THE REAL FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS ON FILM 

Whose quote is this? I love it.

​@@pathenman4513 She said it as she was dying in the film. I think she said it in real life too though. (obviously change the pronouns to 'I')

I am going to have this inscribed on my tombstone! 😊

I think that she sang and did not sing at the same time...

And do it so badly.

She was really a nasty piece of work. She left her paramour virtually nothing when she died.

Careful what you say !! We have someone who dared to run for President and look what’s going on !!!

​@@zamyrabyrd Hi yes it is true that St Clair Bayfield only got $ 10,000 from her fortune and had to go to court with their love letters as proof to get that. However that was not Florence Foster Jenkins' fault. Her father had disapproved of her marriage to Frank Jenkins and he stipulated in his will that no husband of Florence's should ever inherit his money. If she died childless the money which was in a trust was to be given to her step nephews and step nieces. Her own will seems to have disappeared. Although Bayfield and Madame Florence had a kind of common law wedding in a hotel it is not sure that she was actually divorced from Jenkins at that time - divorce carried a big stigma for a lady wanting to be included in high society back then. Apparently she always gave people the idea that she had been a widow - even before Jenkins death. This might explain why she kept his surname although she despised the man for what he had done to her. Cosme McMoon also applied to the court for a legacy and stated that Florence was in love with him , but he got nothing - so much for the codicil before going on stage at Carnegie in the film! Who knows if that ever happened? Anyway , it is a great film isn't it! She was such a character.

Jenkins gave her syphallis.

The fact that we remember a singer who can't sing says a lot about the human condition and the state of music.

Off the top of my head, at roughly the same time (perhaps in their heyday a little earlier): Dame Nellie Melba, Tetrazzini, Lotte Lehman, Lily Pons ... I could name more except I have a terrible memory for names! But I do get your point. She was unique and gave a great deal of joy to those who heard her sing, live or recorded.

I love your comment, Ken.

She was microtonal!

It’s says you’re a doctor but you have to be an idiot if you think this shit is genius. This is absolutely horrible!

@@mactown91210 If you cannot appreciate the musical depth and genius of this exquisite performance, then you are clearly not an intellectual. Begone, cloth-eared philistine!

@@mactown91210 try again

Well, that makes A LOT of people to "LOOOVE" then...!

Yeah

no she was just rich and delusional

@@ChrisP3000xhow would you say it then?

​@@hassansadhan7021🎯

I dont think she was aware of it. She gave performances mostly for people she considered to be close friends. She died about a week after giving her first public performance, which was lambasted by the public.

She was rich and got to do whatever she wanted. That's all.

The film I saw about her life indicated that she was infected with an STD from her husband, which destroyed her ability to recognize pitch. After I learned that I felt a great deal, more tolerant toward her situation.

@@buddycollier5056 oh wow, thank you so much for sharing this! i didn't know about that.

It's such a shame they used a horrible person to portray a nice one. Meryl Streep defends and excuses a child rapist.

Is it a book? Would mind telling the name, please?

@@GeorgiaGeorgette Who did Meryl defend?

I agree, thank you. When I heard about her and found her recordings few days ago, they made me feel only deep sadness. I don't know, how is it even possible to laugh at her (or at anyone who wants to sing). And knowledge of all troubles she met made it sadness even deeper. Also one need to remember that she was in age when professional singers finish their careers. No one knows how she sang when she was young and how she could sing more simple pieces. I think she could sound quite well if someone would give her a repertoir that would suit her

@@vlakrunn I heard once that she knew she wasn't a good singer, but given all the terrible stuff in her life she just thought "Damn it all, I'm going to hire a concert hall and sing and enjoy it. Even if nobody else does." I really hope that was the case.

you are writing nonsense. There is a level that when you cross, you become a laughing stock - this level Mrs. Jenkins continually exceeded. It is like putting an 80-year-old person on a basketball court and telling him to play, and after an unsuccessful match say that he even tried. I'm sorry, but let's not fall into absurdities. listening to her is a sign of perfidy. Because it is to enjoy (conscious or unconscious) someone's disability and make fun of it. Pierdifne.

The absurdity is you feeling obligated to call Darshana Fordhams experiences "nonsense".

@@rpra6435 It truly is dreadful.

I agree with you. I felt so bad watching the movie and seeing people laughing and mocking. Human being has to learn we should NEVER humiliate anyone.

Idunno but for her age singing is hard tho our voice deteriorates as we age

Ya but, you could say the same thing about anyone who's ever created anything, like a kid who did some paintings in grade school. That hypothetical kid is also more talented than those horrific she-pigs. Or the guy who made cool designs in my coffee last week. He too, is vastly more talented. Once, I saw a video about someone who made a painting out of a years worth of boogers. Yep, him too. You'd probably have to search a bit to find people more worthless than that entire vile family.

Exactly 👏👏👏👏👏

Nahh... She just has "Confidence" like them.. 🌈🌟✨💛

That is so true.

AB. B. and you wouldn’t know talent if it kicked you in your ass dumb fuck

Or she was probably just tone deaf. A lot of people are dummy

Possible... but most musicians develop tinnitus at some point. I have as well, but i can still pick out a tune.

I heard that too. Poor soul had a time of it, but as bad as she was, at least she did what she loved and can only be admired for it

A person is never cured of that disease. It can come to the surface again, even 20 years later, after the so called. curing of it.

@@bobdownes162 I didn't realize that, but there are so many diseases that stay dormant in the body too, like chicken pox, that can come out as shingles and Bell's Palsy and even worse.

Which was....tone deafness?

@@bobdownes162 Penicillin kills syphilis

@@millers3888 But the iinitial effects of the illness reoccure 20 years later, attacking the organs of the body.

A. Aalto ok since you know so much, probably you can share a picture of her grave an something that can backup what you wrote is fair isn’t ?

@@rhinestone105 She is buried in the family vault in Wilkes-Barre. Do some research and you will find a photo of it.

awh

@A. Aalto "People may say I CAN'T sing, etc". Get it right before you criticize others.

@A. Aalto Calm down.

More like pathetically enduring.

And that's why no one told her she was terrible...

Marion Hermannsen She must have been loved... and that is the greatest gift of all. ♥️🌹♥️

Marion Hermannsen Which Meryl Streep did a wonderful job portraying.

It's the William Hung effect

Ok, I literally lol'd.

It's true. I have her on CD. Only someone with serious training could reach such stratospheric awfulness.

Many years ago I found that wonderful LP of hers and took it home, and my mother and I listened to it and almost fell off the couch, we were laughing so hard. She obviously had a wonderful time putting on her concerts, and her audience had a wonderful time listening and trying not to laugh too openly. She brought joy to many, many music lovers. The only performance I can think of that rivals hers is Peter Ustinov's "Mock Mozart" and "Phony Folklore," and even he is not so sublime! A very bad singer myself, I admire her ability to exist in a reality of her own; I suppose her singing sounded great to her.

@@elainechubb971 “...her singing sounded great for her” That is the question

Check out Mrs. Miller on Merv Griffin show. It's also on RU-vid.

9/ 23 my first time to hear this Like the yoko ono of her time . AMAZING

That True Perfect Example : Kanye West.. Horrible..

When I read the post came to me the same name. Hilarious

Janet Diaz says an idiot that probably never listened to a hip-hop record....

js Did people actually pay for the singing, though? I thought she did her singing to raise money for charity. With the Carnegie Hall concert, I believe she rented the place herself and gave the tickets away, mostly to returning soldiers.

Coady Phoenix so true!

...and she is still famous. Good contemporary singers are lost to history, and she gets even more famous.

douglas carson the irony

I wonder if Colleen was partial inspired for her Miranda Sings character.

her husband actually paid the people to come, watch, and clap for her

Yes, and people paid to see the circus freaks too. ???

Don’t forget Mrs Miller! Her version of “The Girl from Ipanema” is … something else indeed.

What? Actually Tiny Tim is sooo good and talented

@@yaminoonna3218 Loved Tiny Tim.....he had a great voice! I remember a song he did where part of it was him imitating Dean Martin, and he actually sounded better than Dean Martin in tone and vibrato. It was great! Unfortunately, his schtick overshadowed his great voice and he couldn't find the "right place" in the music scene. Very sad... :-(

It's wonderful to hear she has a positive influence on you and so many others from so long ago

Autotune didn’t exist back then.

Amen! :)))

lone wrecche autotune was invented 1998. Earlier pitch correction methods were already invented 1975. But none are as old as 1940/1930.

lone wrecche if you’re a troll then aight 🤷‍♀️ and if you’re not then woosh for me.

Tardy for the party comes to mind

Willie Finn haha! I thought the same thing! The whole character is pretty much the Bucket woman 😁

Bouquet my friend, Bouquet. Richard mind the pedestrestrians.

Love the comparison and comments!! 😂😍

@@erickrocket it was Bucket until I married you

@rob yohn yes she is but Hyacinth Bouquet is not. 😂😢

lanzacash she may suck. But atleast she didnt give up on her dream. She is wealthy and confident.

@@reanpama3334 Her husband was wealthy and she was a screech owl.

Yudhistira Pratama Morning

Her voice didn't come from her gut but from behind, considerably lower down.

@lanzacash well said lol

You have got to see the movie. Every reason and every detail is shown and explained so well.

She was pretty damned mean to inflict that travesty of a voice on the public.

cwazy345 So are you.

@@1guitar12 and here we go...

@@jaygatsby135 She lived her dream, I deeply respect her for that. Also these people payed to see her.

@@lunasorree7177 and then some

Rebecca Mæd, you blew your cover with “near perfect pitch.”

LOL! Google never heard of you or your vocal "performances!"

@@1AnitaJ Google never heard of 99% of my life, doesn't change the fact that I exist. Those people searches think my mom is a Jew married to a man she divorced over 20 years ago.

@@1AnitaJ damn you are a bitter bitter person.

@@mishak38 LOL!!!

Do the angels share her unusual approach to rhythm and enunciation?

Yes, the angels, which pretend to be tone deaf.

You can check Madame Mari Lyn who is mostly on pitch, but still hilariously bad.

scorchedcandy lmaoooooo 😂😂😂

Meeeeee?

never listen to Yoko. Now I search for her on yt. She must be devastating ahahahaha

La Ciarla bahh not really in fact she is a kind-of self styled artist whose only fame in this world was to be John Lennon wife!

I listened to her right now. I'm making collection of unconventional artists. I'm downoading Yoko and Florence albums. A different kind of hobby. I decided to pump up their songs on my stereo on sunday morning at 7 o'clock. :D ahahahahahah

Thank you, Evita.

You bet your bottom dollar they would.

If you become famous enough for it, probably.

Well its hard, you'll have to practice bad singing every day!

just have to be real passionate about it

At 1:30 she throws the whole basket too! I had read about her doing so (apparently by accident) but given how she seems to grin at the audience afterward, I wonder if she may actually have done it intentionally as a joke - I've sometimes wondered whether Mme. Jenkins was a bit more self-aware than we all think...

I guess that is Cosme McMoon we see at the piano Spencer, as Miss Florence had sacked Edwin MacArthur several years before this. She caught him grinning at the audience while she was singing - so she was aware enough to realise that he was mocking her at least . I think she had a great deal of fun on stage. The movie reduces the time factor to a month or two as apparently Cosme had been playing for her for 5 or 6 years before the Carnegie Recital. All the best, Andy

I read if she got an encore she made Cosme go fetch the flowers and basket back so she could throw them again, lol! What a free spirit and fun she must have been.

She was shredded by the newspapers.. same thing

What money can buy

Pablo DeMode yes kind of like Justin Trudeau playing the part of a prime minister! He is nothing but a fraud!

Another troll? ho-hum.

Crazy? Passionate, I would say.

Haha yes!! Cheers to all us crazies😁

No. She was ill. Very very ill. She thought she was a brilliant singer and it didn't help that she surrounded herself with people who endorsed her as a singer and praised her 'talent'. To be honest, I really don't care. She loved music and that's what matters to me.

Why should we elevate someone who uses technology to sing the correct notes? Also, why do we even call these people singers? Singers should be able to sing. If not, they should be able to do something else.

3 years later and the music from today is even worse

Jennifer Lopez and her backup singers, uncredited while the great dancer Lopez lipsynchs...hmmm.

Если бы не деньги, небыло бы у неё не одного друга, не будьте наивны...

​@@ndjubilant8391 Jlo no es cantante precisamente, es una show wumen, y es muy trabajadora y perjeccionista, no ha sido nada fácil y gratis para ella, (aunque no soy su fan para nada, no me gusta su tipo de música, ni como canta, casi no se le oye, pero por lo menos tiene oído y tacto musical, siente la musica), como a esa estúpida ricachona, que daba asco verla y no tenía ni tan siquiera ni una pizca de oído musical, ni ritmo ni nada - era una tortura escucharla - lo has escuchado? Porque yo sí. Aquí en RU-vid ay muchos grabaciones suyas.

I was just thinking the same thing! Simon Cowell would've booted her off after her first line.😁 oh gosh how times have changed: everyone was so polite then!

He prejudiced Susan Boyle like he would FFJ (presumably) , rather

I am probably taking this to seriously ..but she doesn't have a nice voice ...that's actually not what classical singers would call 'voice'....its old ...(and i have a sense of humour ...i am just being honest) ...she never learned because she didn't have to...it takes years to learn ...but your voice ..is the control...legato ..all the breathing all the support the control THAT IS VOICE ...its like scratching on a violin with a bow and saying that is what a violin sounds like...its not is it?

Melania MoneyPenny Violins are god awful. Fiddles on the other hand...

you are writing nonsense. There is a level that when you cross, you become a laughing stock - this level Mrs. Jenkins continually exceeded. It is like putting an 80-year-old person on a basketball court and telling him to play, and after an unsuccessful match say that he even tried. I'm sorry, but let's not fall into absurdities. listening to her is a sign of perfidy. Because it is to enjoy (conscious or unconscious) someone's disability and make fun of it. Pierdifne.

Natasha Green Well, she had the MONEY to rent Carnegie, and for me, that only serves to heighten the bitter irony.

Not even the steps of Carnegie hall but the Lincoln memorial.

And THAT says a lot of us...

yeah .....i understand ...its not lost on me ...rich white lady buys what cant be bought..black talented lady can't have what's rightfully hers ..but there you go....

Marian Anderson sang many times at Carnegie Hall. Her signed picture is still on display.

Do you really think she had a singing style?

Same haha