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Post by dianedebuda on Apr 8, 2023 13:56:28 GMT
But, but, but ... Nat and Stubby were there privately communicating just to me and any others who heard them were just eavesdropping. Surely that makes it qualify? 🤣
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Post by sagebrush on Apr 8, 2023 15:04:08 GMT
I like Cary Grant's momentary breaking of the fourth wall in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. He gives the audience a look of terror, as if he's conveying to them "Can you believe this?" as he's being gagged and tied up. (starts around the 1:40 marker.)
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Post by sepiatone on Apr 8, 2023 16:51:31 GMT
Remember when we used to get into debates like this at TCM over what "classic" means?  As for "stepping out of character" that's all that sort of thing should be called, as many of the examples given here were clearly showing the actor NOT "stepping out of character", as when Oliver Hardy looks towards the camera(and then thus too, at the audience) with exasperation at something frustrating or annoying Stan has done. Sepiatone |
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Post by dianedebuda on Apr 8, 2023 18:09:41 GMT
Remember when we used to get into debates like this at TCM over what "classic" means? |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 10, 2023 16:13:26 GMT
Ann Morgan Guilbert in A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 12, 2023 17:51:30 GMT
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) -- "How 'bout that."
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Post by sepiatone on Apr 13, 2023 15:19:33 GMT
Was Tim drinking BUD LIGHT when he shot that scene? Whitefang |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 26, 2023 20:57:55 GMT
Frank Sinatra doesn't like "giving anything away for free" about half way through Suddenly (1954).
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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 27, 2023 1:10:02 GMT
When posting some of the William Powell movies featured in his SOTM run, I suddenly remembered by looking at a still of the moment where Kay Francis shushes the viewers in the final seconds of Jewel Robbery.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 30, 2023 16:26:25 GMT
Gene Kelly's "I Like Myself" number in It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
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Post by BunnyWhit on Aug 6, 2023 23:12:30 GMT
Ronald Colman breaks the fourth wall in My Life with Caroline (1941) in order to provide some exposition. (I prefer to believe he's addressing me, only me, with his lovely voice. But I can share.)
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Post by sagebrush on Aug 7, 2023 0:24:59 GMT
Ronald Colman breaks the fourth wall in My Life with Caroline (1941) in order to provide some exposition. (I prefer to believe he's addressing me, only me, with his lovely voice. But I can share.)
I love that scene! I think you're wrong, though, BunnyWhit; I'm sure he is addressing me, and only me! |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Sept 6, 2023 14:55:28 GMT
In Dear Brigitte (1965), the Captain (Ed Wynn) spends most of his screen time addressing the audience through extended fourth wall breaks. He blames it on Tom Jones, which is the funniest utterance in this comedy.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 11, 2023 12:41:18 GMT
Sometimes movies come directly from the stage with a hole in the fourth wall already built in in the form of a narrator, such as Shirley Booth's in The Matchmaker (1958). Just thinking about it is making me want to see it again. Great cast: Shirley MacLaine, Tony Perkins, Robert Morse and Paul Ford.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 11, 2023 13:54:32 GMT
Sometimes movies come directly from the stage with a hole in the fourth wall already built in in the form of a narrator, such as Shirley Booth's in The Matchmaker (1958). Just thinking about it is making me want to see it again. Great cast: Shirley MacLaine, Tony Perkins, Robert Morse and Paul Ford.
There's a good Thelma Ritter movie, "The Model and the Marriage Broker," where Ritter plays a professional matchmaker. |
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