1/10 🧵 Hoy cumple 95 años uno de los mayores mitos eróticos del cine: Angie Dickinson. ¡Y sí, sigue entre nosotros! Aportó elegancia, belleza y un magnetismo que desafió al tiempo. Abro hilo sobre la mujer que paralizó Hollywood 👇
🎬This scene from Animal House (1978) still works perfectly.
Tim Matheson’s Otter casually sets his sights on Mrs. Wormer (Verna Bloom), the dean’s wife, with complete confidence and zero shame. The whole sequence is a great example of the film’s reckless, anything-goes National Lampoon humor. Matheson plays it with just the right amount of smooth-idiot charm.
One of those moments that sums up why the movie became a comedy landmark.
❓Does this scene still make you laugh, or does it feel more like pure 1970s chaos now? 👇
#AnimalHouse #TimMatheson #Comedy #ClassicComedy #NationalLampoon
The fact that no news station will air the speech tonight is all the proof you need that there is a conspiracy between the major media corporations and anti-Trump sentiment .
In spite of the impressive cast of "Murder by Death" (1976), some had their doubts about how the film would do at the box office. Peter Sellers didn't realize how well the film would do. He wasn't pleased with his performance or the final film. He told producer Ray Stark the film was "the epitome of 8mm home moviemaking" and sold his percentage for about $1.3 million.
The company David Niven's son worked for invested in the film expecting it to be a tax loss. Instead, "Murder By Death" became the number eight moneymaker of 1976. Niven responded, "So much for a tax loss? But isn't it rather alarming to have a son who has absolutely no faith in his old man's pictures?"
Alec Guinness, however, considered Murder By Death "a very funny film." Guinness rarely went to Hollywood, but he liked the script so much, he made the trip in order to play Bensonmum. Guinness said, "The script made me laugh, and not many things in recent times have done that."
("Murder by Death", Deborah Looney, TCM, 2003)
P.S: On this day, 50 years ago, "Murder by Death" (1976) was released in the USA.