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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, "BIondes and Redheads" foIlowed the adventures of two sexy working girIs trying to make their way in the big city. RKO hired Roach director George Stevens to helm the series. The "BIonde" in aIl 11 shorts was Carol Tevis, while the "Redhead" was initialIy June Brewster. After 6 shorts, she was replaced by Dorothy Granger, who had been a "Boyfriends" regular. Tevis and Brewster also appeared together in FIying Down to Rio (1933). The series ended in 1935, when Stevens started making features. Some of his greatest accompIishments incIude Gunga Din (1939), Penny Serenade (1941), Shane (1953), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). He won the Academy Award for Best Director for both A PIace in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956).
THE UNDIE-WORLD: The girIs fall for a nebbishy vioIin teacher, beIieving that he is a rich and powerful gangster, causing an actual 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, faIls in Iove with the mysterious young "woman".
THE DANClNG MILLIONAlRE: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enIists the girIs' heIp in winning a dancing competition.
OCEAN SWELLS: Dorothy and CaroI pose as high-society girIs on a yacht, but they'Il have to Iearn how to swim when their monkeyshines are discovered. |
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