Sunday night pressie for my readers:-
I’m sure you can all recognise Mr Hugh Grant in this movie, doing a shockingly bad job of playing Lord Byron as a floppy-haired Sloane, but who’s the lovely, bushy-browed girl co-starring with him? Do you remember her as she was before the fashion posse got hold of her?
Byron’s travails with women are the stuff of legend and the story of the best-known of his conquests, Lady Caroline Lamb, is set out in most excellent detail here. There’s no doubt but that Byron was a scoundrel but then again any relationship with a lady in the habit of enclosing bunches of blood-stained pubes with her billets-doux must have been a bit hairy to say the least.
The title of this post is a nod to Byron’s famous diatribe ‘Remember Thee?‘ written in response to a note ‘Remember me?’ left by Lady Caroline in his Visitors’ Book when stalking him following the end of the relationship. Self-professed Byronic rakes might want to take note. 
Lady Caroline doesn’t appear in the film above but she does have her own film ‘Lady Caroline Lamb’ in which she is played by the equally unhinged Sarah Miles. No 70s biopic would be complete without a bared bosom and the producers of the movie must have been delighted to find out the pellucid qualities of the wet muslin frocks (Grecian, they called them) worn by early 19th century society ladies. What was considered most shocking at the time was that they allowed the shape of the legs to show through.
Lady Caroline, looking a bit chilly.
Though outdone in modern terms by the Freudian treasure-trove that is the Hurley-Grant-Warne triangle, the Byron-Lamb story (a classic narcissist/co-dependent relationship?) is a fascinating one from point of view of psychological analysis and you can read some very interesting commentary on it here. Caroline’s own account may be found here.
Shocking brows on Liz, nearly as dreadful as Hugh Grant’s acting… a definite Turkey best saved for Thanksgiving.
Very interesting post
Ah, how fitting that the first comment on this post should be from a self-professed Byronic rake.
Just watch out for all those twitter admirers, Louis.
Hugh Grant falls into that not insubstantial category of actors who can’t do period drama. There were only two good things about that film and both of them belonged to Liz and they weren’t her eyebrows neither.
Louis, ne vous souvenez de moi?
Et moi?
Moi, Louis?
moi aussi!!!
Salut Louis!
Bonjour!
Guten Abend, Louis!
Shalom, my Shegetz…
Hurley’s aged pretty well – i never knew she acted. I never knew Hugh Grant was so abysmal in period pieces…he seems to do better in those “I’m super good looking and charming but I don’t quite know it which totally makes me more charming” movies. Kiera Knightley would have been an improvement….
Why is it I always seem to forget just how bad Hugh Grant is? I couldn’t manage all the video.
I liked Hugh in Sense and Sensibility… In fact, I used to be a big fan until recently. I had a boss for a split second that is a dead ringer for middle-aged Hugh, and it kind of ruined it for me. I have a new boss now at work so maybe there’s hope of recovery.
I never thought Liz was that pretty; there’s something striking, sensual, and attractive even, but not beautiful. What were the two things in the movie that belonged to Liz and were great?
I think thicker eyebrows are making a comeback. Thank goodness I’m back in style.
Hm… someone seems to be playing a prank with all those Frondettes.
@Maurice
I genuinely don’t know anything about the Frondettes (though I have my suspicions) but they appear to be harmless, so I’ll leave them off moderation for the moment.
@Rebekah
I was talking about Liz’s pre-weight loss decolletage, looking its best in that movie I’ve been told. That was the film where the two of them met by the way, so rosemantic!
@El Sido @Flavia
In fairness, I think Hugh’s acting chops have improved with age and as Rebekah points out, he did make a better fist of period drama in ‘Sense and Sensibility’.
Sarah Miles: “updated groovy” 60′s June Allyson LSD kook.
I KNOW Anglo-Saxon culture is DEAD DEAD when Hugg Grant plays LORD FRIKKIN BYRON.
Still, nice nips for a limey; I always thought french girls were the only ones to show it all, albeit unshorn n’ hairy.
nice nips for a limey
she’s been taking the piss for years (literally), apparently that’s the secret.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_therapy
well, those nipswerenice
in that pic back
…in 1969
I agree w Rebekah that HG was really good in Emma Thompson’s S&S. It’s 50% of his first-class films. 3rd class are the ones where he just does his persona while asleep eg NH, Love Actually, Mickey Blue Eyes, but there are second class films where he just acts, eg Small Time Crooks.
The second picture illustrates Benjamin Franklin’s adevice that women age from the top down – breasts still good but face of an ageless lizard. Quite scary. I assume I’m not the first to call it Lady Caroline Mutton-dressed-as.
@John (London)
Sarah Miles was only 30 when ‘Lady Caroline Lamb’ was filmed, more or less the same age as in Ryan’s Daughter (where she played a reasonably convincing 20 year old).
I think she needed a fringe to look good.