| Any Ossi Oswalda fans out there? Featured here as the bride in one of the earliest big musical dance numbers in an Ernst Lubitsch silent film --a Foxtrot epidemic | |
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| Posted by: PlayWiz 03:52 pm EDT 08/17/22 | |
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| from "Die Austernprinzessin" ("The Oyster Princess"), an early Ernst Lubitsch film. The wonderful Lubitsch used her in a few of his early silent films in Germany, including "The Doll" (about a sex doll) and short 45-minute film pre-dating the German "Victor Victoria" called "Ich moechte kein Mann sein" ("I Don't Want to be a Man") in which the wonderful Ossi sneaks away from her male guardian by dressing up as a man, going out to a nightclub, meets her guardian, ending up kissing him (male/male) and so on. I was reading "How Did Lubitsch Do it?" by Joseph McBride and decided to watch some of these early gems. Another one more theater related is a silent film of Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windemere's Fan" featuring Ronald Colman. Here's the Foxtrot epidemic number, and it's a hoot. Musical stagers might do well to study some of these things as they are so witty and funny. |
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| Link | Ossi Oswalda - Foxtrot Epidemic |
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