This is at one and the same time the least amused and somehow the most fabulous photo I have ever run across of the one and only Miss Sophie Tucker, Last of the Red-Hot Mamas.And now we now why - it was that fur collar.
As for what's going on with the hair? The less said, the better.
It's as if she were trying, singlehandedly, to bridge the flapper-dowager divide, with only limited success. Still, she's a grand ol' gal and we adore her.
"I was in bed last night with my boyfriend, Ernie..."
ReplyDeleteI would have never recognized her from that picture.
ReplyDelete"..and he said to me, 'Soph,' he said, we have got to have a talk about that hair-bump'!"
ReplyDeleteher picture has solved for me, at last, the pressing question of what to do with those used jiffy-pop foil helmets after they've popped the corn.
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