Chic Everlasting.

Carole, bemused by Bing’s cool tact on the set of We’re Not Dressing, played off it between takes in a series of practical jokes. Bing enjoyed her dedicated swearing - “colorful epithets” he described as “good, clean, and lusty. Her swear words weren’t obscene. They were gusty and eloquent. They resounded, they bounced. They had honest zing!” With amazement, he described her dash to the ocean after inadvertently dousing herself with wintergreen: “She appeared practically unclothed,” he wrote. She occasionally enlivened the set by flashing him. While breakfasting at Catalina’s St. Catherine Hotel, where elderly regulars stared disapprovingly at the movieclan, she “came slinking in” and loudly cried, “Bing! Did I leave my nightie in your room last night?” For two days she sent Bing a one-word telegram every fifteen minutes or so: the word was NOW. “The fact that she could make us think of her as being a good guy rather than a sexy mamma is one of those unbelievable manifestations impossible to explain,” Bing wrote. “She was the least prudish person I’ve ever known.”