#Phil Silvers

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Conrad Veidt (The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The Man Who Laughs)— oh my god look at him in Caligari. I specifically said that he's from this because him as Cesare is just. MMMMM. he's so wet and sad and scrungly. and little. he's like a kitten left alone in a dark alley except he's also killed people (not his fault). something wrong with him (Cesare). as for Conrad himself. oh my god look at him... them big ole eyes and the walk of some fucking thing creature

Phil Silvers (Summer Stock)—this man has the single most expressive face in all of golden age hollywood (okay maybe second only to Donald O'Connor) and he is such a Perfect counterpart to Gene Kelly in Summer Stock. like, little baby queer lady me had such a soft spot for the funky little comic relief guys and he's the king of them all! his verse in "Dig For Your Dinner" [link] makes me laugh uncontrollably and every time i watch it, my brain plays "YOU GOTTA SEE YOUR DENTIST TWICE A YEAR" on loop for a solid week afterwards

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Conrad Veidt:

I mean just look at him. The wet cat energy. The ghostly eyes. He did the monster mash before anybody. Where would we be today without him, he even has one (1) song on spotify. I regularly forget he's dead and wonder what his next movie will be. He slays in any role. The Ultimate Skrunkle.

He's the ultimate scrungly to me, the basis for many of our scrungly guys today. he's so skinny and pale and he wears so much eye makeup

He was THE bisexual goth tumblr sexyman of early film. Seriously the old timey Tumblrinas would send him fanmail about wanting him to choke them. He inspired the designs for the Joker and Jafar,and was nicknamed the “Demon of the Silver Screen” for his horror roles. His first wife divorced him for crossdressing. Hitler sent him hate mail for speaking out about antisemitism. He really loved his wife and told the Germans to go fuck themselves when they threatened his job if he didn’t divorce her for being Jewish. Just look at me and tell me this guy isn’t scrungly he’s like a personification of the emo kid from Horton hears a who

[cw the below clip depicts assault/abduction and could be scary for some viewers]

Phil Silvers:

"it's hard to hold the screen against don knotts, but phil manages."

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(1957)

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Phil Silvers and Carmen Miranda in a publicity shot for SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS (1944), directed by Lewis Seiler.

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The Boatniks, 1970

[dayniac]

Doris gets a foot rub from Phil Silvers between scenes on the Lucky Me set.

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phil silvers saying "we're cooked!" in you're in the army now (1941)

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Robert Cummings, Doris Day, and Phil Silvers pose in matching horn-rimmed eyeglasses while sitting in folding chairs on the set of director Jack Donohue's film, 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒚 𝑴𝒆 in (1954).

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[oldshowbiz]

Canadian artist Jack Reppen did Hirschfeld-esque illustrations for the Toronto Star in the late 1950s.

[gatutor]

Phil Silvers-Carmen Miranda "If i´m lucky" 1946, de Lewis Seiler.

[kwebtv]

TV Guide -  October 5 - 11, 1963

Phil Silvers (born Phillip Silver; May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) Entertainer and comedy actor, known as “The King of Chutzpah.” He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S. Army post in which he played Master Sergeant Ernest (Ernie) Bilko.

In the 1963–1964 television season, he appeared as Harry Grafton, a factory foreman interested in get-rich-quick schemes, much like the previous Bilko character, in CBS’s 30-episode The New Phil Silvers Show, with co-stars Stafford Repp, Herbie Faye, Buddy Lester, Elena Verdugo as his sister, Audrey, and her children, played by Ronnie Dapo and Sandy Descher.

Silvers also guested on The Beverly Hillbillies, and various TV variety shows such as The Carol Burnett Show, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, and The Dean Martin Show. Perhaps Silvers’ most memorable guest appearance was as curmudgeonly Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba in an episode (titled The Producer) on Gilligan’s Island (broadcast in 1966), where he and the castaways performed a musical version of Hamlet. (Wikipedia)

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Phil Silvers rehearsing as “Genius” in Cover Girl (1944).

Here, he’s “a genius at everything but minding his own business.” as he interrupts the two lovers, Rusty & Danny (Rita Huayworth & Gene Kelly)

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"The King of Chutzpah,” Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985)

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Advertisement for Camel cigarettes featuring an endorsement by Phil Silvers (1956).

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Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 - November 1, 1985) as Sergeant Bilko on The Phil Silvers Show