Happy 102nd birthday, Suzy Delair!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Rick Lanham]

Lady Paname is available on Apple Music, if anyone else has a subscription. Listening right now.

Rick

[Frame Rate]

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.)