{"id":29335,"date":"2010-10-29T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T21:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=29335"},"modified":"2010-10-29T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T21:21:47","slug":"carlo-the-protege-tries-to-cheer-up-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=29335","title":{"rendered":"Carlo The Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Tries To Cheer Up Carole Lombard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EwTKdzJKc4E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EwTKdzJKc4E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care how many times I see this scene.  It still makes me fall apart at the seams.  One of the greatest joys of my life was going to the Carole Lombard double-feature at The Film Forum and listening to the rolls and rolls of laughter that kept erupting in the current-day audience throughout this scene.  It was a sound like thunder, but not as sharp.  More like a wave, relentless waves that kept coming, and coming.  People were <em>dying<\/em>.  A current-day supposedly hip audience ROARING with laughter watching this scene.  It took us as a group (and the place was sold out) a scene or so to settle down again.   I remember my friend Jen, who had never seen the movie, literally <i>writhing<\/i> about in her chair, <i>screaming<\/i> with laughter, at the sight of Carlo hanging on the window in the background. And Eugene Pallette, as the baffled straight man in the scene, is almost the funniest thing in it.  He just doesn&#8217;t know what to do. &#8220;Everyone in this family needs to <i>settle down<\/i>,&#8221; he barks.  Finally he gives up.  &#8220;This family doesn&#8217;t need any stimulant.&#8221;  He takes the entire tray of cocktails from Godfrey (the so sexy and so compelling William Powell) and says, &#8220;I&#8217;ll be in my room.  You can repeat this order in 30 minutes.&#8221;   One of the funniest scenes ever filmed.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care how many times I see this scene. It still makes me fall apart at the seams. One of the greatest joys of my life was going to the Carole Lombard double-feature at The Film Forum and listening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=29335\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[298,1312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29342,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29335\/revisions\/29342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}