I expect her to just tear James MacArthur's (Clay-boy's) clothes off and do him right there in front of the camera.
Talk about slut-in-training!!
Irony is, she's the only spice to this too-too-precious movie; thank God the Waltons wasn't like this. . .
I just saw this movie on TCM, and that chick was aching to get laid.
In fact, despite all the church going, all the ladies in that movie are horny as hell.
Maureen O'Hara gave birth to 9 kids !!!
Quite startling in what is essentially a family movie
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I do agree that Mimsey was a bit over the top but you have to realize back then it was normal to have alot of kids... so I don't think having 9 kids would have been that big of deal
Maureen O'Hara, Ireland Best Actress. Got Maureen O'Hara and Julie Andrews autograph 2008!
A lot of the dialogue was also pretty borderline suggestive for 1963 -- discussing what the bull and heifer were going to do, the CONSTANT talk by the little sister about going "wee-wee" (and her very creepy constant insistence on Clay-Boy "helping" her) and the discussion, and showing off, by the junior-high-age sister, about her "bosoms."
And in addition to Clarice's movie-long audition for the role of "Miss Wyoming Nympho of 1963," in her first scene in the movie she shouts out her measurements to Clay-Boy, and when he doesn't seem to know what "34-24-34" means, she acts about ready to rip off her clothes and show him.
Nope, jaystarstar, nothing creepy at all about a little sister asking for help going wee-wee. MAYBE if Clayboy was always trying to GIVE her UNWANTED help going wee-wee (MAYBE), but this is another example of people trying to crowbar "creepy" into what seems like every other post. The word has absolutely no power anymore.
shareDon't forget Minnie-Cora, who was hornier than the bull her father owned. That's two hot girls, who all but gave Clayboy a menu and a price list. And he had no idea what they were talking about.
shareMinnie-Cora is an intriguing character. After essentially propositioning Clayboy Spencer early in the film, we later see that she has "moved up the corporate ladder" by shacking up with Henry Fonda's boss. When Fonda asks his boss for 500 dollars, Minnie-Cora obviously uses her sexuality to cause the request to be denied.
Maybe she's getting back at Clayboy, who never took her up on that earlier proposition!
I found Clay-Boy's naivety hard to accept. Living on a farm, he'd should have seen plenty of farm animals going at it. But, given the times, they probably had to write it that way.
shareI don't think so. Why would the girls be that far ahead of the boys. Don't forget when Clayboy was working on the new house and Mimsy came to visit him, they went off togetherand I don't think it was to pick berries.
shareInteresting point. I think my opinion about Clay-boy was formed very early in the movie when one of the girls (now I've forgotten which one: Minnie-Cora?) propositions him and his reaction is a deer-in-the-headlights look. Perhaps that's a character development that I completely missed.
shareYeah, it was Minnie-Cora. Clayboy already had an established relationship with Mimsey and I think he was surprised another girl would make a play for him. It's a small community so he may have also been worried if he tried something with Minnie-Cora, it would get back to Mimsy and mess up a relationship that he really wanted. But I will say that Clayboy was no James Bond with the ladies.
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