Though I can't confirm it, apparently the actors were celebrity-dubbed in this scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtXOr6LmZWA •••••••••••••••••••••••••••¥¥¥¥¥•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Well-Known Example of Not-Quite Dubbing: The British Joan Barry - not the American Joan Barry - spoke off-cam...

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Tue Feb 05, 2019 4:58 pm

Who's going to play the Maxwell now that Mel Blanc is dead?
Bob

The Curse of the Pink Panther- which Blake Edwards increasingly became when he didn't abandon the series- featured Rich Little performing- for his second Panther film- a voice he'd yet to master. It was released after Niven's death, and might have been more interesting if they'd looped Niven's dialo...

A thread on Famous- then, or since- actors’ voices coming out of other actors’ mouths Because of accents, illness, foreign dubbing, comic intent, etc .... dubbed singing examples - too numerous to list ? - maybe should not be included unless when done for comic effect. The idea for this thread came ...

This was embedded on the Ken Levine blog

..... and why the secrecy ? This thread likely is pointless, since a private collector with lost films might rather remain tight-lipped and anonymous, for fear of being hounded or robbed, and those who know of a rarity in another’s possession, or in an archive’s collection, might not want to betray ...

His Wikipedia Page

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Sat May 16, 2020 4:54 pm

Always a willing clown in ensemble.

An Oscar Winning Best Picture
(With an Oscar Winning Best Song)

Alternatively, for a profit- if it could be done safely for the film and those who handle it- why not try a Kickstarter, to get it 4K scanned and then issued as a Blu-ray or DVD, without music, with each backer getting a copy, and then donate the film to the LOC with restrictions? If you seek not pr...

NYT Obit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wg2FVV7ZOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9L0c5bHGXg Barry Gordon Jayne Mansfield Henry Kulky Richard Collier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf_qJRwM4CI Tom Ewell Jayne Mansfield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_cmEr2bw1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Vq9YKm-lL._AA300_.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51DyKCFa+dL._AA300_.jpg Directed by William Beaudine: An Overview By James L. Neibaur Hardcover/Paperback (April 30, 2020) “William Beaudine is one of the most misrepresented di...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNDhlMWFhYTMtY2Q5MS00YWJhLWFiN2MtYjJjOTFmOWU5MGRmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDUyOTUyNQ@@._V1_UY1200_CR89,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg Osterman Variety Gags ............................. And Obit https://ia802501.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/26/items/variety1...

Lindsay and Crouse (State of The Union- Pulitzer Prize; Life With Father- Broadway’s Longest-Running Non-Musical; Anything Goes and The Sound of Music- The Books for the Musicals) could also be gleeful ghouls: Crouse wrote a non-fiction book on murders, and the team doctored and produced Arsenic and...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/514S9zSFiQL.jpg Downriver: A Tale of Moving Pictures Before Hollywood By Evan Anderson Paperback/eBook (September 20, 2017) Downriver: A Tale of Moving Pictures Before Hollywood" is a new novel set during the early days of cinema. The lead character is fictional,...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Poster_-_Forty_Little_Mothers_03.jpg/120px-Poster_-_Forty_Little_Mothers_03.jpg 1. Clowns was Judy Holliday’s last film credit 2. To have been a SAG president, one almost had to have shared a past (or future) credit with another SAG Presiden...

Another rare appearance ... an unfinished program on Swinging London with Orson Welles. [/size] All of the soon-to-be Goodies had a healthy hand in the unfinished Welles London TV program https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FoYFQ35-L._AA120_.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/SOa_...

He had a heart attack on the 19th and died on the 23rd. Letters from Stan has a missive from the 20th ! Does anyone have info on his final months of medical treatment? Was it common then to treat mouth infections with x-rays, or could he have had mouth cancer and not been told? Certainly, many pract...

Currently/recently on eBay. His billions of letters would make a great printed book, except the repetition and small talk likely would be edited away into oblivion Talk Show acquaintances; Portland at Pantages- and the Empress with Karno show; Fanchon and Marco; Fox Theatre opening https://i.ebayimg...

Hal Willner Wikipedia Entry “Hal Willner (April 5, 1956 – April 6, 2020) was an American music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events. He was best known for assembling tribute albums and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles (jazz, classical, rock, Tin Pan ...

John Prine......NYT notice

Forrest Compton Credits Hollywood Reporter Story

William Wolf “He was a film critic for Cue and New York magazines in the 1960s-1980s. Later, he was the president of the Drama Desk and the chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle. Wolf served two years as Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle and was a member of the National Society of...

Bucky Pizzarelli

https://genericradio.com/originals/objects/moving-picture-show-frontcover-small.jpg The Moving Picture Show: A Diary of 100 Years of Moviegoing in Grapevine Texas By James Lawrence Groebe Trade Paperback (April 2020) "A few miles north of DFW International Airport, in historic downtown Grapevine Te...

Adam Schlesinger Adam Lyons Schlesinger (October 31, 1967 – April 1, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and guitarist. He won three Emmys, a Grammy, and the ASCAP Pop Music Award, and was nominated for Oscar, Tony and Golden Globe Awards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajNTI...

Over at Silent Comedy Mafia, Edward Watz has been providing a wonderful selection of Mark Hellinger “Broadway” Comic strips - fumetti , or “photo comics,” featuring NYC stage performers from the 1920s and 1930s. Here’s one he posted. http://www.silentcomedymafia.com/download/file.php?id=230&sid=508c...

Kathleen Clifford (1887-1962), a comic/actor/male impersonator, in vaudeville and Broadway - long after her film career (once co-starring opposite Fairbanks) had ended- wrote It's April. . . Remember? , a novel about her time in Hollywood. https://pictures.abebooks.com/MONROESTAHRBKS/22590226437.jp...

There's ......FUNNY PAPER ('23) with Joe Rock... Joe Rock seems to have topped Carter De Haven’s Character Studies, at a fraction of the cost. In the first few minutes, “Ben Turpin“ “Charlie Chaplin“ “Harold Lloyd“ “Buster Keaton“ “Larry Semon“ “Mutt and Jeff“ “Johnny Ray“ (Jiggs) “Margaret Culling...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81AZrz7EpFL._AA900_.jpg The Cameraman (1928) Spite Marriage (1929) So Funny It Hurt: Keaton & MGM (2004) Blu-Ray (June 16, 2020) Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in The Cameraman—the first film that the silent-screen legend made a...

Nice to read about Parsons! Also of interest: Fanchon Royer by Lisle Foote Women Film Pioneers Project - Columbia University As has been noted on this site , Denny’s “Fast and Furious” - a 1927 film (but also possibly the name of an especially purgative takeout offering from the restaurant chain)- h...