Hello Laurel & Hardy friends,
Our next film show is next Wednesday, 20th Nowonder at our usual NEW VENUE…..THE BRIDGE INN on Longmoor Lane, Sandiacre NG10 5LW commencing at the usual time of 7.30pm. We will be in the outside function room.
All are welcome and entry is free.
As we are slowly but surely approaching the Christmas and Panto season, this month I’ve entitled our Laurel & Hardy film show “What a Dame!”. We will be showing 4 of 7 films where Stan and/or Ollie dress up in drag and impersonate a member of the fairer sex. As a tease, I can say that 3 of these films will be from the Hal Roach studio; a silent short, a talkie short and a 1980s cut-down re-issue of a feature film for the home market entitled “Home Helps”!
Our main feature, however, is the Fox Film “Jitterbugs” from 1943. The 6 Laurel & Hardy Fox films don’t usually get good press from L&H aficionados, but from most accounts, this is one of their best not necessarily because of the comedy (where there are some very good original gags) but because of the Boys fine acting. We haven’t shown it for 8 years, so its certainly due an airing. Vivian Blaine plays the main female lead (excluding Stan’s short time in drag as her aunt Emily). Vivian is probably best known for her appearances on stage and in film of the musical “Guys and Dolls”. She also appeared on the Boys 1954 This is Your Life episode.
We will also be continuing our series of short cartoons from the 1930s. This month we intend to show “The Autograph Hunter” a 5 min Krazy Kat cartoon from 1934, featuring many characterisations of Hollywood celebrity at the Brown Derby Restaurant in LA, including Laurel & Hardy washing and dropping dishes in the restaurant’s kitchen years before they did it for real in Thicker than Water (1935) and Swiss Miss (1938)……could the cartoon have been the influence for the film gag ? See what you think.
We will have the usual raffle, any donations are always gratefully accepted.
I do still have a number of the “official” 2020 Laurel & Hardy calendars to sell. I will be bringing these down to the meeting this month and I can still sell them at last years price of £10 each. But in January, the price will have to go up 😉 !!
Our Christmas meeting is still in the Bridge Inn diary for Wednesday December 18th 7.30pm – I was given reasonable assurances that it was unlikely to be trumped by a much better offer, but if it was we’d be given at least 2 weeks notice….so assume this is the date. We plan to show the usual Christmas L&H short films, have a mini-buffet and yes we will be running our annual tent Kneesie Earsie Nosey ……the competition is open to all, so start practising your moves…..there’s less than 6 weeks to Christmas!
Hopefully, we’ll see you on Wednesday at the NEW VENUE. This is a family friendly show – all are very welcome from 4 to 104 years.
Fraternally Yours,
Dave T
(Grand Sheikh – Nottingham Beau Hunks tent)
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