Laurel & Hardy in Harlow
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Carol Lynley in Harlow (1965), one of the two competing Harlow biopics released a month apart, featured an appearance by actors portraying Laurel and Hardy and Al Jolson. The movie was filmed in Electronovision (basically a film of a video production.) Never commercially released in any home video format, the movie was a wider aspect ratio, which is why actors are cut off on the sides in this clip.
I first saw Caroly Lynley in "The Poseidon Adventure" when it was first released and for a long time thought she was British. She did an excellent job portraying Nonnie and hasn't gotten the recognition she deserves. Carol is great at acting without words and I think she would have been a terrific silent-film actress.
Apparently, they beat Frank Zappa's 200 Motels which was also shot in video transferred to 35mm film in 1970.
Oddly enough, Ginger here looks like Catherine O'Hara as her in some angles
the black guy was my favorite. lol!
Ginger Rogers could have been a great character actress. She is very funny in this scene.
Thank you for uploading. Carol Lynley unfortunately sounds nothing like Jean Harlow who had a lovely drawl to her speech and had much more gusto. Carol actually sounds like an English aristocrat here LOL
The scene depicted was supposedly the one seen in "Double Whoopee" (1929), which was Jean Harlow's first screen appearance. But this version was altered from the original- Stan and Ollie are doormen at a swanky hotel, when Jean arrives in a taxi. Ollie pours on his overripe Southern charm in greeting her, but Stan is having none of it. Ollie tells him to close the taxi door, and he does.....on the back of Jean's dress, which rips off, as Ollie escorts her into the hotel. Too late to catch the torn part of it as the cab pulls away, Stan tries to warn Ollie that he's escorting a half-naked girl into a lobby full of people.......
Carol Lynley is fine as Jean Harlow, but L&H absolutely pale in comparison to the originals. Stan was still alive in February of 1965. Hopefully this isn't what killed him.
Beware of ANY supposed "film biography" that features "Laurel & Hardy" and "Al Jolson" in the same studio commissary!!
Because the screenwriter didn't know any better?
Barry I. Grauman him nor the one time "agent" who wrote the book
The acting and dialogue were lackluster to say the least.
Hmm.
Ginger's last feature film performance. She's great in this movie as Mama Jean. Too bad this film has a low-budgety feel to it. Shooting on film would have been better than the experimental 'Electronovision' that they used.
+Chris “retrogurlaz” Mc Agreed. I think this was one of Ginger's finest performances. She looked terrific as well. Not the greatest movie in the world, but it's shame Ginger's wonderful performance isn't better known.
"Electronovision" was essentially a videotape recording transferred to 35mm "kinescope" film. It was also used for the rock concert features "The T.A.M.I. Show" (1964) and "The Big T.N.T. Show" (1966). The reason it was used was because the producer wanted to beat Paramount's version of "Harlow" to movie theaters ahead of its June 1965 release. So this "film" was taped in a little over a week at Desilu Studios, and released that May.
That was perfectly awful.