11th Annual 31 Days of Oscar on TCM- Page 2
11th Annual 31 Days of Oscar on TCM
#25Babes on Broadway
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.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#26Babes on Broadway
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#27Babes on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:15pmIsn'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.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#28Babes on Broadway
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.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#29Babes on Broadway
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?
#30Babes on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:26pmI don't know Sutton well enough, but I am realizing today that I find "young Judy" very attractive.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#31Babes on Broadway
Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:37pmIt'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."
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