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LOVELY!!! •LOVE ME TONIGHT (1932), •HARRY ROY's FLOOR SHOW (1952), •CHOOSING YOUR MARRIAGE PARTNER (1952), •PIERRE (1975), •FOR SCENTIMENTAL REASONS (1949), •OLD MOTHER HUBBARD (1935), •DARLING, DO YOU YOU LOVE ME? (1968), •LOVE ME TONIGHT (1932)
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1st. Quartile
1st. Quartile
FEBRUARY
AD 2006
Monday 06th
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LOVELY!!! 
•HARRY ROY's FLOOR SHOW (1952),
Harry Roy performs a love song in a Cabaret Night Club, featuring a dance sequence influenced by BUSBY BERKELEY routines. Unidentified tune, two female dancers and another unidentified tune, two male dancers, one in black-face. Soundies. Prod: RCM Productions, Inc. Starring: Harry Roy's Line of Nimble Nifties, and Harry Roy's Popular Orchestra. 7 mins. ALC
•CHOOSING YOUR MARRIAGE PARTNER (1952),
Joe is trying to decide which of two young women would make the better wife!?! Several important factors in selecting a marriage partner are illustrated; emotional maturity, family background, harmony of personality, philosophy of life and common interests. Prod: Coronet Instructional Films.13 mins. ALC
•PIERRE (1975),
An all-too-long-absent Splodge! favourite, concerning Pierre, the little boy who just don't care! The song is performed by the stoopendously great
Carol King! And the cartoon itself - an excerpt from a longer film, "REALLY ROSIE" - is DIRECTED by Maurice Sendak (WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE), and adapted from his Nutshell Kids stories, this one, in full title being PIERRE: A CAUTIONARY TALE, IN FIVE CHAPTERS AND A PROLOGUE. Acquaint yourself with the whole (sorry) saga here. 6 mins. ALC
•FOR SCENTIMENTAL REASONS (1949),
After PEPE LE PEW breaks into a perfume shop, the owner sends in a convenient female cat to remove the mal-d'amour-fou skonk. Winner of the 1949 Academy Award™ for best animated short. Prod Co: Warner Brothers Pictures. Credits: Dir: CHUCK JONES. Wr: Michael Maltese. Anim: Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan, Ken Harris, Phil Monroe. 7 mins. NFVLS
•OLD MOTHER HUBBARD (1935),
I love bad celebrity caricatures, and if you want a bad celebrity caricature, Celebrity Pictures was the studio that could
DELIVER! Yes, here's one of my favourite UB IWERKS cartoons, the inspiringly uplifting ("Cheer up - be a regularrrrr guyyyyyy!") OLD MOTHER HUBBARD. Natch, it's a take on the old poem about OMH and her dog, but turns it on its proverbial ear, making it strangely musical (or musically strange, if you prefer). Prod. Co. Celebrity Pictures. Dir/Anim: UB IWERKS. 6 mins. RM
•DARLING, DO YOU YOU LOVE ME? (1968),
Robert Whitaker The Good Doctor
Anti-romance comic opera from the freak margins of expat flower power. Bolshie brainiac & then-time fatal femme GERMAINE GREER is maybe type-cast in her role as unrelenting banshee harridan. Driving herself into a frenzy, demanding that her lover (Alister Burke) declare his affections, then pursues and assaults him with cries of "Darling, do you love me?" until he expires under her stranglehold. Sourced from MARTIN SHARP's OZ magazine strip of the same name. Lensed by OZ magazine co-founder and famous BEATLES photographer, BOB WHITAKER. 4 mins. ALC (note: iSOSceles, and others).
Anti-romance comic opera from the freak margins of expat flower power. Bolshie brainiac & then-time fatal femme GERMAINE GREER is maybe type-cast in her role as unrelenting banshee harridan. Driving herself into a frenzy, demanding that her lover (Alister Burke) declare his affections, then pursues and assaults him with cries of "Darling, do you love me?" until he expires under her stranglehold. Sourced from MARTIN SHARP's OZ magazine strip of the same name. Lensed by OZ magazine co-founder and famous BEATLES photographer, BOB WHITAKER. 4 mins. ALC (note: iSOSceles, and others).
AND FEATURING:
•LOVE ME TONIGHT (1932),
While most directors in Hollywood were still attempting to adapt proscenium stage productions to movie musicals, Rouben Mamoulian was pioneering a fluid form of film operetta that has rarely been matched.
LOVE ME TONIGHT reprises Ernst Lubitsch’s previous pairing of French actor MAURICE CHEVALIER with singer-dancer JEANETTE MACDONALD - THE LOVE PARADE (1929) - in a romantic musical comedy in which Mamoulian’s innovative techniques revitalize a familiar storyline.
Poseur Chevalier, cast as the "best tailor in Paris", is out to collect a debt from a deadbeat Vicomte (CHARLIE RUGGLES), but carries off an aristocratic masquerade long enough to hotly pursue princess MacDonald - all to rapturous RODGERS and HART melodies, energetically rendered to catch the ear of the haughty royal.
The young director ROUBEN MAMOULIAN worked closely with songwriters RODGERS and HART, who were known for their clever and risqué lyrics. With its naughty jokes and double entendres, sex and seduction (a favoured MAMOULIAN theme) is the focus of the film. When
the film was re-released in 1949, the Production Code Administration forced Paramount to remove some suggestive dialogue and lyrics; unfortunately, none of the excised scenes are known to have survived!
LOVE ME TONIGHT is MAMOULIAN's masterpiece, a magical film that unfolds like a beautifully choreographed dance. It is also the film that is noted for the first use of the zoom lens in cinema.
If you asked "noted authorities," critics, film writers, and just plain musical nuts to agree on the ultimate musical, LOVE ME TONIGHT will top nearly every list. They might prefer a Judy Garland vehicle, adore a BUSBY BERKELEY spectacular, sway to memories of Fred and Ginger, or become misty-eyed over a MacDonald-Eddy operetta, but it is LOVE ME TONIGHT that all musicals are measured to and from, like some kind of international film musical dateline.
Unlike every other film hit, LOVE ME TONIGHT has no imitators because, well, it is inimitable.
Stage director Ruben MAMOULIAN had created a classic with his first film, APPLAUSE (1929), with HELEN MORGAN. He had done only two films since, CITY STREETS and DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, both in 1931. The latter won an Oscar
™ for Fredric March. Over the years, MAMOULIAN's stage successes included both Porgy (the drama) and PORGY AND BESS (the GERSHWIN opera), Marco Millions, OKLAHOMA! and CAROUSEL.LOVE ME TONIGHT offers a top-notch cast and a superb original score by RODGERS and HART, each song advancing the story line. It represents the fusion of centuries of stage artistry and artifice with the unique infant, film. Like nearly every
classic, its whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The characters are actually caricatures, two-dimensional representations of the stock stage personalities of operetta, yet the human qualities they mirror are so strong that we must identify with each of them. And, talk about funny, if you enjoy hilariousness (hilarity just doesn't seem to convey it), then you have to see this film.
The princess in the tower is a pathetic remnant of aristocracy, doomed never again to marry because there is no one left who is her social equal. (Compare this to the situation of predominantly female European royal houses after World War I, who could find no princes for their eligible daughters.) The commoner is a hard-working tailor, poor because the aristocracy cannot pay its bills (social unrest, Bolshevism, unionism - all forces of the 1930s). The three witches, or fairy godmothers of legend, are the maiden
aunties in the tower, providing a Greek chorus of comment and response to the action. Add to this the irascible uncle, the booby suitor, the playboy comedian, and the nymphomaniac comedienne, all stock characters.
All these elements were brought together under the direction of a man with the strength of steel and the lightness of a flower, and called LOVE ME TONIGHT. Based on a play by Leopold Marchand and Paul Armont. Prod Co: Paramount Pictures. Prod/Dir: ROUBEN MAMOULIAN. Scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Waldemar Young, George Marion, Jr. Phot: Victor Milner. Mus/Lyr: RICHARD RODGERSand LORENZ HART. Costm. Des: EDITH HEAD (uncredited). Starring: MAURICE CHEVALIER, Jeanette MacDonald, CHARLIE RUGGLES, Charles Butterworth, MYRNA LOY, C. AUBREY SMITH, GEORGE 'GABBY' HAYES. 89 mins. NFVLS
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