Also, a little bonus this week: Since you can't have a proper old-time movie experience without showing a short first, here's one of my favorite Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts - Free Wheeling
Enjoy!
This Italian is watching Goodfellas on VH1 :)
But it’s not the same without the cursing. they seem like polite gangsters lol
the HOW AM I FUNNY scene is on
Ping!
Gloria Jean was my sponsor when I received my First Holy Communion and Confirmation in California in 1986. Last I heard, she was living in Hawaii. She must be around 95 years old now.
Franklin Pangborn was a hunk of a man.
My favorite film of his is It’s A Gift. I couldn’t find the complete movie on YouTube, but here are some of the best scenes.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=it%27s+a+gift++fields
I always laugh at the line Fields gives to Gloria Jean after she threatens to quit school: “You don’t want to grow up and be dumb like ZaSu Pitts, do you?” Great chase finale.
Although truthfully, I prefer Fields’ earlier Paramount vehicles, with their backdrops that often exuded that sort of small-town americana that they did... “You’re Telling Me,” “It’s a Gift,” “Tillie and Gus,” and such. Or even, “The Old-Fashioned Way” with its comedic turn-of-the-century depiction of the old “10-20-30” stage melodramas, which proliferated across the country in the days right before nickelodeons took over.
W.C. Fields scoffed at the idea that comedy could be written down and plotted out. Just about all of his movies were slight on plot and heavy on sight gags and snarky remarks from Fields.
Fields in the diner with the waitress is gold!
Beanbag? It becomes very exciting at times. I saw the championships played in Paris; many people were killed...
Thank you!