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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on May 11, 2017 10:57:47 GMT
One that comes to my mind:
Freddie Bartholomew's extended cameo in the 1947 film Sepia Cinderella, a musical with a mostly African-American cast. Why he's in the film, I don't know, but it's an amusing sequence.
What are some other unusual/unexpected/random cameos in classic films?
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Post by Nalkarj on May 11, 2017 12:18:54 GMT
It's probably too obvious, but Bing Crosby's cameo as the executioner at the end of My Favorite Brunette is an absolute delight. |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on May 11, 2017 12:19:52 GMT
It's probably too obvious, but Bing Crosby's cameo as the executioner at the end of My Favorite Brunette is an absolute delight. That sounds awesome. |
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Post by Nalkarj on May 11, 2017 12:22:19 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on May 11, 2017 12:30:04 GMT
In generally the same vein, Oliver Hardy makes an unexpected cameo appearance in Frank Capra's Riding High.
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Post by mattgarth on May 11, 2017 14:46:18 GMT
Awed audience members Bing and Bob watching the high wire act at the circus in THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 11, 2017 14:52:26 GMT
Awed audience members Bing and Bob watching the high wire act at the circus in THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. Gee, what is it with Bing and Bob in cameos? We've got my example above, yours, the one in Martin and Lewis's Scared Stiff... |
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Post by mattgarth on May 11, 2017 15:04:22 GMT
Maybe those films were exits just off their ROAD pictures.
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Post by neurosturgeon on May 11, 2017 16:15:11 GMT
Two of my favorites are Walter Huston as the bartender "In This Our Life" and as Capt. Jacoby delivering the Black Bird in "The Maltese Falcon."
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Post by mikef6 on May 11, 2017 17:42:44 GMT
In the Martin and Lewis comedy “Scared Stiff” of 1953 (a remake of Bob Hope’s “Ghost Breakers” of 1940), Bob and Bing make, yes, another cameo. In the last shot (and joke) of the film, their appearance makes Dino and Jer scream and run for their lives.
Jack Benny is the vaudeville stand-up comedy act that is on before Dainty June and Her News Boys in “Gypsy” (1962). “What a ham,” says the stage manager. “Yeah,” says Mama Rose. “He’ll never get anywhere.”
“The Alphabet Murders” (1965) from Agatha Christie’s novel “The ABC Murders”: Tony Randall as Poirot going through a door as Margaret Rutherford (who plays Christie’s Miss Marple) is coming out. They stare at each other then pass without speaking. Before this film, the last time Poirot was on the big screen was 1934 when he was played by Austin Trevor in “Lord Edgeware Dies.” Trevor has a cameo/bit part as a butler in “The Alphabet Murders.”
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Post by teleadm on May 11, 2017 19:21:50 GMT
In another Bob Hope movie Alias Jesse James 1959, in it's final shootout nearly all TV-western stars at the time appears plus one old timer Gary Cooper . |
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Post by teleadm on May 11, 2017 20:04:45 GMT
It's probably too obvious, but Bing Crosby's cameo as the executioner at the end of My Favorite Brunette is an absolute delight. In the same movie Alan Ladd played the private detective Bob Hope pretends he is. |
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Post by bravomailer on May 11, 2017 20:13:02 GMT
Cassius Clay (he still used that name then) in Requiem for a Heavyweight.
Babe Ruth in Pride of the Yankees.
Well, it was unusual in those days.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 11, 2017 20:17:55 GMT
It's probably too obvious, but Bing Crosby's cameo as the executioner at the end of My Favorite Brunette is an absolute delight. In the same movie Alan Ladd played the private detective Bob Hope pretends he is. Yes, of course!--I'd forgotten that. And what a cast! Hope, of course, but also Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, and Lon Chaney, Jr. An enjoyable little picture, too--great fun. |
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 11, 2017 22:20:58 GMT
An unusual film that features a host of "unusual/unexpected/random cameos"
An aspiring young tennis champion Cane (Beau Bridges) falls in with the Hollywood crowd and finds himself being distracted by the life in the fast lane. The Christian Licorice Store (1971)
Tennis champion 'Butch' Bucholtz briefly appears in the dressing rooms after Cane's tournament.
The garrulous swanky party scene features many bit actors, producers and writers of the times, IMDb has the list.
Randomly, photographer Cynthia (Maud Adams) visits the Beverly Hills home of Jean Renoir and his wife, he gives a few words of wisdom.
Director Monte Hellman briefly appears as a filmmaker on a couple of occasions.
The highlight for me ... Uncredited, singer songwriter Tim Buckley randomly appears in Cynthia's studio and has under two minutes singing, and finishes off with the spoken lines... "aren't you going to take any pictures?"
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 26, 2017 6:32:38 GMT
My all time favorite cameo:
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 26, 2017 15:31:02 GMT
My all time favorite cameo: There was also Robert Duvall's cryptic, wordless cameo in the same film.  |
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 26, 2017 17:38:10 GMT
OK. I've got to be nuts (or just very forgetful). I saw this thread and thought, Hmm. Two great examples would be Bing Crosby's at the end of My Favorite Brunette and Oliver Hardy's in Riding High. Then I scrolled down and saw I'd posted exactly those two in May!
Say, I knew something about this thread seemed familiar...
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 26, 2017 22:13:53 GMT
OK. I've got to be nuts (or just very forgetful). I saw this thread and thought, Hmm. Two great examples would be Bing Crosby's at the end of My Favorite Brunette and Oliver Hardy's in Riding High . Then I scrolled down and saw I'd posted exactly those two in May! Say, I knew something about this thread seemed familiar... The same thing happened to me. lol |
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 26, 2017 23:19:44 GMT
...the most unforgettable cameo in a film was Alfred Hitchcock's appearing in a newspaper ad in "Lifeboat"
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