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Friday, June 29, 2012
Strictly for Laughs - Pilot - featuring Dave Barry, Sid Melton, Ken Murray, Rose Marie, Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jesse White, Paul Gilbert, Moe Howard, Buddy Lester, Willard Waterman, Tommy Noonan plus Bobby someone and Marvin somebody (1961)
A very rare glimpse at some forgotten comedians and comic actors. I am ashamed I can't identify 'em all, so speak up if you can! Whose the other fella with the pencil moustache that is not Willard Waterman?
About 90% sure that the other pencil-mustache guy is Jack Durant, who used to do a double act with Frank Mitchell, where they basically slap, punch, kick, and generally pummel each other. Later Durant did a stand-up single; I saw him do this in the British movie No Orchids For Miss Blandish, and on David Frost's show circa 1970; his toupee on this occasion was even worse than the one he's wearing here.
Over the weekend I looked at my DVD of No Orchids For Miss Blandish. I am now 100% ceratin that the other pencil-mustache guy is Jack Durant. Furhtermore, having just rewatched the entire Just For Laffs, I am also certain that Harold Peary isn't in it; Peary's bushy, curly hair was his most distinctive feature, and it's nowhere to be found here. But who was the guy at the far right of the second group? I'm thinking one of the Stroud twins, but which one?
Marvin is Marvin Miller, who was on a TV series called The Millionaire.
ReplyDeleteNon-Willard Waterman is Harold Peary, Waterman's predecessor as the Great Gildersleeve.
ReplyDeleteAbout 90% sure that the other pencil-mustache guy is Jack Durant, who used to do a double act with Frank Mitchell, where they basically slap, punch, kick, and generally pummel each other.
ReplyDeleteLater Durant did a stand-up single; I saw him do this in the British movie No Orchids For Miss Blandish, and on David Frost's show circa 1970; his toupee on this occasion was even worse than the one he's wearing here.
Hey, wasn't Paul Gilbert the guy who was judo-flipped by Laura Petrie at a bar?
ReplyDeleteIt's Harold Peary without a doubt - Waterman made a career out of imitating him.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this and everything else you send through the tubes - it's all appreciated.
ReplyDeleteOver the weekend I looked at my DVD of No Orchids For Miss Blandish.
ReplyDeleteI am now 100% ceratin that the other pencil-mustache guy is Jack Durant.
Furhtermore, having just rewatched the entire Just For Laffs, I am also certain that Harold Peary isn't in it; Peary's bushy, curly hair was his most distinctive feature, and it's nowhere to be found here.
But who was the guy at the far right of the second group? I'm thinking one of the Stroud twins, but which one?
Oops! Make that the third group.
ReplyDeleteThe one with Buddy Lester and Marvin Miller.
Thanks and apologies.