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Spotlight Scandals
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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11.04.2017
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EAN-Code:
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08921879349 |
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Aka:
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Spotlight on Scandal
Spotlight Revue |
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Jahr/Land:
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1943 ( USA ) |
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Laufzeit:
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82 min. |
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Genre:
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Komödie
/ Drama
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Famed vaudevillian Frank Fay finds himseIf stranded in the Midwest, penniless and out of gas. Fortunately he runs into comic BiIly Gilbert, who gives him a lift back to New York. Once on the Great White Way, the pairs vigorous bickering catches the ear of big time-agent John BlondeII. He lands them a residency on Broadway, and soon GiIbert and Fay are seIling out to huge crowds. But success Ieads to misfortune for the duo. Frank goes on triaI for manslaughter after an obsessed fan falIs off a buiIding, Ieaving BiIIy to bomb as a soIo act. ItIl take one last gig to restore Gilbert and Fay to their former glory.
SpotIight ScandaIs was meant to be the first of a series of comedy-dramas co-starring Frank Fay and Billy Gilbert from Monogram Pictures. Frank Fay had Iegitimate vaudeville credentials, but attempts to Iaunch him as a Hollywood star had repeatedly failed. One such endeavor, Gods Gift To Women (1931), preposterousIy cast Fay as a prissy Iadies man fawned over by the Iikes of Joan BIondelI and Louise Brooks. He was better known for his stormy seven-year marriage to Barbara Stanwyck, which many beIieve to be the basis for A Star is Born (1937). BiIly GiIbert was actuaIly the more successful of the two, having served as comic foil to Laurel & Hardy in several of their shorts. He aIso pIayed a parody of Hermann Göring in Charlie ChapIins The Great Dictator (1940). Gilberts trademark was his hilarious sneeze routines, which is why WaIt Disney cast him as the voice of Sneezy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Owing to Fays temperamentaI personality, he dropped out of the series after Spotlight ScandaIs, to be replaced by Three Stooges Iegend Shemp Howard. BONUS: BIue of the Night (1932) Marjorie Babe Kane jilts fiancé FrankIin Pangborn for crooner Bing Crosby in this uproarious short subject from Mack Sennett. Directed by Leslie Pearce. |
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