitely Shelley Morrison. And just the part in general of the maid (forget her name) in God's Favorite. Anyone sour about their position as a maid is pretty funny.
#16re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/15/05 at 5:30am
MAMMY in GWTW, of course.
"now you scrubs yerself wid dat strong lye soap, mr kennedy, 'fore i comes dere and scrubs ya mahself."
RIP glebby <3
#17re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:04am
Thelma Ritter in PILLOW TALK and ALL ABOUT EVE (in everything).
Mary Wickes as Nurse Dora Pickford in NOW VOYAGER. (I know she is technically a Nurse but as Bette Davis tells her - "Dora, I suspect you're a treasure!")
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
Ellie3
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/04
#19re: But Does She Do Windows?
Posted: 2/15/05 at 9:34amEsmerelda from Bewitched! Does she qualify? If not, Shelley Morrison.
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