#fats waller

[hotvintagepoll]

Lon Chaney Sr. (The Phantom of the Opera)—ray bradbury worshipped this guy and I can see why. a horror icon known as "the man of a thousand faces," he was a master of using makeup and prosthetics to conjure characters who look nothing like each other. his erik is TRULY fucked up [photos under the cut], to circle back to bradbury, i think he says it best: "He somehow got into the shadows inside our bodies; he was able to nail down some of our secret fears and put them on-screen. The history of Lon Chaney is the history of unrequited loves. He brings that part of you out into the open, because you fear that you are not loved, you fear that you never will be loved, you fear there is some part of you that's grotesque, that the world will turn away from." Some of his work has not aged well, but much of it is still found in the way we depict horror, the strange, and the uncanny in cinema.

Fats Waller (Stormy Weather)—Submitting fats waller because i looove his little cameo spot in Stormy Weather (1943). He has the best facial expressions and he just seems like a silly fella!

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[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Fats Waller:

Lon Chaney Sr.:

Oh my God. Let me just focus on Erik for a sec (like i don't do that every day of my life). Pug nose, crooked tooth little mess man. He put on his big cunty feathered hat for the ball but underneath it he's got that stupid, stupid hair. The evening suit that kinda doesn't fit. In what way is Lon Chaney--in this role specifically-- not the ultimate scrungo? Granted, they edited out his very scrungliest of moments (WE WERE ROBBED) but WE HAVE THE STILLS!!!

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' 1929

"Ain't Misbehavin'" is a 1929 song written by Fats Waller, Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf. Waller recorded the original version that year for Victor Records and also later re-recorded the song for the 1943 film Stormy Weather. In a 1941 interview with Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Fats claimed the song was written while "lodging" in alimony prison, and that is why he was not "misbehaving".

There were six other recordings of the song released in 1929, including versions by Louis Armstrong, Ruth Etting, Gene Austin, and Leo Reisman and His Orchestra. It was also used in the off-Broadway musical Connie's Hot Chocolates.

It has been recorded by many other performers over the years, including Billie Holiday, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, Django Reinhardt, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, and Willie Nelson, to name a few.

The original 1929 recording of "Ain't Misbehavin'" by Fats Waller received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1984, and it was one of fifty recordings selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2004.

"Ain't Misbehavin'" received a total of 79,6% yes votes!

[deforest]

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' — 1941, dir. Warren Murray ft. FATS WALLER & MYRA JOHNSON

[jt1674]

[citizenscreen]

Pianist/composer/singer Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943)

[dirtylowdown2]

Fats Waller - Swingin' Them Jingle Bells

[didierleclair]

FATS !

[audiemurphy1945]

R. Crumb, Nostalgia Press Catalogue, 1971-1972

[catboymoses]

Armelia McQueen, Charlayne Woodard, and Nell Carter Off-Time--Ain't Misbehavin', 1982

[musickickztoo]

Al Casey

September 15, 1915 – September 11, 2005

[drdavidhuxley]

Nell Carter, Armelia McQueen, Ken Page, Charlayne Woodard, and André De Shields perform "Black and Blue" in Ain't Misbehavin' (1982).

[hotvintagepoll]

Barbara Windsor (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Carry On films)—I think it's really scrungly how Barbara Windsor uses her ~assets~ to not just be a sex object, but be SILLY with how sexy she is. she so easily could have been a one-off sexist butt of the joke but I always get the sense she's driving the humor, using her big batty eyes, tiny stature, goofy voice, and jessica rabbit figure to turn herself into a living Looney Toon.

Fats Waller (Stormy Weather)—Submitting fats waller because i looove his little cameo spot in Stormy Weather (1943). He has the best facial expressions and he just seems like a silly fella!

This is round 2 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you're confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Windsor:

Waller:

[blondebrainpowered]

Fats Waller - Your Feet's Too Big, 1939

[jazzplusplus]

1941 - Fats Waller - Shrine Auditorium - Los Angeles

[citizenscreen]

Fats Waller was #botd in 1904 🎹 #jazz

“ Jazz isn’t what you do; it’s how you do it.”

[glimeres]

1978 Tony Awards - Ken Page, André DeShields, Charlayne Woodard, Nell Carter, and Armelia McQueen perform a medley of the songs Ladies Who Sing With The Band / Off Time from the musical revue Ain't Misbehavin'