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- TriviaVitaphone production reel #2577
- Quotes
Jimmy Conlin, Himself: Will you marry me?
Myrtle Glass, Herself: No, I won't marry you.
Jimmy Conlin, Himself: Do you know anybody that will marry me?
Myrtle Glass, Herself: I can ask father.
Jimmy Conlin, Himself: You think your father will marry me?
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Jimmy Conlin -- best remembered as a minor player in Preston Sturges' stock company in the 1940s -- had a long career in vaudeville, appearing with wife Myrtle Glass.
This is a filmed record of that act and unlike a lot of Vitaphone shorts of the period which have no movement and little in the way of good jokes and delivery, this one is very funny, with a roving camera, some stooges disrupting events behind the curtain and a wild set of visual gags: as Myrtle tries to sing "Morning Noon and Night", Jimmy, as her pugnacious accompanist, acts like a combination of Victor Borge trying not to play the piano and Chico Marx, trying to figure out how to end this song.
You can see a lot of the movement to 'crazy comedy' in the early thirties, the violence and non-sequiturs of the Marx Brothers, Wheeler and Woolsey and the like. Vitaphone made a lot of these movies which were no more than a performance of a vaudeville act and a lot of them are a waste of time. This one is not. See it if you can
This is a filmed record of that act and unlike a lot of Vitaphone shorts of the period which have no movement and little in the way of good jokes and delivery, this one is very funny, with a roving camera, some stooges disrupting events behind the curtain and a wild set of visual gags: as Myrtle tries to sing "Morning Noon and Night", Jimmy, as her pugnacious accompanist, acts like a combination of Victor Borge trying not to play the piano and Chico Marx, trying to figure out how to end this song.
You can see a lot of the movement to 'crazy comedy' in the early thirties, the violence and non-sequiturs of the Marx Brothers, Wheeler and Woolsey and the like. Vitaphone made a lot of these movies which were no more than a performance of a vaudeville act and a lot of them are a waste of time. This one is not. See it if you can
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- boblipton
- Jul 20, 2010
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- Conlin and Glass in Sharps and Flats
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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What was the official certification given to Sharps and Flats (1928) in the United States?
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