Edmund Goulding, director of Grand Hotel, The Dawn Patrol and Nightmare Alley, instructs students as to how to properly shoot a kiss for the camera at Columbia University during a special motion picture class in 1927. Not an actual academic major for decades the school offered up what I can only assume was a one time deal or an elective course on movies. I couldn't say for sure because there is no further info on the photo. I wondered if Goulding grabbed the heads of his stars when setting up a kiss. Probably not.
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I had read somewhere that future director John Sullivan had taken that class. He later went on to direct Hay-hay in the Hayloft.
I wonder if Mr. Sullivan grabbed the heads of his actors in the hayloft and showed them how to simulate a roll in the hay.
Ever see Goulding's The Constant Nymph? I've always wanted to, as it promises wall-to-wall sex - how rare that must have been for the time!
Y'know... I was watching Brief Encounter last night, and I swore I saw Sir David Lean's hand on the back of Trevor Howard's head.
Arbo, that's what I thought too. Boy was I disappointed. It reminded me of that movie I was so excited to see after my first Victory garden came in. I was so into gardening and was excited to see a movie about someone who constantly gardens. What a letdown.
Fox, I'm positive I saw Lawrence Kasdan's hand on Kathleen Turner's ass in Body Heat
LK - "No, no Kathleen, thrust like this..." [pushes and pulls ass forwards and back]
William Hurt - "What about me LK?"
LK - "Uhhh... you're fine."
And it is well known that Hitchcok would literally mold an actor's face with his hands to get the right expression, like they were clay!
I hear Nick Park does the same thing with his actors.
Ryan-
I've heard of that too.
I've also heard that Roman Polanski used to take photos of his young actresses and would even sometimes get really hands on with auditions and such.
I respect that the director is the driving force behind a picture (and do want to be a film maker one day...), but there's a snowballs chance in hell I'd let anyone put their hands all over my face like that.
Fox:
I think Polanski's hands-on touch has passed in to legend!
I think Polanski's hands-on touch has passed in to legend!
Well, infamy at least.
Nick Park is the director/animator of Wallace and Gromit by the way, in case no one got the previous joke.
I confess, I did not catch the reference. And I will throw you your due kudos, are ya happy now?
Yes. Thank you.
I totally got the Nick Park reference, although I might have said Art Clokey.
I do need to catch up on my Wallace & Gromit.
I totally got the Nick Park reference, although I might have said Art Clokey.
It was a close shave but I went with Park.
Nick Park is the director/animator of Wallace and Gromit by the way, in case no one got the previous joke.
Umm, I got it, but now you ruined it by explaining it. Now it's like it never happened....
And for those who don't know, see, Wallace and Gromit are claymation characters and thus their faces are literally molded like clay just like the comment that...
... oh wait. Am I explaining this too much?
This is like post-modern humor... or something.
God... we need to get paid for this.
Hey... what's going on over at Cake Wrecks today???
You mean the winner of the best humor blog? The one that makes fun of cake designs?
Piece of shit blog.
... oh wait. Am I explaining this too much?
It's a joke that gets funnier each time you tell it. No, really, it does.
Greg: Did you really miss my Sullivan's Travels reference? Just asking.
Peter, I admit, at first I didn't recognize that movie name then I googled it and Sullivan's Travels comes up. I love it, own it and have written it up here before but I did completely blank on Hay Hay in the Hayloft at first. I guess my follow up joke was pretty pathetic.
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