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A view from the pastI happened to come across this film clip while searching for something else completely different. It’s from the 1942 Paramount musical Holiday Inn with Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby with music by Irving Berlin (This was the film that first introduced the song White Christmas) I have seen this film before, but the scene below is always cut when the film is shown on TV. No explanation necessary as you well clearly see for yourself. But I find it a fascinating glimpse into the attitudes and mindset of the period. (The line the white chick says before the musical number is the killer.) Take it away Bing…
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Toot, toot, tootsie! And ol’ girl was so pretty before. What a shame. Dangnabit, they sure don’t make ‘em like that anymore. Oh wait, yes they do
Sergio, is that Louise Beavers in the impromptu Mammy singing scene?
Yes it is Losuie Beavers. You’re good!
Damn I can’t get the song out of my head!
ROTFLMBAO! Lawd ha’mercy!
Seriously, though this looks ridiculous here, this number would be good for a redo with two actual Black people as the leads.
And for the record, the 1934 version of Imitation of Life is still the best one. Douglas Sirk can kiss my…
I had look up Google what ROTFLMBAO meant…
Is this Tyler Perry’s new joint? I thought i saw Joe and Mr. Brown?
It’s February…maybe they’re trying to celebrate Black History Week!
Thanks Sergio.
I was gonna say that Zeus but just let it go!
And yeah Art, the 50’s Imitation of Life is garbage – don’t know why folks dig it.
DAMN IT! I STILL CAN’T GET THE SONG OUT OF MY HEAD! I’ve been humming it since yesterday.
Curse that Irving Berlin! that’s why he’s ranked up there with Cole Porter, Jermone Kern, George and Ira Gerswhin and Rodgers and Hart. They weren’t called tunesmiths for nothing.
Maybe this will put all of that recent blackface in advertising (I”m talking about you, Paris Vogue) into perspective for the non-believers. Although Beavers’ bit was more disturbing.
And old girl is right about being wrong thinking she was going to look beautiful for her big number, because she doesn’t end up looking like a black woman–she looks like a clown.
i will admit the song is catchy. i was watching this clip a few weeks ago this guy was talking about koreans and their hatred blackface in yellow and white. here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v05LKGMC3i4 this is the website it came from http://theblackchannel.net/ i didn’t know there was an original imitation of life. watching it now on youtube.
As an admitted fan of Imitation of Life I and II, I have to say it’s the the mother-daughter story that pulls me in. And in the 1934 version, Fredi Washington smolders and Louise Beavers pulls @ the heart strings. In both versions, that last scene tears it up when the daughter comes back and falls on the mother’s casket begging for forgiveness. Who can resist pure melodrama at it’s finest? (Tyler Perry haters take note: black folks love melodrama, @ least I do).
Now as for the blackface, it is very disturbing, esp. seeing it done by Asians (whatever happened to people of color unity?). And now it’s spreading to Turkey http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=314743
But I suspect that it’s all there to hide a bad case of melanin envy.