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Article: Feeling better by the dozen.(REEL WORLD)(film comedians)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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I RECENTLY FINISHED WRITING A TEXT on film comedians from the Depression decade of the 1930s. The study filters its analysis through 12 pivotal pictures. Each represents a mini-microcosm of the comic world of its focus funny person or persons. The classic dozen are "City Lights" (1931, Charlie Chaplin), "The Kid From Spain" (1932, Eddie Cantor), "She Done Him Wrong" (1933, Mae West), "Duck Soup" (1933, Marx Brothers), "Sons of the Desert" (1933, Laurel and Hardy), "Judge Priest" (1934, Will Rogers), "It's a Gift" (1934, W.C. Fields), "Alibi Ike" (1934, Joe E. Brown), "A Night at the Opera" (1935, Marx Brothers), "Modern Times" (1936, Charlie Chaplin), "Way Out West" ...
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