Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (Sons Of The Desert)
Herbert Marshall (Trouble In Paradise) (here, with Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus)
The Marx Brothers (Horse Feathers and Duck Soup)
Michel Simon (Boudu Saved From Drowning)
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Nominees For Best Actor Of 1932-33 (Comedy/Musical)
James Cagney (Footlight Parade)
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (Sons Of The Desert)
Herbert Marshall (Trouble In Paradise) (here, with Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus)
The Marx Brothers (Horse Feathers and Duck Soup)
Michel Simon (Boudu Saved From Drowning)
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (Sons Of The Desert)
Herbert Marshall (Trouble In Paradise) (here, with Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus)
The Marx Brothers (Horse Feathers and Duck Soup)
Michel Simon (Boudu Saved From Drowning)
Doesn't Cagney have some competition here?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't [didn't] Cagney have a brother who was a Long Island / Jackson Heights dentist?
And speaking of dentists -- who's the Chinese dentist here?
Yes, a little known fact for those of you who haven't seen Don Rickles ten times -- Rickles's father asked his dentist, a certain Dr. Cagney in New York, if his brother Jim could give some advice to his son Don, who wanted to be an actor. So next thing you know, the young Don Rickles is standing in a dentist's office with superstar James Cagney.
ReplyDelete"Rejection, rejection and more rejection -- can you take it, kid?"
Apparently he could because now Rickles is known to millions of kids the world over as "Mr. Potato Head" ...
And, yes, there was a Chinese-born dentist in the audience last Saturday night whom Rickles invited up on stage. A good show, for those of you who wonder. At 84, Rickles is physically frail but mentally sharp and this weekend, he was dialed in.
Do you consider Private Life of Henry VIII a drama? Because I had Laughton as my winner for Best Actor - Comedy for 32-33.
ReplyDeleteDo you consider Private Life of Henry VIII a drama? Because I had Laughton as my winner for Best Actor - Comedy for 32-33.
ReplyDeleteWell, I nominated it as a drama, although you're right, it really is a comedy, and a very funny one at that. I mean, any movie that sells itself with the line "He gave his wives a pain in the neck and did his necking with an axe" is not one that takes itself too seriously.
I think I allowed myself to be led astray by the costumes ...
This whole drama/comedy split was a last minute idea and I blew it with Laughton. What I ought to do is rejigger the nominees for actor -- add Charles Laughton to the nominees for comedy, and maybe add an actor or two to drama to balance out that category.
And why not? If I can't edit my own blog, whose can I edit?
Thanks for keeping me on my toes. To be honest, I have Laughton second in either category, third overall, so it won't affect the final winners, but it's important to get the details right. Otherwise, Katie-Bar-The-Door gives me what for ...
ReplyDeleteActually, now Charles Laughton is back in the drama category where he began -- I'm just adding Island Of Lost Souls to The Private Life Of Henry VIII, which tilts the mix back more toward drama than comedy ...
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