Carol Burnett has finally lifted the lid on the most embarrassing moment she had to face in her notable career in Hollywood.
Burnett appeared on the recent episode of The Patrick LabyorSheaux with Patrick Labyorteaux, where she was asked to share an embarrassing moment in the entertainment world.
“Oh, The Front Page. When I did that, I was terrible,” the 93-year-old American comedian and actress said, referring to her 1974 American black comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder.
In The Front Page, Burnett played the role of Mollie Malloy alongside an ensemble cast, including Jack Lemmon, Susan Sarandon, Cliff Osmond, Walter Matthau, Charles Durning, and others.
Notably, the film was about a successful Chicago newspaperman who quits his reporting career to settle down in life, but his editor makes efforts to stop bidding farewell to his job.
“I thought it was the right part … but I was nervous. After it was released, I never wanted to see it because I knew how awful I was and I certainly did not get good reviews and so forth,” the Better Call Saul star quipped.
Calling to mind one of the horrible experiences of her career, she shared, “So now I’m on an airplane, going to New York and oh my god the movie they’re going to show was The Front Page, on the plane and the stewardess — at that time they called them stewardesses — said, ‘Oh, and we’re going to have the movie and one of the stars is with us today on the flight.’”
“And everybody turned around and smiled and waved and I thought, ‘Oh no. Oh my god.’ Now the movie starts and everybody pulls down their shades and I just couldn’t watch. It was terrible.”
“The movie ends, everybody puts the shades up and nobody turns around to smile,” Carol Burnett remembered.