Friday, January 14, 2011

From Roger Smith #3

The gag here is that Lou is inside the larger prop, scooting it around, in a panic to find the door once he finds out Beatty has company.

The prop guys must have had a time of it, trying to create the bamboo-and-vine effect on the arena.

A copy of this frame, autographed by Beatty to Shemp and his wife, was recently up for auction, opening at $6,999.99. I think I heard a still, small voice say, "Ye with thine Beatty plunder, go thou, and do likewise."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah!
That is the "straightest" bamboo I've ever seen!
:-)
CIndy Potter

Ole Whitey said...

At least one year when he was on the Cole show, the legs of the seats were painted in a faux-bamboo fashion.

Not very deceptive.