Ralph Carlson Blog

As we continue to explore comedy this week, take a look at some fantastic comic scenes from old movies.

First Judy Holliday playing gin rummy with Broderick Crawford.  This is in Born Yesterday from 1950.  She is a master of timing.  This movie is comic in the societal improvement kind of way.  We feel superior to the lowbrow chorus girl until she turns the tables on us.

Then the Marx Brothers, in Cocoanuts.  How can you pick just one scene.  At least this one has them all.  I don’t know how to characterize the comedy.  There is some social comment but mostly it is all slapstick and wordplay.

Then Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby – a wonderful, nostaligic romp.

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