The tramp, the call girl and the gigolo...

The lady is a tramp : une chanson écrite et composée en 1937 par Lorentz Hart et Richard Rodgers pour la comédie musicale montée à Broadway Babes in arms et adaptée au cinéma en 1939 par Busby Berkeley avec Mickey Rooney et Judy Garland. Elle est notablement interprétée par Ella Fitzgerald, mais aussi bien sûr par Frank Sinatra comme dans le film Pal Joey de George Sidney en 1957.

She gets too hungry, for dinner at eight
She likes the theater and never comes late
She never bothers, with people she'd hate
That's why the lady is a tramp

Doesn't like dice games, with barons or earls
Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls
Won't dish the dirt with the rest of the girls
That's why this chick is a tramp

She loves the free, cool wind in her hair
Life without care
She's broke and it's oak
Doesn't like California, it's cold and it's damp
That's why the lady is a tramp

She gets far too hungry, they wait there for dinner at eight
She adores the theater however doesn't get there late
She'd never bother with someone she'd hate
That is why the lady is a tramp

Doesn't like dice games with barons and earls
Never makes a trip up to Harlem, driving shiny Lincoln's and Ford's
She won't dish the dirt, with the rest of those broads
That's why this chick is a Tramp

She loves the free, fine, wild, knocked out, coo coo, groovy wind in her hair
Life's without a care
She's broke, but it's oak
She loathes California, it's so cold, and so damp
That's why the lady, that's why the lady
That's why the lady is a tramp

Audrey Hepburn en call girl au parcours douloureux  et fascinée par les diamants. Source image intermédiaire : Southern living.

George Peppard en écrivain sans le sou gigolo. Ici avec avec Audrey Hepburn et Patricia Neal. Source image intermédiaire : Alamy.

Breakfast at Tiffany's, un roman de Truman Capote de 1958 adapté au cinéma par Blake Edwards en 1961. Ou la rencontre amoureuse d'une call girl et d'un écrivain gigolo.

Moralités...?

("Quand on est porté par l'amour, on triomphe toujours..." chantait Henri Salvador dans L'abeille et le papillon...)

Blog de Philippe Prunet (Overblog) : 17 juin 2023.