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Post by lonesomepolecat on Aug 22, 2024 8:32:50 GMT
In the 1955 movie YOU'RE NEVER TOO YOUNG, Dean Martin breaks the fourth wall. Jerry Lewis plays an adult man (Wilbur Hoolick) trying to pass for a juvenile. Dean's character (Bob Miles) suspects that he's not the boy he pretends to be. He catches him with his girlfriend (played by Diana Lynn) and delivers one of the best lines in the film - 'You stick to the little ones, the big ones are mine!' After that Dean offers Jerry a cigar and Jerry lights it up like a pro - that's when Dean looks right at the camera and invites the audience in! View Attachment View AttachmentThis film also co-stars Raymond Burr and Nina Foch. Paramount remade this from the 1942 movie THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland but reversed the female and male roles. Dean also breaks the fourth wall in the western 5 CARD STUD 1968. In a scene with his co-star Inger Stevens as she's telling him what he does and doesn't understand about women, Dean briefly looks into the camera and gives a little smile and then continues the scene. I think he was able to use the fourth wall effectively.
On SUTS Jerry Lewis Day the other day I noticed this in a couple of movies, but the main one I remember was THE DISORDERLY ORDERLY when Jerry looks right at the camera and mouths "His teeth are in a glass!"
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Post by christine on Aug 28, 2024 0:38:21 GMT
On Grace Kelly's SUTS day, I was enjoying TO CATCH A THIEF 1955, and I noticed Cary Grant looking right at me -
It was pretty nice looking right at Cary - breaking that 4th wall!
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 28, 2024 7:07:08 GMT
On Grace Kelly's SUTS day, I was enjoying TO CATCH A THIEF 1955, and I noticed Cary Grant looking right at me -
It was pretty nice looking right at Cary - breaking that 4th wall!
I guess Grace Kelly was kissing someone. |
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Post by christine on Aug 28, 2024 17:19:36 GMT
Oh Fading Fast! LOL 😄
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Post by BunnyWhit on Aug 28, 2024 19:22:49 GMT
On Grace Kelly's SUTS day, I was enjoying TO CATCH A THIEF 1955, and I noticed Cary Grant looking right at me -
It was pretty nice looking right at Cary - breaking that 4th wall!
I guess Grace Kelly was kissing someone.
I guess Cary Grant was kissing someone. |
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Post by christine on Aug 28, 2024 19:59:14 GMT
Exactly what I was thinking BunnyWhit!!! 😉
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 30, 2024 16:40:52 GMT
Right at the end of 1932's "Jewel Robbery," Kay Francis tells us her secret plans to meet her new lover as she looks straight into the camera and implores us, the viewer, not to tell on her.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Sept 3, 2024 5:21:14 GMT
At the very end of Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949), Lynn Belvedere is at his graduation ceremony. The dean hands him his diploma, and he hands the dean a magazine which has the impossible cover photo of the very scene they are in. The dean and president stare at it in disbelief, and Mr. Belvedere looks straight at the audience and shrugs.
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Post by christine on Sept 8, 2024 5:11:21 GMT
As I was watching 4 FOR TEXAS 1963 on TCM this afternoon, even though I've seen it many times, I noticed today that Dean is 'breaking the fourth wall' when he talks to Arthur Godfrey (who plays a gambler), and then looks at the camera and says, "Arthur Godfrey?"
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Oh Dean!
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 8, 2024 14:21:39 GMT
In "One Hour with You," from 1932, Maurice Chevalier repeatedly breaks the fourth wall to create a "bond" between the audience and himself. It works a bit, but is also overplayed.
TopBilled and I both reviewed the movie over in the "Neglected Films" thread. You can find his review here (mine follows his): "One Hour with You"
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Post by BunnyWhit on Sept 13, 2024 22:32:25 GMT
In the final seconds of Street of Chance (1942), Sheldon Leonard steps outside, gives the camera a decided "well, that's all wrapped up" look, then lights a cigarette and walks away.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 16, 2024 14:30:45 GMT
I just watched The Crimson Pirate (1952), which starts with Burt Lancaster swinging around the riggings, stopping to tell the audience to ask no questions and believe only what they see...or maybe only half of what they see. The clip was recorded from somebody's TV, but you'll get the idea.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Oct 24, 2024 20:40:10 GMT
Navin (Steve Martin) waves goodbye to us from the porch as the credits roll in The Jerk (1979).
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Post by BunnyWhit on Nov 18, 2024 16:28:52 GMT
"Tell your children" at the end of Reefer Madness (1936).
"...the next tragedy may be that of your daughter, or your son....or yours, or yours.....[to the camera] OR YOURS."
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