Talk:Perle Mesta

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Hostess with the mostest?

Another website says that Elsa Maxwell was the "hostess with the mostest".

http://www.clanmaxwellusa.com/elsa.htm

Is there something definitive as to the "real" "hostess with the mostest"?

Wanderer57 (talk) 12:19, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the statement from the Elsa Maxwell article (see the talk page). The Clan Maxwell Web site makes the statement, but doesn't state any basis for it. This article does. — WFinch (talk) 13:40, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Right and on What's My Line when Mesta guest starred as the famous mystery guest, they made it clear that Mesta is THE hostess. It was in the 1950s so they would likely know. MagnoliaSouth ^(talk) 15:59, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In any case, the phrase was probably popularised and remains widely known because of the song "The hostess with the mostes' on the ball" in Irving Berlin's musical comety Call Me Madam. (The inspiration for the main character in that show was Perle Mesta, as noted in the article here.) Ondewelle (talk) 11:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]