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Post by Isapop on Jul 6, 2021 15:18:03 GMT
Bud Abbott played two roles in The Time of Their Lives. Jerry Lewis played 7 brothers in The Family Jewels. Elsa Lanchester played Mary Shelley and the bride-to-be of the monster in Bride of Frankenstein (interesting premise there).
Norma Shearer played a family member of two different generations in Smilin' Through. Don Ameche played two roles in That Night in Rio. Several dual roles in Kansas and Oz in The Wizard of Oz, but Henry Morgan had several roles in the Emerald City itself. Hayley Mills as twin sisters in The Parent Trap.Buster Keaton in The Playhouse--pretty much everybody, including an entire theater audience. OMG, how could I have forgotten Elsa! ( Henry Morgan? Tsk, tsk)
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Post by marianne48 on Jul 6, 2021 15:23:51 GMT
Sorry, I always get Frank Morgan confused with Henry Travers.
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Post by Isapop on Jul 6, 2021 15:31:43 GMT
Sorry, I always get Frank Morgan confused with Henry Travers. I have the same problem with Morgan Freeman and Morgan Fairchild.
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 6, 2021 16:02:48 GMT
Louis Hayward as King Louis XIV and twin brother Philippe in THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (1939)
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Post by timshelboy on Jul 6, 2021 16:28:17 GMT
Have we got other examples of twin sets of twins ?.....  as the perfect ending to THE PALM BEACH STORY gave us .. twin Claudettes and Joels. 
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Post by marshamae on Jul 6, 2021 16:40:46 GMT
Sean Young as twin sisters in A KISS BEFORE DYING.
She won two razziés, one for the twin who was murdered and one for the twin who lived
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Post by Isapop on Jul 6, 2021 16:48:14 GMT
Have we got other examples of twin sets of twins ?..... as the perfect ending to THE PALM BEACH STORY gave us .. twin Claudettes and Joels.
And I saw that movie, too. How come you remembered it and I didn't?
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Post by Isapop on Jul 6, 2021 16:50:59 GMT
Sean Young as twin sisters in A KISS BEFORE DYING. She won two razziés, one for the twin who was murdered and one for the twin who lived (Putting on my stern face now) This list is for pre-1967 Hollywood films only.
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 6, 2021 16:51:19 GMT
Recalling an episode in an old B-Western series of the 1940s starring Buster Crabbe as hero 'Billy Carson.'
In PRAIRIE RUSTLERS, he's accused of committing stagecoach robberies actually being done by lookalike cousin 'Jim Slade.'
It was easy to tell them apart when in the same scene together.
Bad guy Jim talked tough and snarled a lot.
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Post by Isapop on Jul 6, 2021 16:58:50 GMT
Recalling an episode in an old B-Western series of the 1940s starring Buster Crabbe as hero 'Billy Carson.'
In PRAIRIE RUSTLERS, he's accused of committing stagecoach robberies actually being done by lookalike cousin 'Jim Slade.'
It was easy to tell them apart when in the same scene together.
Bad guy Jim talked tough and snarled a lot.
Apparently, Crabbe, as Billy Carson, pulled that same lookalike plot in The Drifter.www.imdb.com/title/tt0036779/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_46
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Post by Isapop on Jul 6, 2021 17:04:04 GMT
Thanks to Matt's insight into Buster Crabbe, I think we're starting to scrape the barrel at this point. But we're got a list of about 50 movies in 3 hours. Maybe there are some surprises still in the offing, but I'd say this is a proud accomplishment.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 6, 2021 19:38:16 GMT
Reference to snarling cowboys reminded me: Howard Keel as drunk, ill-tempered western star Smoky Callaway and his straight-off-the-ranch, "aw shucks, ma'am" doppelganger Stretch Barnes hired to take his place for personal appearances in Callaway Went Thataway. And for bottom-of-the-barrel, how 'bout John McGuire as twins Ralph and Paul Dickson in poverty row thriller Invisible Ghost? John who? Y'know, that guy from Stranger On the Third Floor:  |
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 6, 2021 19:59:48 GMT
Can't help it.
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Post by sostie on Jul 6, 2021 20:06:19 GMT
Have we got other examples of twin sets of twins ?..... as the perfect ending to THE PALM BEACH STORY gave us .. twin Claudettes and Joels.
Only more recently. Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin in Big Business (1988) 
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 6, 2021 20:11:35 GMT
In COME AND GET IT (1936), Frances Farmer (yep, THAT Frances) played Walter Brennan's wife 'Lolla' as well as their daughter -- also called 'Lolla.'
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Post by sostie on Jul 6, 2021 20:12:05 GMT
I knew Tony Randall had multiple roles in 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. Checking wiki, looks like he had seven! I guess the clue was in the title.
On the subject of George Pal films, both Laurence Harvey & Russ Tamblyn had two roles in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
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Post by timshelboy on Jul 6, 2021 20:38:07 GMT
Have we got other examples of twin sets of twins ?..... as the perfect ending to THE PALM BEACH STORY gave us .. twin Claudettes and Joels.
Only more recently. Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin in Big Business (1988)  This one predates both - Allan Jones & Joe Penner were the two sets of twins 
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Post by timshelboy on Jul 6, 2021 20:51:38 GMT
outside required timeframe but too good to ignore. Marthe Keller played mother and daughter in  |
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Post by timshelboy on Jul 6, 2021 21:01:55 GMT
Someone said something about "scraping the bottom of the barrel"... The diaboilcal  fits the bill for sure. One of the reasons the classic era ended in 1967. 
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 6, 2021 21:13:39 GMT
In the farfetched but stylish, well-produced and intricately plotted noir Hollow Triumph (aka The Scar), Paul Henreid as gang-leader-on-the-run John Muller takes the place of lookalike psychiatrist Dr. Bartok, going so far as to wield a scalpel on himself to duplicate a scar on the side of the doc's face.
It's a great deal of fun, elevated from its unlikely premise by fabulous John Alton cinematography, effective suspense and delicious dialogue, such as this exchange between Henreid and Joan Bennett:
EVELYN: It's very simple. You never expect anything, so you're never disappointed.
JOHN: You're a bitter little lady.
EVELYN: It's a bitter little world.
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