Wild 1950's Cocktail Party

Nothing happens, yet EVERYTHING happens here - a recreation of a WILD 1950's adult cocktail party, as inspired by movies ot the time in which there are rampant cigarettes and martinis, wanton confetti tossing and the inevitable wanton woman who strips down to - HER BRA!!!.
This was originally done for my partner who I knew was going to be out of town on his Birthday, and I made this in "spurts" prior to his trip - that is, I had 2-3 people come over, make them wear various wigs and smoke, and tape them, and they would leave. This went on for two weeks, and every evening my partner would come home and say "why do I smell cigarettes?"
Finally, days after his Birthday, when he was home, I showed this to him, saying, "see what you missed?"
I am still finding confetti in nooks and crannies to this day...
Key totally random lines to listen for:

"We were abroad at the time-"
"Well YOU'RE a broad! YOU'RE a broad!" (gales of drunken laughter)

"How are they going to land a MAN on the MOON?"

"Well, they used to call me the Mambo Queen, and -"

"DOLLY is on Eisenhower's platform - course, she's a little HEAVY!" (Drunken laughter)

"Well, it's like a Pate but not as expensive..."

"It's a highball sort-of-a-thing, I made it, but I don't know what it is!"

"Well, with a chest like that, who wouldn't?!"

"SHAKE IT! SHAKE IT!"

My favorite thing about this piece is the repetitive and repulsive visuals of snacks and drinks being passed around in loaded ASHTRAYS...a trait I have carried over into my current pieces today.

Taped and Edited on VHS back in the early 90's, this was a fun experiment in SCARY stereotypical drunken 1950's Cocktail Horror taken to the extreme. There IS a RAUNCHIER version of this too, but I'm not about to post that...

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• 1950's
• Cocktails
• Parties
• Wild
• Martinis
• Smoking
• 1960's
• and
• movies
• Strippers
• Cocktail
• Shakers
• Bras
• Mambo
• music
• Records
• Cha
• Music
• Snacks
• Confetti
• Streamers
• Birthday
• Messy
• Crazy
• abandon

[MGMstar]

I loved it. It reminds me of a cross between one of Holly Golightly's partys and the wild party at the end of "La Doce Vita". Brilliant!

[CrashingCrockery]

@MGMstar Thank you! I later saw a movie called "The Interns" (1963? - 64?) that has an INSANE New Year's Eve party in it similar to this - constant showers of confetti and -yes- a woman who strips down to her

BLACK BRA

and slip.

Scandalous!!

[threestarblue]

that is quite a mess for someone to clean up. :)

[CrashingCrockery]

Gee, I wonder if anybody ever DID clean it up???

[threestarblue]

i highly Doubt It.

[CrashingCrockery]

: D

[CrashingCrockery]

@AdrienKondylis17336 Some of the down-and-dirty mambos and Latin music is from "The Fabulous Ballroom Collection: Arthur Murray's Music for Dancing," which was on CD, maybe is still out there; and other selections were from a Steve Allan record.

[CherryOnStage]

Hey can you tell me what this Mambo song is called?

[CrashingCrockery]

Yes, and even though *I* made it, I am still frightened by the Monster MAMBO music towards the end.  It's just down and dirty!

[capsizebrian]

You just know that sometime back then our parents were really whooping it up like this. So many details to take in and I love the swingin groovy music!