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Post by Nalkarj on May 2, 2018 3:28:51 GMT
Obviously there’s a lot, so I’m going to start off with a (perhaps) little-known one, from my favorite of Laurel and Hardy’s later pictures…
The singer is Vivian Blaine, on whom I always had a bit of crush as a kid after seeing her in this. Lovely girl who deserved better parts than she ever received. She is a delight in this and has a great rapport with the hero, Bob Bailey (who’d later voice Johnny Dollar on the radio), which makes the cutaways to them far more enjoyable than most of the sappy romantic leads with whom the Boys had to share the screen late in their career.
It may not be a great musical sequence—we can put some more of those below—but I’ve always enjoyed it. Off to you!
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Post by mikef6 on May 2, 2018 14:02:23 GMT
Obviously there’s a lot, so I’m going to start off with a (perhaps) little-known one, from my favorite of Laurel and Hardy’s later pictures… The singer is Vivian Blaine, on whom I always had a bit of crush as a kid after seeing her in this. Lovely girl who deserved better parts than she ever received. She is a delight in this and has a great rapport with the hero, Bob Bailey (who’d later voice Johnny Dollar on the radio), which makes the cutaways to them far more enjoyable than most of the sappy romantic leads with whom the Boys had to share the screen late in their career. It may not be a great musical sequence—we can put some more of those below—but I’ve always enjoyed it. Off to you! And speaking of Laurel and Hardy: here is their delightful and funny dance from "Way Out West." I especially like the way Stan (at about 1:07 in the video) looks behind him at the very obvious rear projection then points it out to Ollie, who laughs.
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Post by maxwellperfect on May 2, 2018 14:11:58 GMT
This is lovely. From 'Thunderbirds are Go!' (1966)
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Post by Nalkarj on May 2, 2018 15:32:01 GMT
And speaking of Laurel and Hardy: here is their delightful and funny dance from "Way Out West." I especially like the way Stan (at about 1:07 in the video) looks behind him at the very obvious rear projection then points it out to Ollie, who laughs. Heh, I’d never considered that they might be chuckling about the back-projection before! Thanks for posting that, Mike: I was trying to decide between the one I posted and the two from Way Out West (yours and “On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine”). I love how the Boys (and their writers) use the musical moments; they’re the delightful character moments that fans love, but they don’t sacrifice comedy or greatly interrupt the story (as, at times, the Marxes’ harp and piano solos do). Everson once wrote (I hope I’m remembering this correctly) that Ollie’s look at the audience invites viewers in to join him, rather than taking them out of the story; and this seems something similar. Lots of nice moments like that in Laurel and Hardy, which may be one of the many reasons they’re so lovable. I did want to go with “The Moon Kissed the Mississippi,” though, if only to champion one of the Boys’ later flicks, which I think tend to be underrated at times.
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