Yesterday, I watched the original "King Kong". It's really very good. I can recommend it if you're so interested. And I can most certainly tell you why Fay Wray got the part of Ann. She was very pretty, and a solid 1930s actress, but, man, could she scream. Full-throated and powerful, those screeches.
Sunday, I had watched "Duck Soup," my favorite from beginning-to-end Marx Brothers film. There are scenes, or moments, in all of the other films that I can never get enough of, but "Duck Soup" is top-notch throughout. Okay, there's an extremely racist joke. There's a troublesome musical number in "A Day at the Races," but has there been a better movie line than "Either he's dead or my watch has stopped"? "Swordfish" in "Horse Feathers, anyone? "Make that three hard-boiled eggs" in "Monkey Business"? "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas" in "Animal Crackers"? "Why a duck?" in "The Cocoanuts?
Both "King Kong" and "Duck Soup" came out in 1933. Ninety years ago. And they still work. If I reach 90, I hope I can say the same about myself.
2 comments:
I loved the Marx Brothers. May need to see if our library has any.
Years and years ago there was a Broadway musical called "A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_in_Hollywood_/_A_Night_in_the_Ukraine
You would have loved it.
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