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I could never get used to the stilted way in which he held and moved his arms, lol.
Rob
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My guess is that what worked for Bogey on the Broadway stage did not on the silver screen as far as his manner of the way he moved his arms which I agree appears rather affected.
Thanks to Howard who insisted that
he would only do the film if Bogey
played Mantee.
Such was the power or whatever Howard had that Warner complied.
Warner was very particular and not
many could tell him what to do.
But Jack knew a good thing when he saw it.
The Big Sleep (1945) first version was
brought back and redone with various scenes changed to promote the Bacall/Bogart chemistry after Jack received a letter from a friend who pointed out certain things about the
"The Big Sleep" as originally made.
The one shown on TCM is mostly the
1946 version.
I owned both and have edited my own by splicing scenes from both
for my own satisfaction!
I could never get used to the stilted way in which he held and moved his arms, lol.
Rob
I have read that Bogart wanted to convey the image of a man who had been in handcuffs and restraints so long his arms began to naturally hang that way.
Good man!We were there a couple of years ago...I got to lay face down on the sidewalk at the alley entrance spot where Johnny Dillinger took a bullet to the head by Charles Winstead in 1934.
My wife wasn't amused, and told me to get up, because it was embarrassing, lol. [emoji16]
Rob
We were there a couple of years ago...I got to lay face down on the sidewalk at the alley entrance spot where Johnny Dillinger took a bullet to the head by Charles Winstead in 1934.
My wife wasn't amused, and told me to get up, because it was embarrassing, lol. [emoji16]
Rob
That's a pretty old sign -- the design of Mr. Peanut is 1930s vintage, and that was a time when it was rare to see a neon sign in any color but red-orange.
To be strict in the terms, no neon sign is any color but red-orange -- that's the only color neon gas glows when energized -- so any sign using any other color of fluorescent gas is not actually *neon* sign.
What's always bothered me is the way Mr. Peanut's monocle has shifted back and forth between his right and left eye over his long lifetime. THe poor legume should really see his opthalomologist.