11th Annual 31 Days of Oscar on TCM- Page 2

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 2:57pm

Apparently Marta Eggerth's breasts are too hot for the code, in "For Me and My Gal" when she and Gene are singing by the piano they have them blurred out.

That blackface scene, still, I am just...
woah.

[Patronus]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:00pm

Damn, I am sad I am going to miss that.

When this movie is over I'll just catch up and whatever in the background until Brigadoon comes on later.

ETA: In this "Blackface Finale" of Babes on Broadway, I just got a serious Judy Garland/Sutton Foster vibe that I've never thought of before. Updated On: 2/1/06 at 03:00 PM

[Kringas]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:15pm

Isn't it jarring that you can be watching a perfectly enjoyable old movie when suddenly a black face scene will come in and take you completely out of it? It's one of the reasons I don't watch the 1935 Show Boat as much as I'd like to.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:23pm

So true Kringas, up until that moment I was really loving it, then it was just a mess.
An interesting cultural and historical study though.

[Patronus]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:24pm

Exactly. The blackface scene really did take me out of it.

Anyone else get the Sutton Foster/Judy Garland vibe in that movie?

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:26pm

I don't know Sutton well enough, but I am realizing today that I find "young Judy" very attractive.

[lildogs]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:37pm

It's also a little disturbing to see the way black people are portrayed in The Three Stooges (I'm a big fan) or in Preston Sturges movies--of course, the argument could be made, as Hattie said, "I'd rather play a maid than be a maid."

[Patronus]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:37pm

As do I!