Continuing with our Rodney Dangerfield postings from yesterday and the day before, here’s Rodney on a 1981 special called ‘The Stars Salute The President’. His delivery is at top speed and one wonders how much Reagan was able to take in. He certainly gets Rodney’s last line, which has to
Yesterday I posted one of Rodney Dangerfield’s greatest appearances on Johnny Carson. Today we’re seeing him on The Mike Douglas Show in 1969. This is one of his earliest TV appearances (it’s shortly after his breakthrough opening for Dionne Warwick at The Sands) so it’s important to view it through
Every move, every twitch, every eye-pop of Rodney Dangerfield’s is a brilliant piece of method acting. Add to that the non-stop jokes and you have one of the truly ‘performative’ comics; he’s a man named Jacob Cohen (his real name) who, under the pseudonym ‘Jack Roy’ (his first stage name)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vphizLAWcMg ‘Ants In The Pantry’ (1936) is the 12th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Wednesday, December 11 through Saturday, December 14 1935 and was released on Thursday, February 6 1936. In my opinion, this is the film in which the pacing
This is a terrific four minute ‘blooper’ reel of Dean Martin and Frank What’s-his-name stumbling through a promo for the premiere of Dean’s soon-to-be smash TV variety show in 1965. Filmed prior to the taping–hence the live audience who are delighted with the hijinks–it shows the two at both their
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCf5VsRTp9U Here’s another clip from the mysterious Dean Martin Special I previously posted clips from at the top of the week. In this one he’s joined by the seventeen-year-old Fabian in a duet featuring four very of-the-moment chorines. I can’t say there’s much chemistry going on here between the two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0syJQgFSzI4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uUTWLNBl2k “The Sandpiper” (1965) starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is best known today for its theme song, Johnny Mandel and Paul Francis Webster’s immortal ‘The Shadow Of Your Smile’. The film has generally been dismissed as weak-tea soap opera with pretentious thematic references to the bird the film is
Yesterday I posted a wonderful and somewhat mysterious clip of Dean Martin and Don Knotts from a Dino TV special that aired on November 1, 1960. Today I’m sharing another clip from this rather obscure show featuring Frank Sinatra. It’s a parody of ‘This Is Your Life’ with Dino in
Here’s a terrific sketch from a 1959 Dean Martin special featuring Dean and Don Knotts who plays the role of Frank Sinatra…sort of. The two are terrific together and one can only speculate what might have been if they’d teamed up for a couple of movies. By this point Dino’s
‘All The World’s A Stooge’ is the 55th short subject made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Saturday, August 24th through Wednesday, August 28th 1940 and was released on Friday, May 16th 1941. The plot–such as it is–has to do with European child war refugees,
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