What was with Jerry Lewis’s infatuation with Count Basie’s band? Something in the charts spoke to him and drove him to develop probably his best routines–watching Jerry pantomime to Basie’s music is infinitely better than watching Jerry be sentimental with children, right? The above is from ‘Cinderfella’ (directed by Frank
Here’s a clip from another marvelous Dick Cavett show featuring Sir John Gielgud giving a very thoughtful and sincere recounting of his work with Marlon Brando on the film version of ‘Julius Caesar’. There are no histrionics, no bad-temper revelations–in short, no dish. Just a very thoughtful and articulate actor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zk0eyKzp1c Here’s another of these fabulous old urban footage updates, this one supplied by the Youtube artist known as GuyJones. It features random street scenes of London in the swinging year of 1967. As always the added ambient sound helps immeasurably in bringing the footage to life and placing us
Enjoy a fat-ass Elmer Fudd and a still-in-development Bugs Bunny in “The Wabbit Who Came To Supper’ from 1942. This one features the opening credit frame with Bugs perched on the WB logo eating a carrot and giving a subtle look of disapproval at the audiences intrusion on his privacy,
Above are excerpts from the BBC Arena program, “The Peter Sellers Story”, a documentary directed by Peter Lydon featuring Seller’s home movies shot with his portable cameras. These excerpts covers the year when Sellers became famous in the US and the time he spent with Stanley Kubrick, making “Lolita” and
Listen to the most charming and amusing guest you can imagine (on TV, at a dinner party, anywhere), the great David Niven, as he recalls the director Edmund Goulding’s funeral. Goulding directed a young Niven (he gives Goulding credit for his first screen test) in the 1938 remake of ‘The
There really is no reason at all to rank any artists work in terms of which works are the ‘greatest’ (‘worst’ is unquestionably easier to determine). Honestly it’s simply a way to attract attention and provoke discussion/disagreement and thus readership/viewership. But in this case I make an exception. Despite the
Above I’ve posted a brief excerpt of an interview Orson Welles gave in 1958 after ostensibly seeing “Touch Of Evil” for the first time (at the Belgian World Film Festival no less) since the studio took the film away from him. This is Welles in his pre ”Oja Kodar/swinging 70s/move
Enjoy Tex Avery’s brilliant Conga-mad caricature-crazed 1941 ‘Hollywood Steps Out.’ Enough said.
Behold the only striptease (sort of) performed by Cyd Charisse, from the opening credits of the Dean Martin Matt Helm spoof ‘The Silencers’ (Phil Karlson, 1966). Once again it’s Cyd dancing, not singing. Cyd’s voice seems to have always been dubbed–by India Adams in ‘The Bandwagon’ and Carol Richards in