tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post1366900046363204500..comments2024-01-22T17:42:46.416+01:00Comments on Lolita's Classics: Basil Rathbone - a sellout?Lolita of the Classicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03596876234508882958noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-20596291212647565402009-04-15T18:18:00.000+02:002009-04-15T18:18:00.000+02:00LOL! Olsen and Johnson PLUS Martha Raye and Mischa...LOL! Olsen and Johnson PLUS Martha Raye and Mischa Auer were a killer team!Gloriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00895285900033034259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-81432020918981231752009-04-14T21:48:00.000+02:002009-04-14T21:48:00.000+02:00Some how I can't picture Basil!..drinking BEER!(ev...Some how I can't picture Basil!..drinking BEER!(even tho we've seen him do it with our own eyes!)..He holds that Bourbon glass like a true gentleman tho..<br />You should definately check out the Crazy House video as well as the Hellzapoppin' vid on You Tube if you want a good laugh...Olsen and Johnson were way funnier than Abbott and Costello at Universal..Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165402182512034384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-91265818404265752682009-04-14T12:07:00.000+02:002009-04-14T12:07:00.000+02:00Samuel Wilson:
Thanks a lot! I love these old comm...Samuel Wilson:<br />Thanks a lot! I love these old commercial ads, they are always so simple and brilliant! Very amusing. Let me know if you plan to publish any ads you find in the mentioned magazines, I would love to see them!<br />Haha, lovely quote! Crazy House is something I haven't had my hands on, unfortunately. I'll have to do something about it!<br /><br />Gloria:<br />You're quite right. And don't forget Mason in "Lolita"! My favourite Mason character.<br /><br />Christopher:<br />Haha, so the commercials worked on you? I'd like some of those Fatima cigarettes, myself. They seem classy.<br />I think he ate his shredded wheat with beer.Lolita of the Classicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03596876234508882958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-69051804996960742172009-04-14T04:19:00.000+02:002009-04-14T04:19:00.000+02:00makes me want a beer..and a glass of Borboun..and ...makes me want a beer..and a glass of Borboun..and a smoke in my Swing King..and my tooth Powder..and my shreded wheat before rushing off to the Studio in the morning....I wonder if 'olmes eats his shreaded wheat dry?..or with milk and sugar?..Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165402182512034384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-78989438758146278682009-04-14T00:50:00.000+02:002009-04-14T00:50:00.000+02:00To be fair to Ustinov, he also directed "Billy Bud...To be fair to Ustinov, he also directed "Billy Budd", but, on the other hand, his filmography's got a good deal of "films made to pay the bills"... <BR/><BR/>My other favourite examples of actors which have been looked down upon by snotty colleagues are James Mason (who was considered to "have wasted himself in Hollywood") and George Sanders (who was considered to hire his talents all too easily)... And yet, their roles in "A Star is Born", "Five Fingers" (Mason) or "All About Eve" (Sanders) don't look to me as "waste" at all...Gloriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00895285900033034259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-71677592499605792742009-04-13T22:16:00.000+02:002009-04-13T22:16:00.000+02:00Lolita, that's a beautiful compendium of advertisi...Lolita, that's a beautiful compendium of advertising art. It makes me want to break into my own collection of Life, Look, Saturday Evening Post, etc. to see if I can find similar stuff. As for Rathbone's good humor and willingness to send himself up, check out his cameo in <I>Crazy House</I>, in which Holmes and Watson apparently dwell on the Universal lot. Bruce rushes in to tell Rathbone some awful news, but Basil tells it to him instead: "Olsen and Johnson are coming." Bruce: "But how do you know?" Rathbone: "I am Sherlock Holmes. I know everything."Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-27236621390380584752009-04-13T20:44:00.000+02:002009-04-13T20:44:00.000+02:00Gloria:Haha, that was a quite ironical comparison!...Gloria:<BR/>Haha, that was a quite ironical comparison! It's always so easy to blame others, and not contribute much yourself. Night of the Hunter is a masterpiece!<BR/>I'm glad to hear someone else that don't ridicule Rathbone for doing commercials! As you said - he was quite glad to spend money himself!<BR/><BR/>Kate Gabrielle:<BR/>Yes, they are lovely! Haha. You can't do that if you don't have a sense of humour, right?Lolita of the Classicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03596876234508882958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-13256174995743050832009-04-13T19:20:00.000+02:002009-04-13T19:20:00.000+02:00I love the Skippy peanut butter ad & the Van H...I love the Skippy peanut butter ad & the Van Heusen Century shirts-- those before and after pictures are priceless!Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026961018017690353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-88229657130865986612009-04-13T16:28:00.000+02:002009-04-13T16:28:00.000+02:00I don't think we should blame it on Rathbone's wif...I don't think we should blame it on Rathbone's wife, for what I've read, Rathbone loved to give parties and be an host.<BR/><BR/>Also, for what I see in e-bay, all actors working in hollywood would do commercials every then and now, so I don't think that, in that sense, Rathbone was selling himself much more than others.<BR/><BR/>Curiously, the worse sellouts are done by people who pretend to be "pure". I recall Peter Ustinov commenting on Spartacus, and being judgemental about Charles laughton having sold himself to Hollywood. Of course, Laughton's work in films helped him to play in Brecht's galileo, or plays by Shaw... so one thinks that Ustinos should have been less judgemental... particularly when one peeks at his own filmography.<BR/><BR/>To put it short: Laughton directed "The Night of the Hunter"... and Ustinov? "Romanoff and Juliet"Gloriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00895285900033034259noreply@blogger.com