Music – A nastalgic and comical video presentation by Spadecaller that accompanies the Yiddish song, "Bei Mir Bis Du Shein," recorded by the Andrew Sisters. See if you can recognize the old time celebrities featured.
Mae West
W. C. Fields
Lucile Ball
Groucho
Margeret Dumont
Harpo
Heyworth
Marilyn
Milto Berle
Bella L.
Charlie C.
Jack Benny
Anna Magnani
Fields and Allen
Burt Lancaster
Joe E. Brown and Jack Lemon
Martha Raye
Jimmy Durante
Ingrid Bergman
Gina Lollobrigida
Dietrich
Desi Arnez
Horn
Satchmo with
Danny Kaye
Virginia Mayo...
Let's see; did I miss anyone?
How'd I do?
Nice work, Spade!
Poulenc,
I'm impressed. There must be a few of us still roaming around.
"Horn" Ha!
You missed a few... but I will reserve the answers to give someone else a stab at it. Thanks for posting your answer.
fyi
The pictures in the video are of Charlie Chaplin not Hitler!
The Great Dictator is a film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940, it bitterly satirizes Nazism and Adolf Hitler, culminating in an overt political plea to defy fascism.
The film is unusual for its period, in the days prior to American entry into World War II, as the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Well before the full extent of the horrors of Nazism had been uncovered, Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis, the latter of whom he excoriates in the film as "machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts".
(The film was Chaplin's first "talkie", as well his most commercially successful film)
SC - I'll try again, prop seems to be having a bad "lose posts day"...
Didn't you post the Charlie Chaplin speach a wee while ago ??
Yes, I did. I figured I would resubmit it here to ward off some of the PMs that I am getting that are condeming me for glorifiying the Nazis. Some people (like Wolfie) really don't get it.
RE Hitler:
The pictures in the video are of Charlie Chaplin not Hitler!
The Great Dictator is a film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940, it bitterly satirizes Nazism and Adolf Hitler, culminating in an overt political plea to defy fascism.
The film is unusual for its period, in the days prior to American entry into World War II, as the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Well before the full extent of the horrors of Nazism had been uncovered, Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis, the latter of whom he excoriates in the film as "machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts".
(The film was Chaplin's first "talkie", as well his most commercially successful film)
Chaplin's film is a high water mark in the industry.
A bitter fact of history that is rarely discussed in our history books, is that during this period of time, when this film was released, the U.S. were looking the other way at what Nazi Germany was doing.
We turned away many ships of Jewish refugees from our shores; many of whom became the victims of the death camps...
SC I didn't learn that we turned away Jewish refugees from our shores until I got to high school. I also didn't know that Milwaukee and The Twin Cities also had pro Nazi marches (before we started fighting them.) and that many in this country supported the Nazi's until I was in college. To me that is one of many sad chapters in our history.
I never forgot the one time that my father talked about going to war against Hitler as a Jew from a small midwestern town. Rarely did he ever talk about the subject, but on one occassion he came out with his feelings. He posed a question that I never forgot. How do you think it felt fighting against an enmey that was killing Jews along side soldiers that were taught to despise Jews too? When his fellow soldiers discovered that he was Jewish, they wondered why he did not have horns! Many had never met a Jew and believed that we had horns. And he wasn't kidding.
My father enlisted willingly, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, marched through France, and witnessed the liberation of Auschwitz. Most American Jews never talk about these experiences.
Very well done SC!!! Quackpot points out Big Band music was dumped for rock and roll. It was dumped for economic reasons, not aesthetic ones. There was a transition period too, the crooners. The music industry no longer supported large bands economically, so it focused on individual singers, and small ensembles. This began long before rock and roll caught the attention of the public. It simply was far cheaper to produce than large big band music.
That was great Spadecaller! I really like listening to the Andrew Sisters. Good song! wow....I recognized almost everyone. Poulenc listed them so well!
I bought an autographed old pencil sketch/picture of Clark Gable several years. The picture was of him when he first starting acting.
I told my kids that we had a black n white TV, with color plastic sheets that would stick to the TV screen, which made it color TV...;) I was just looking at some of my mothers pictures, taken in 1945, same hair style as the Andrew Sisters.
Thanks to all for the great comments!
Thanks Spadecaller, nice trip down memory lane! You did a wonderful job of timing the music with the pictures.
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In 1937, Sammy Cahn heard a performance of the song, sung in Yiddish by African American performers Johnnie and George at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and on seeing the response, got his employer to buy the rights so he (together with Saul Chaplin) could rewrite the song with English language lyrics. He then convinced The Andrews Sisters to perform the song (recorded November 24, 1937), and it became a major hit.