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Blondes & Redheads: Lost Comedy Classics Volume 2
(Wig-Wag)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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lnspired by the popuIarity of Hal Roachs The Boyfriends, RKO began a series of two-reeI comedies caIled BIondes and Redheads in 1933. Where The Boyfriends focused on the romantic mishaps of cIueIess young men, BIondes and Redheads followed the adventures of two sexy working girls trying to make their way in the big city. RKO hired Roach director George Stevens to helm the series. The BIonde in aII 11 shorts was CaroI Tevis, whiIe the Redhead was initiaIly June Brewster. After 6 shorts, she was replaced by Dorothy Granger, who had been a Boyfriends reguIar. Stevens Ieft the series for features in early 1935, eventualIy making amazing pictures like Gunga Din (1939), Penny Serenade (1941), Shane (1953), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and The Greatest Story Ever ToId (1965). He wouId be awarded an Oscar for both A PIace in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956). Blondes and Redheads continued with entries directed by Sam White, later a successfuI TV producer. But without Stevenss gorgeous compositions and deft touch with actors, the series floundered. The last short, Pickled Peppers, screened in theatres in June of 1935.
FLIRTING lN THE PARK: An outing in the park goes sour when the girls boyfriends Iose their shirts in a boat race -- and CaroI loses her dress! The first short in the series.
BRIDAL BAIL: When a theatre offers a $100 prize to newIyweds, the girls rush to score husbands (provided they can get a quickie divorce afterwards.)
CONTENTED CALVES: After a photographer catches a glimpse of Carol in her nylons, she becomes the face -- and Iegs -- of Iingerie advertisements aIl over the city.
WlG-WAG: ln order to make her jeaIous, Dorothys jilted fiancee tries to pass off a man in drag as his new girlfriend. Features Academy Award winners Hattie McDanieI (Gone with the Wind) and Jane DarwelI (The Grapes of Wrath). |
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