This is great. Beatrice Lillie was so funny (Exit Smiling with Jack Pickford) but made so few films. Louise Fazenda goes back to the very early Sennett Keystone days, a very funny actress.
Exit Smiling was the motion picture debut of both Beatrice Lillie and Franklin Pangborn. A very good an funny movie. Franklin Pangborn became a very busy and in demand character actor.
@@garymattscheck9066 I first saw her on the old Jack Paar show in the mid '60s and howled at the funny stories she told. She was hilarious. Been a fan since then.
Frank Fay (with the moustache) was Barbara Stanwyck's first husband. An alcoholic in real life, the husband who falls from the heights in A Star Is Born is in large part based on him.
He was also a raging egotist, and was racist, antisemitic, homophobic...you name it. He was popular with the KKK and the Nazis. A big reason he fell from grace was because he was so arrogant and hateful that nobody wanted to work with him.
@@DogsAreDisgusting Democrats would cancel this person if he was in our time. They hate people who don't support homosexual marriage and parenting, so they're far from homophobic (but they are kind of heterophobic). They call things like border control racist, yet they have no problem with racism towards white people, so they are racist (but not the same kind of racism that most people refer to). Social media apps delete anti-semetic comments because of their extreme hated of Hitler and Nazism (they hate Nazis almost as much as Nazis hated Jews), but they're funding Ukrainian Nazis, so i don't really know what they think about anti-semetism. Joe Biden was a racist though, as well as a pedophile. I don't know how many people would agree with your comments, due to how powerful the Democrats are.
@@peteratkinson922 LOL...a joke about Fay was that he would walk down Lover's Lane holding his own hand. Robert Wagner, who knew him, said he was one of the most horrible people in Hollywood. A good comedian, yes, but a vile human being.
So here is the lowdown: on the down low going down. Louise Fazanda (895-1962) was married to Hal Wallis, producer. Frank Fay (1891-1961) was something of a d*ckhead whom nobody in Hollywood like for his pro-fascist viewpoints; for all that, Frank Fay has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was married to Barbara Stanwyck whose fame rose as his declined; it is thought the story line of "A Star is Born" is based on his life, Lloyd Hamilton (1891-1935) was a famed actor for comedy two-reelers but couldn't sustain his talent for three-reelers and ended up dying from his alcoholism. And we all know Beatrice Lillie who lived from 1894-1989.
Fay was the first monologist paving the way for Hope, Benny, etc. Just standing and talking without funny hats and falling down was a revolution a the time. He was also a really nasty man, anti semite, etc. Allegedly he beat the crap out of Stanwick.
Love it!
This is great. Beatrice Lillie was so funny (Exit Smiling with Jack Pickford) but made so few films. Louise Fazenda goes back to the very early Sennett Keystone days, a very funny actress.
Superb clip exemplifying Lillie and all the rest!
Exit Smiling was the motion picture debut of both Beatrice Lillie and Franklin Pangborn. A very good an funny movie. Franklin Pangborn became a very busy and in demand character actor.
Years ago my mother and I caught this movie on the Late Late Show (remember?) We both laughed so hard we were in pain. Thanks for the memory.
Bea Lillie really does manage to outshine the other actors with what seems like little to no effort in this clip. A marvellous comedienne.
She was really funny. I saw her in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
@@garymattscheck9066 I first saw her on the old Jack Paar show in the mid '60s and howled at the funny stories she told. She was hilarious. Been a fan since then.
Taking movies had been around about a year when this was made.
Frank Fay (with the moustache) was Barbara Stanwyck's first husband. An alcoholic in real life, the husband who falls from the heights in A Star Is Born is in large part based on him.
He influenced many of the earler comedians - Bob Hope, Jack Benny just to name a few. In his day, the top, I mean top, comic/mc in the business.
He was also a raging egotist, and was racist, antisemitic, homophobic...you name it. He was popular with the KKK and the Nazis. A big reason he fell from grace was because he was so arrogant and hateful that nobody wanted to work with him.
@@DogsAreDisgusting Democrats would cancel this person if he was in our time. They hate people who don't support homosexual marriage and parenting, so they're far from homophobic (but they are kind of heterophobic). They call things like border control racist, yet they have no problem with racism towards white people, so they are racist (but not the same kind of racism that most people refer to). Social media apps delete anti-semetic comments because of their extreme hated of Hitler and Nazism (they hate Nazis almost as much as Nazis hated Jews), but they're funding Ukrainian Nazis, so i don't really know what they think about anti-semetism. Joe Biden was a racist though, as well as a pedophile. I don't know how many people would agree with your comments, due to how powerful the Democrats are.
@@michaelcornett444 I gather you like the guy
@@peteratkinson922 LOL...a joke about Fay was that he would walk down Lover's Lane holding his own hand. Robert Wagner, who knew him, said he was one of the most horrible people in Hollywood. A good comedian, yes, but a vile human being.
Aww. Poor Lloyd Hamilton looks a bit out of it. That man had such a horrible last few years. Such a sweet, funny guy as well.
So deucedly clever!
So here is the lowdown: on the down low going down. Louise Fazanda (895-1962) was married to Hal Wallis, producer. Frank Fay (1891-1961) was something of a d*ckhead whom nobody in Hollywood like for his pro-fascist viewpoints; for all that, Frank Fay has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was married to Barbara Stanwyck whose fame rose as his declined; it is thought the story line of "A Star is Born" is based on his life, Lloyd Hamilton (1891-1935) was a famed actor for comedy two-reelers but couldn't sustain his talent for three-reelers and ended up dying from his alcoholism. And we all know Beatrice Lillie who lived from 1894-1989.
Fay was the first monologist paving the way for Hope, Benny, etc. Just standing and talking without funny hats and falling down was a revolution a the time. He was also a really nasty man, anti semite, etc. Allegedly he beat the crap out of Stanwick.
Frank Fay influenced many early comedians - Bob Hope, Jack Benny just to name a few. In his day, the top, and I mean top, comic/mc in the business.
Fascinating knowledge. Thank you so much !
louise fazend awas married to wallis
Truly one of the worst acts I have ever seen.