Amazing Opening Musical Scene From Eddie Cantor's "The Kid From Spain" 1932
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Wonderful to see Betty, and of course the completely underrated Toby Wing? Why was she overlooked? Does anyone know? What a beautiful, sweet face!!
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@bluedoris88 : Indeed. That's teenaged Betty!
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the first girl looks like betty Grable?
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Very interesting to see Busby experiment with some ideas in this early piece.
He would later use the "getting out of bed" idea in Dames, the "walking round & then up stairs" in Only Have Eyes For You, & the "water patterns" in By a Waterfall. (He didn't quite get a proper overhead shot in this clip.
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Spoofed by Mel Brooks in "History of the World, Part I".
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At 1:00....Toby Wing! Yum!
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Isn't this what Muslim heaven is supposed to look like?
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It's not Lucille Ball. However, she did appear in Busby Berkeley's "Keep Young and Beautiful" and "Build a Little Home" numbers in the 1933 movie "Roman Scandals".
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@BusbyRocks1 I also spotted Lucille Ball (1:25-1:31) and Paulette Goddard (1:51)!
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@swallin19 Thanks- you obviously know your subject thoroughly!!
The sequence is discussed at length in Francesco Casetti's Inside the Gaze (1998)
billwashy 1 year ago
@billwashy
Thanks! The link won't post but if you Google
"Francesco Casetti Inside the Gaze the kid from spain" without quotes, the first link will take you that specific segment of the book that you mentioned. jfman
jfmanluke 1 year ago