Daisy's fifteen today "but quite sophisticated for her age." He sister Gloria "ran off with some guy in real estate", her half-witted tobacco-voiced gypsy mother has finally started around the bend and on top of that a Limo drives up in front of their old wooden shack sitting on the bean side of Angel Beach. Ma thinks it's a Hurst. "Daisy would ya please send that Hurst away" Daisy excitedly replies "It's going away Old Chap .. With ME in it" and so it goes. Daisy sings. Raymond Swann of Swann Pictures asks Daisy why she sings? She replies "My mama says this world's a garbage dump'n we're just the flies it attracts, but when I sing, the smell doesn't seem so bad". So begins this studio-owned teenager's meteoric rise to the "top of the heap" which includes an extended stay at a sanitarium for her senile media dead mother. A lost trip to the desert town of Jawbone, Arizona for a honeymoon with a homosexual heart throb "who never could resist a charming boy". A torrid what-the-hell affair with her middle-aged studio head boss, while her mother's silently dies on her daughter's beach house bed clutching in her stiff bony hand, eights and aces... The Deadman's Hand! A nervous breakdown in which the sad, lonely, lovely lady .. Mr. Swann's wife suggests a little trip "around the world". for the two of them, A meeting in Daisy's bedroom where her boss ...her boyfriend ..Raymond Swann says to her "You Don't LOSE me money you MAKE me money" The funniest part of this movie and the one I laugh at every time I see it is Daisy trying to knock herself off at the end. Phone off, door locked, head in oven. Door bell, sign autograph, phone used. Phone on, door locked, head in oven. burner on, burn hand, out of gas, kick chair, Door bell, phone ring
Screw it - Just have some coffee Daisy!
Screw it - Just have some coffee Daisy!