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Pert Kelton for Raoul Walsh’s THE BOWERY (1933)

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Sing and Like It

William A. Seiter’s SING AND LIKE IT (1934, Criterion Channel through month’s end) starts sluggishly. An argument scene between gangster Nat Pendleton and moll Pert Kelton doesn’t have the zing you’d expect from such expert players. In the middle of a safecracking heist, however, Pendleton hears amateur actress Zasu Pitts singing a horridly sentimental song, “Your Mother,” and the film and plot take off. Pitts was noted for her fluttery delivery, and she does it so well she can work countless changes on it, as the situation demands, and it’s always funny. She has to sing “Your Mother” three times, which would be a lot for such a bad song, but each time her delivery is different, reflecting the circumstances of each performance. Determined to make Pitts and the song a hit on Broadway, Pendleton strong arms a top producer into making her the star of the show he’s about to open. With Edward Everett Horton as the harried producer, the film becomes almost delirious. He was an ace at playing high-strung characters, which somehow makes his zingers about Pitts’ lack of talent even funnier. Joking is his only defense against the gangsters taking over his life. Pendleton has one of his henchmen create new jokes for the show and even figures out a way to get an audience on opening night. With the opening, the picture takes some pretty devastating shots at critics and audiences (the elder critic advises a younger one, “if every you have anything good to say about an actor or a playwright, wait ‘til he’s dead. Because you cannot possibly do any good…for a corpse.”). The film is a clear influence on Woody’ Allen’s BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (1994) and even has hints of THE PRODUCERS (1967). Ned Sparks is Pendleton’s second-in-command, with a delivery so dry he could make you laugh at a death notice. You can tell it’s a pre-Code film because Pendleton and Kelton are clearly living together while unmarried, and there are refences to Horton and his secretary’s both being gay.

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The Ballad of Louie the Louse (1959)

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The Music Man (1962)

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The Lost Honeymooners Sketch: "The Ring Salesman ". Airdate: March 28,1952. Running Time: 8 Minutes and 10 Seconds. This is from the Dumont Network's Calavacade of Stars. Note: This is the last surviving Dumont Network's Calavacade of Stars Sketch.

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Pert Kelton, 1924.

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Faithful in every detail to the original canteen on West 44th Street, the Stage Door Canteen radio program was broadcast from the stage of the CBS Radio Theater, just one block away. Before the microphone at 9.30 p.m. on April 2, 1943 are: front row, left to right: Marjorie Lawrence; three servicemen who won dogs during the broadcast; Raymond Paige (standing between the two soldiers): Bert Lytell, holding the mike; Helen Menken; Frank Fay; Lillian Gish, and Pert Kelton. The $3,100 a week paid by the Corn Products Company for the broadcast kept thousands of sandwiches and pieces of cake moving across the counter to the boys in the armed services who stopped by the Canteen.

Photo: Associated Press

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hotel Brevoort, Bohemians’ Outpost on Lexington

Long an entertaining trope for many a movie and stage play, the boarding house for theatrical performers offered an opportunity to gather together a colorful band of characters while at the same time providing them a supportive haven and family in times of trouble. Robert L. L. Warner and Pert Kelton constructed their own bohemian apartment hotel at 6326 Lexington Ave. for exactly the same…

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Jackie Gleason, Art Carney | Early Episode of The Honeymooners (1951) | ..

Four years before The Honeymooners became a series, Jackie Gleason created The Honeymooners for the TV show, Calvalcade Of Starrs.  This is one of these earliest episodes.  The Honeymooners began as a series of sketches on the Cavalcade Of Stears. The Honeymooners stars are Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden Art Carney as Ed Norton Pert Kelton as Alice Kramden Joyce Randolph As Trixie Norton You are invited to join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded, https://www.youtube.com/@Mr.PsVintageTVFans .

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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Pardon the temperament, Miss Snodgrass, and shake. From now on we’re sisters under the skin. You’re under mine already.”

Pert Kelton in Sing and Like It

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“The Honeymooners” on “Cavalcade of Stars” in 1952, Jackie Gleason and Pert Kelton as Ralph and Alice Kramden.

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Bed of Roses

If you don’t take it too seriously, Gregory La Cava’s BED OF ROSES (1933, TCM) is a lot of fun (as are many of his films, though there are some you can take seriously). Constance Bennett, in confessional mode, stars as a streetwalker who has to jump into the Mississippi after rolling a john. She ends up on Joel McCrea’s cotton barge, and it would be love at first sight if she didn’t rob him first. Then she cons her way into becoming a wealthy man’s mistress, sleeping in a bed decorated with…well, just guess. She throws herself into the lower-class schemer role, but the film’s real treat is Pert Kelton as her partner in crime. Kelton is, if anything, even more cynical than Bennett, so she gets all the best lines, some of them decidedly risqué (it’s a pre-Code film). She also gets a great Mae West moment when she tells Bennett’s rich lover she wishes he had a twin and then walks off with her hips moving in double time. If you don’t recognize Kelton, it because you probably know her best as Mrs. Paroo in THE MUSIC MAN (1962) or, if you’re really old, as the original Alice Kramden, later Alice’s mother and the Spic and Span cleaning lady. La Cava’ s direction has his usual light touch, so the comic scenes land well, and he stages a great, kinetic Mardi Gras scene. The supporting cast includes Jane Darwell as a prison matron and Franklin Pangborn, who steals his one scene as a prissy floorwalker.

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📺Bread | The Very First Honeymooners Episode (1951) Pert Kelton is Alice

This episode is the first-ever Honeymooners sketch.  This was originally broadcast on the Dumont Network  It includes the original introduction. The storyline is that Ralph Kramden a bus driver, (played by Jackie Gleason) comes home for dinner to find that there is no bread. Ralph's wife, Alice (played by Pert Kelton) asks Ralph to pick up some bread but, of course, Ralph does not want to pick up any bread. After lots of shouting, the breadbox and dinner went right out the window. An innocent bystander below, who happens to be a cop, (played by Art Carney) gets covered by a can of flour. The sketch is called "Bread", it aired on October 2, 1951.  It is about 6 and 1/2 minutes long.  This is one of the "Lost Episodes" which were not lost, they are not copyright protected,   Never Miss An Upload, Join the channel: https://cutt.ly/MrPsClassicTV

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Answer to Which actors who were considered too young or too old for a role and were ruled out for the part, still managed to get the role anyway? by Jay Valenci

Answer to Which actors who were considered too young or too old for a role and were ruled out for the part, still managed to get the role anyway? by Jay Valenci https://www.quora.com/Which-actors-who-were-considered-too-young-or-too-old-for-a-role-and-were-ruled-out-for-the-part-still-managed-to-get-the-role-anyway/answer/Jay-Valenci?ch=15&oid=1477743647556241&share=9ace669a&srid=7KVRc&target_type=answer

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Any real Tony Perkins fan knows that Tony had a real pair of lungs !! He did a couple short running broadway musicals, sang on SNL — listen to all of Greenwillow if you wanna throw up and cry and feel broken inside — he also sang in a TV version of Evening Primrose as well. He did a lot of French music too :]]

Here’s some tracks from Greenwillow that I like :]]

i was yesterday years old when i found out Anthony Perkins could literally sing. forever cursed to wish that he had played Javert in the musical now

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just listen to these:

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4.08 Miniature

Director: Walter Grauman

Director of Photography: Robert Pittack

“To the average person, a museum is a place of knowledge, a place of beauty and truth and wonder. Some people come to study, others to contemplate, others to look for the sheer joy of looking. Charley Parkes has his own reasons. He comes to the museum to get away from the world. It isn't really the sixty-cent cafeteria meal that has drawn him here every day, it's the fact that here in these strange, cool halls, he can be alone for a little while, really and truly alone.”