Posted on 01/16/2015 8:42:14 PM PST by SMCC1
Bogie, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Kay Francis, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, George Brent, Merle Oberon, Patricia Neal, Mickey Rooney, Jimmy Stewart
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Lots of good laughs! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for posting LOL! Back when you you couldn’t use the word “damn” unless it meant something that holds back water. Or the words like “ass” except when referring to a certain beast of burden or “craps” only when describing a game of chance.
Very cute! Thanks for sharing this.
Bump to watch in the morning
Outtakes are always fun. what can be as amusing or more is being live on stage and trying to improvise through a flubbed or missed line. Set and costume malfunctions also fall into this category. Malfunctioning props are also a great one too. I remember being on stage waiting for another actor to make an entrance. he misses his entrance. Now I’m on stage alone and all the dialogue is between me and this other actor. The set was an alley and I was supposed to be warming my hands over a burn barrel. So, being out there by myself i turn to the stage manager who is just offstage and not visible to the audience, and yell the name of the other character and say “come on over and warm yourself up! No, it’s in the alley!...no, to your left” fortunately the actor heard me yelling backstage and made his now quite late entrance. Fortunately the audience was none the wiser.
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Movie stars were movie stars back then. I won’t give up my rose-colored glasses.
They didn’t laugh at their own bloopers, they were angry at blowing their lines (and that it was recorded for posterity).
There’s a classic blooper reel out there that was compiled from the 1930’s through the late 1940’s, and you never heard such language! I wonder if it was shown in theaters or was for in house showings only.
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