Interiors from the film Tommy, 1975
Ann Margret as Nora Walker Hobbs in Ken Russell’s 1975 film “Tommy”. This scene, not to mention the whole film, was absolutely formative for me (and apparently I’m not alone). It opens with a drunk Nora watching TV in her all-white glam boudoir; on the screen is an ad for baked beans, “Fit For A Queen.” Nora throws a champagne bottle through the TV set, soap suds and baked beans pour out into the white bedroom, and she writhes, laughing, in the surreal, psychedelic mess.
See Hilly Blue’s excellent collection of film stills at Flickr.
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April 12th, 2009 at 11:50 am
It’s such a long time since I’ve seen this movie that I’d forgotten about the sets. The first still is very mid-1970s Art Deco. Ken Russell, bless him, is one of our eccentric national treasures, and like so many British treasures, largely ignored.