EVERY NGHT AT EIGHT was a movie Patsy Kelly was in along with Alice Faye, Frances Langford, and George Raft.
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Showing posts with label Alice Faye. Show all posts
Sunday, January 27, 2019
EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT
EVERY NGHT AT EIGHT was a movie Patsy Kelly was in along with Alice Faye, Frances Langford, and George Raft.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Carol Tevis And SING, BABY, SING
When Carol Tevis got a part in the movie SING, BABY, SING, some of the publicity suggested that this would be the first appearance of the voice of "Minnie Mouse" in a live-action film.
Reblogged from http://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2012/09/1936-cartoon-year-in-review.html
June 10, 1936Carol Tevis, who speaks the lines for Minnie Mouse in the Walt Disney cartoon, will be seen in "Sing, Baby, Sing," musical now in production at 20th Century-Fox, with Adolphe Menjou, Ted Healy, Alice Faye and Patsy Kelly in the featured cast.
Actually Carol Tevis had appeared in movies since 1931, and the "Blondes And Redheads" series began in 1933. And ultimately her scenes in SING, BABY, SING were cut, so that she wasn't in it anyway.
SING, BABY, SING:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028255/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
Carol Tevis:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19370307&id=g8YuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VNQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5693,1032921
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255985/m1/2/
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Lyda Roberti In The Fan Magazines
Some Lyda Roberti items from the thirties.
Two-page spread shows a movie scene being shot with Miriam Hopkins and Lyda Roberti.
Lyda Roberti is the blonde with the dress trimmed with feathers near the right side of the photo on this page. It says so on the next page.
COLLEGE RHYTHM
GEORGE WHITE 1935 SCANDALS
ROAD SHOW ( 1937 publicity photos )
Roach evidently had big hopes for Lyda Roberti, but heart trouble interfered with her ability to work, and she only made a few films for him. ROAD SHOW wouldn't be made until 1941, with Carole Landis.
WIDE OPEN FACES ( 1938 )
Lyda Roberti with Joe E. Brown at lower right.
ROAD SHOW
http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=26897
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Friday, March 21, 2014
YOU NASTY MAN Sheet Music
Alice Faye sang YOU NASTY MAN in her first movie, GEORGE WHITE SCANDALS, and her picture is on the sheet music. Pictures of costars Jimmy Durante and Rudy Vallee are on it as well.
"Don't ever do that!" as well as "You nasty man!" were catchphrases of comedian Joe Penner.
Alice Faye went on to great success and still has a following today. But Penner's popularity didn't last.
Alice Faye:
http://www.alicefaye.com/
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Joe Penner
Joe Penner was a household name in the thirties. He had his own radio show and made movies with Lucille Ball, Betty Grable, and Lyda Roberti. They used him as a character in animated cartoons, and everyone got the joke. But people seeing him in the cartoons don't usually get the joke today.
Joe Penner
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radio
Penner developed his catch phrases in burlesque. In 1932 he toured in a vaudeville revue with Eddie Tamblyn, father of Russ. He was launched on his successful radio career by Rudy Vallée, appearances which led to his own Sunday evening half-hour, The Baker's Broadcast, which began on the Blue Network October 8, 1933. Penner was a zany comic, noted for his famed catchphrase, "Wanna buy a duck?", and his low hyuck-hyuck laugh. Penner's other memorable catchphrase, often triggered by someone else's double entendre remark, was, "You naaaasss-ty man!"He was voted radio's top comedian in 1934, but a 1935 dispute with the ad agency over the show's format resulted in Penner quitting The Baker's Broadcast on June 30, 1935. Vox Pop began as a summer replacement series for Penner in 1935. A year later, he returned with The Joe Penner Show, which began airing October 4, 1936 on CBS, sponsored by Cocomalt.
Films
His films include College Rhythm (1934), New Faces of 1937 (1937), The Day the Bookies Wept (1939) and Millionaire Playboy (1940). He was caricatured by Tex Avery and Friz Freleng in the musical cartoon, "My Green Fedora", "Can You Take It?" a "Popeye the Sailor" cartoon (Max Fleischer for Paramount), and several pictures starring the bumbling stooge Egghead. He also made a cameo in the Disney cartoon "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood" in which he says, "Wanna buy a duck?", and then shows Donald Duck on a plate.
The ultimate Depression-era zany was Joe Penner. A forgotten performer today to most, and little more than a footnote to the average OTR [old-time radio] fan, Penner was a national craze in 1933–34. There is no deep social meaning in his comedy, no shades of subtlety — just utter slapstick foolishness, delivered in an endearingly simpering style that's the closest thing the 1930s had to Pee-wee Herman. An added attraction was Penner's in-character singing each week of a whimsical novelty song, specially written to suit his style. Like Pearl, however, Penner was doomed to early decline by the sheer repetitiveness of his format, even though he remained very popular with children right up to the end of his radio career.[1]
Death
Penner died of heart failure in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1941, aged 36.References
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Joe Penner was more famous as a radio comedian, but he also made some movies. In 1934, Joe Penner was in COLLEGE RHYTHM with Lyda Roberti. And of course he had the duck with him.
COLLEGE RHYTHM sheet music, with Lyda Roberti and Joe Penner on it.
Towards the end it has another one, "Don't ever do that!"
Joe Penner characters appeared in a number of animated cartoons.
MY GREEN FEDORA
A rabbit sings a song as he dances a dance like Joe Penner's vaudeville routine. The baby bunny in this cartoon does Penner's goofy laugh.
MOTHER GOOSE GOES HOLLYWOOD
Donald Duck in place of Joe Penner's usual duck.
DAFFY DUCK MEETS EGGHEAD
"Egghead" was given Joe Penner's voice and looked something like him, although it's also been suggested that Harry Langdon ( who played a character named "Egghead" in HALLELUJAH I'M A BUM ) was a possible source of inspiration.* Egghead later became Elmer Fudd.
Joe Penner In Comic Books
Joe Penner and his duck appeared as characters in this 1938 comic book. Cocomalt was the sponsor of his radio program, THE JOE PENNER SHOW.
This page was reprinted in MOLLY O'DAY in 1945, four years after Penner had died. That was probably the last time that he appeared in the comics.
Joe Penner with Lyda Roberti in COLLEGE RHYTHM.
Alice Faye sings OH YOU NASTY MAN in GEORGE WHITE SCANDALS.
DAFFY DUCK & EGGHEAD:
http://likelylooneymostlymerrie.blogspot.com/2012/08/188-daffy-duck-and-egghead-1938.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daffy_Duck_%26_Egghead
Egghead and Harry Langdon:
http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=4759
MOLLY O'DAY:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2014/02/molly-oday.html
MY GREEN FEDORA:
http://cartoonsof1935.blogspot.com/2012/05/066-my-green-fedora.html
Joe Penner:
http://craighodgkins.com/joepenner/index.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672101/bio
http://thirdbanana.blogspot.com/2006/02/wanna-buy-duck.html
Lyda Roberti:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/03/lyda-roberti.html
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Patsy Kelly Photos
Here are some more Patsy Kelly pictures. She made many other movies besides the Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly series, but I don't think I saw many of the other movies.
1935 publicity photo.
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THE GIRL FROM MISSOURI ( 1934 )
With Jean Harlow.
EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT
EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT
With Frances Langford, Alice Faye, and George Raft.
GO INTO YOUR DANCE ( 1935 )
With Al Jolson
NOBODY'S BABY
With the Avalon Boys and Lyda Roberti.
NOBODY'S BABY
With Lyda Roberti.
NOBODY'S BABY
Mae Whitehead ( left ) used to be Thelma Todd's maid. After her employer's death, Mae went to work for Patsy Kelly. The hairdresser is Peggy Zardo.
PICK A STAR ( 1937 )
With Lyda Roberti, Rosina Lawrence, Jack Haley, Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy.
THE COWBOY AND THE LADY ( 1938 )
A new "Todd and Kelly" resulted from teaming Mabel Todd with Patsy Kelly.
PIGSKIN PARADE ( 1936 )
With Jack Haley, Stuart Erwin, Judy Garland, Johnny Downs, and Betty Grable. This was Judy Garland's first appearance in a feature film.
THERE GOES MY HEART
Patsy Kelly, Norman Z. Mcleod, and Virginia Bruce between shots.
THE COUNTESS OF MONTE CRISTO
With Fay Wray of KING KONG fame.
MY SON, THE HERO
Carol Hughes is best remembered for having played Dale Arden in the last Flash Gordon serial.
DANGER - WOMEN AT WORK
Patsy Kelly and this blonde look as if they're supposed to be another version of the Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly team.
Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly films:
http://www.lordheath.com/index.php?p=1_1328_Todd-Kelly-series
Patsy Kelly.com:
http://www.patsykelly.com/
Patsy Kelly:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446763/
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