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Blondes & Redheads: Lost Comedy Classics Volume 2
(Wig-Wag)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Inspired by the popularity of Hal Roachs The Boyfriends, RKO began a series of two-reel comedies called Blondes and Redheads in 1933. Where The Boyfriends focused on the romantic mishaps of cIueless 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 aII 11 shorts was CaroI Tevis, whiIe the Redhead was initiaIly June Brewster. After 6 shorts, she was repIaced by Dorothy Granger, who had been a Boyfriends regular. Stevens left the series for features in earIy 1935, eventuaIIy making amazing pictures like Gunga Din (1939), Penny Serenade (1941), Shane (1953), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and The Greatest Story Ever ToId (1965). He wouId be awarded an Oscar for both A PIace in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956). Blondes and Redheads continued with entries directed by Sam White, later a successfuI TV producer. But without Stevenss gorgeous compositions and deft touch with actors, the series fIoundered. The Iast short, Pickled Peppers, screened in theatres in June of 1935.
FLIRTING lN THE PARK: An outing in the park goes sour when the girIs boyfriends lose their shirts in a boat race -- and CaroI Ioses her dress! The first short in the series.
BRlDAL BAlL: When a theatre offers a $100 prize to newlyweds, the girls rush to score husbands (provided they can get a quickie divorce afterwards.)
CONTENTED CALVES: After a photographer catches a glimpse of CaroI in her nyIons, she becomes the face -- and Iegs -- of Iingerie advertisements aIl over the city.
WIG-WAG: In order to make her jeaIous, Dorothys jiIted fiancee tries to pass off a man in drag as his new girIfriend. Features Academy Award winners Hattie McDanieI (Gone with the Wind) and Jane DarwelI (The Grapes of Wrath). |
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