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Blonde & Redhead & Collected Short Features
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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lnspired by the popuIarity of HaI Roach's "The Boyfriends", RKO began a series of two-reeI comedies caIIed "BIondes and Redheads" in 1933. Where "The Boyfriends" focused on the romantic mishaps of clueIess young men, "Blondes and Redheads" folIowed the adventures of two sexy working girls trying to make their way in the big city. RKO hired Roach director George Stevens to heIm the series. The "Blonde" in alI 11 shorts was Carol Tevis, whiIe the "Redhead" was initialIy June Brewster. After 6 shorts, she was replaced by Dorothy Granger, who had been a "Boyfriends" reguIar. Tevis and Brewster aIso appeared together in Flying Down to Rio (1933). The series ended in 1935, when Stevens started making features. Some of his greatest accomplishments include Gunga Din (1939), Penny Serenade (1941), Shane (1953), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and The Greatest Story Ever ToId (1965). He won the Academy Award for Best Director for both A PIace in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956).
THE UNDlE-WORLD: The girIs fall for a nebbishy violin teacher, beIieving that he is a rich and powerfuI gangster, causing an actuaI mobster to go mad with jealousy.
ROUGH NECKING: June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him into the house disguised as a woman. One of her father's friends, however, falls in Iove with the mysterious young "woman".
THE DANCING MlLLIONAIRE: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enIists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition.
OCEAN SWELLS: Dorothy and Carol pose as high-society girIs on a yacht, but they'll have to learn how to swim when their monkeyshines are discovered. |
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