Here is a way-too-adorable-for-words clip of Groucho Marx and his youngest child Melinda performing a Gilbert and Sullivan duet on ‘You Bet Your Life’ from 1954. The song is ‘There Is Beauty In The Belly Of The Beast’ from ‘The Mikado’. I’ve never cared for G&S until watching this clip
Groucho Marx had three children, a boy and girl from his first marriage (the boy, author Arthur Marx, wrote two books and two plays about Groucho) and one girl, Melinda, from his second marriage to Kay Gorcey, ex-wife of ‘Bowery Boy’ Leo Gorcey. (Now there’s an odd case of indirect
‘Studio Stoops’ (1950) was the 126th short film made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Tuesday, February 22nd through Friday, February 25th 1949 and was released on Thursday, October 5th 1950, a full twenty months after it was made. Like all the Stooges shorts directed
The ridiculously fetching Paulette Goddard (or Paulette Goddard Chaplin Meredith Remarque) was a finalist for the role of Scarlett O’Hara in ‘Gone With The Wind’. David O. Selznick apparently liked her well enough to include her in the final grouping of possible Scarlett’s which included Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett and
Here’s a knockout dance number from the MGM 1947 version of ‘Good News’, featuring the great and mostly now-forgotten dancer/performer/personality/actress Joan McCracken. The original Broadway show, a big hit in the late 1920s, had long been on producer Arthur Freed’s list to adapt as a movie musical at MGM and
‘Slippery Silks’ was the 19th short subject made by the Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Wednesday, June 10th through Monday, June 15th, 1936 and released on Sunday, December 27th of that year. The film satirizes the world of women’s fashion in the Deco era and uses
Yesterday I posted the opening credit sequence from ‘The Delicate Delinquent’. Today’s offering is the musical credit sequence from his next movie ‘Rock-A-Bye Baby’ (1958), featuring the witty title song by Harry Warren and Sammy Cahn. A reader posited that the ‘Delicate Delinquent’ sequence might have been directed by Jerry
Here’s the fabulous opening credit sequence to Jerry Lewis’s first non-Dean Martin solo effort ‘The Delicate Delinquent’ (1957), written and directed by Don McGuire. The crisp black and white photography, the stylized pre-‘West Side Story’ fusion of violence presented as abstract dance, and Lewis’ peak pantomime performance combine to make
‘Rusty Romeos’ (1957) is the 181st short film made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed on Tuesday, February 12 and Wednesday, February 13, 1957 and released on Thursday, October 17th of that year. The film is a scene by scene, joke by joke, practically line by
Here’s an outstanding reel of home movie footage shot by Ira Gershwin featuring a veritable who’s who of 1930s cultural heroes. Much of it was filmed at the house that Ira and George shared at 1019 N. Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. (It was later occupied by Rosemary Clooney and