Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Posted: December 29th, 2009, 8:12 pm
Thank goodness for the DVR. I just fast-forwarded through the dull parts of Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) that was recently broadcast on TCM. I must be tone deaf, but I don't get what our ancestors found funny about Eddie Cantor, do you? The parts with Dennis Morgan and Joan Leslie weren't much better, I'm afraid, though I usually like these two. To me the most interesting oddball moment was seeing Mark Hellinger playing himself with the director of this chaotic compendium, David Butler. Did anyone else see this movie?
I liked the way that Bette Davis sang "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" and thought that the sequence featuring Humphrey Bogart being intimidated by S.Z. Sakall was quite amusing, but can't find any video clips of those, but I did find this one of Ann Sheridan singing a naughty ditty about love:
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This number "Ice Cold Katie" sung by Hattie McDaniel and featuring almost every African American performer in Hollywood at the time is great, with Hattie and company putting across an Arthur Schwartz and Frank Loesser song:
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This is an almost unrecognizable Olivia de Havilland and Ida Lupino with George Tobias skat singing a number. This number was filmed when the girls were playing the Bronte sisters in Devotion, so maybe this was fun?:
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John Garfield does "Blues in the Night" in his own way:
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Errol Flynn kids his heroic image and shows some unexpected versatility singing "That's What You Jolly Well Get". This is the main reason I watched the movie. It's fun:
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I liked the way that Bette Davis sang "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" and thought that the sequence featuring Humphrey Bogart being intimidated by S.Z. Sakall was quite amusing, but can't find any video clips of those, but I did find this one of Ann Sheridan singing a naughty ditty about love:
[youtube][/youtube]
This number "Ice Cold Katie" sung by Hattie McDaniel and featuring almost every African American performer in Hollywood at the time is great, with Hattie and company putting across an Arthur Schwartz and Frank Loesser song:
[youtube][/youtube]
This is an almost unrecognizable Olivia de Havilland and Ida Lupino with George Tobias skat singing a number. This number was filmed when the girls were playing the Bronte sisters in Devotion, so maybe this was fun?:
[youtube][/youtube]
John Garfield does "Blues in the Night" in his own way:
[youtube][/youtube]
Errol Flynn kids his heroic image and shows some unexpected versatility singing "That's What You Jolly Well Get". This is the main reason I watched the movie. It's fun:
[youtube][/youtube]