What do you know about moviemaking superstitions?
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 8:13 am
A Hollywood filick about Hollywood, It's A Great Feeling (Doris Day,
Jack Carson, et al) went by on TCM the other morning, while I did something else and gave the movie only partial attention. I stayed with it for the cameos, mostly. Anyway, a comment about "That's bad luck!" went by without me catching the context, but it got me to wondering. From the mid 1960s to the late 1980s, I spent some time occasionally in
an atmosphere where I got chided if I whistled backstage. And you had to say "break a leg" as apposed to saying "good luck". And a friend of mine would say "MacBeth" if he was in a classroom, but would mutter "the
Scottish Play" if he was in a theater.
In short, I have a nodding acquaintence with theater superstitions, and I've spent some time on Google giving myself a review. Also picked up some theories about reasons and origins. (The theory concerning backstage whistling is intriguing, and it seems plausable.) However, I have little information on superstitions concerning film making.
Maybe there are none worth noting, or maybe I just couldn't come up with
the keywords to get to them.
Does anyone in the Oasis membership have any information about this?
Any answers, any referral to sources, will be appreciated.
Jack Carson, et al) went by on TCM the other morning, while I did something else and gave the movie only partial attention. I stayed with it for the cameos, mostly. Anyway, a comment about "That's bad luck!" went by without me catching the context, but it got me to wondering. From the mid 1960s to the late 1980s, I spent some time occasionally in
an atmosphere where I got chided if I whistled backstage. And you had to say "break a leg" as apposed to saying "good luck". And a friend of mine would say "MacBeth" if he was in a classroom, but would mutter "the
Scottish Play" if he was in a theater.
In short, I have a nodding acquaintence with theater superstitions, and I've spent some time on Google giving myself a review. Also picked up some theories about reasons and origins. (The theory concerning backstage whistling is intriguing, and it seems plausable.) However, I have little information on superstitions concerning film making.
Maybe there are none worth noting, or maybe I just couldn't come up with
the keywords to get to them.
Does anyone in the Oasis membership have any information about this?
Any answers, any referral to sources, will be appreciated.