Florence Foster Jenkins: People may say I couldn't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing.
Florence Foster Jenkins: They're getting through the potato salad like gannets.
St Clair Bayfield: No mockers and no scoffers.
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
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Directed by: Stephen Frears
Starring: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Helberg
Factual error: Women's stockings had seams in 1944. When people are dancing at the party in Bayfield's apartment, the backs of women's legs appear in enough shots to show that their stockings, anachronistically, are seamless.
Question: Bayfield and McMoon buy every copy of the New York Post in their neighborhood and throw them in the trash so as to not upset Florence if she ever found out the truth of what people thought of her singing. Wouldn't this have been a waste of time, especially if somebody just came right up to Florence at any time and told her what they really thought of her singing?
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Answer: They had no way of knowing whether or not someone would do that, but they did whatever they could to keep her from reading the bad reviews.
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