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Happy 102nd birthday, Suzy Delair!
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 6:09 pm
by 1963jpl
I should have posted this yesterday, but Suzy celebrated her 102nd birthday on December 31, 2019!
She may be best known, at least in the USA, as Laurel and Hardy's costar in Atoll K.
Re: Happy 102nd birthday, Suzy Delair!
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:22 am
by Ed Watz
And Suzy's most likely "second-best known film" to American audiences would be THE MAD ADVENTURES OF "RABBI" JACOB (1973) starring Louis De Funès, which has recently been reissued in a stunning Blu-Ray restoration. Suzy looks virtually the same here as she did in ATOLL K.
Re: Happy 102nd birthday, Suzy Delair!
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 11:02 pm
by Silas
I have a Suzy Delair CD that includes a couple of Atoll K songs, one of them performed in front of a live audience. A nice L&H-related rarity. Aside from the unhealthy appearance of Stan, Atoll K is not a bad film and more interesting than most of their 1940s Fox output. Suzy is charming in it.
Re: Happy 102nd birthday, Suzy Delair!
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 6:28 pm
by 1963jpl
Silas, what is the name of the CD? I'd love to see if it is still available. Or maybe get it as a digital download.
Re: Happy 102nd birthday, Suzy Delair!
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:48 pm
by Silas
Lady Paname.
I believe the Atoll K tracks are Laissez-vous faire & Tu n’peux pas t’figurer. I also have a live performance of one of the songs but can't seem to locate it now.
Re: Happy 102nd birthday, Suzy Delair!
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 5:00 pm
by 1963jpl
Thank you!
The CD comes at a steep price on Amazon!
But I did find what appears to be a reissue as a digital download on iTunes.
Re: Happy 102nd birthday, Suzy Delair!
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 5:52 pm
by Rick Lanham
Lady Paname is available on Apple Music, if anyone else has a subscription. Listening right now.
Rick
Re: Happy 102nd birthday, Suzy Delair!
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:37 pm
by Frame Rate
Rick Lanham wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 5:52 pm
Lady Paname is available on Apple Music, if anyone else has a subscription. Listening right now.
Rick
Having just watched the LADY PANAME movie in celebration of the always delightful Suzy's
centenaire plus deux, we followed it up with a screening of MGM's BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD, since both are wonderfully detailed recreations of backstage life in early 20th Century vaudeville, albeit on opposite sides of "the Big Pond".
(And no, we did not, initially, recognize the heavily disguised Moe and Curly Howard in partner-roles eerily prescient of the falsetto-voiced "harbingers of doom" in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1956 play THE VISIT, but quite understandably left out of the 1964 film version.)