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The shapes we take don't fit the games you play
"Peter had succeeded in getting his pipe to draw, and, with both hands in his trouser-pockets, was observing the actors in the drama with an air of pleased detachment."
—Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
"Well, now you have me. It's that thing called charm. Without it, there is a not particularly personable, slightly skinny gent in an old loose tweed jacket and trousers with a patch on the seat and tortoise-rimmed glasses, pulling on a blunt pipe. With it, there is Leslie Howard."
—Ruth Rankin, "Leslie Howard – Perennial Charmer" (1936)
I still can't believe Busman's Honeymoon was filmed in the UK in 1940 when Leslie Howard was still alive and didn't star him. Every now and then I consider subjecting myself to it because I imagine Robert Newton was an ideal Frank Crutchley and then I remember everything else I have ever read or heard about it and I just re-read the novel.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
"Well, now you have me. It's that thing called charm. Without it, there is a not particularly personable, slightly skinny gent in an old loose tweed jacket and trousers with a patch on the seat and tortoise-rimmed glasses, pulling on a blunt pipe. With it, there is Leslie Howard."
—Ruth Rankin, "Leslie Howard – Perennial Charmer" (1936)
I still can't believe Busman's Honeymoon was filmed in the UK in 1940 when Leslie Howard was still alive and didn't star him. Every now and then I consider subjecting myself to it because I imagine Robert Newton was an ideal Frank Crutchley and then I remember everything else I have ever read or heard about it and I just re-read the novel.
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With Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings as Peter and Harriet! I have no idea how it happened; I have never, ever heard that the results were any good. I don't even know if Howard was considered for the part. I just think it's nuts that it happened without him and am anchronistically insulted on his behalf.