Funny man Ed Wynn appears at a show's rehearsal
Title card: "Broadway's funny man even makes chorus girls laugh - Ed Wynn, 'The Perfect Fool', lightens first rehearsal of new production in New York by entertaining cast on stage" / Ed Wynn arrives amid a bevy of chorus girls and a pianist: Wynn wears a man's hat with the interior band pulled down / SOT Winn "my kids graduated the private school today... he got a 100. 50 in geography and 50 in history"; all laugh / He is introduces Jane Lee, Katherine Lee; close-up of Wynn and the hatband / Jack Powell takes chopsticks out and plays intricate percussion on different parts of a chair as a woman (Sarah Jane) starts dancing with high kicks / A pan of the other girls' faces; a close-up of women moving out of synch / Close-up of Sarah Jane's feet and more high kicks / A pan of the dancers' legs moving in time to the piano / Note: exact day not known
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Editorial #:
1149265986
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
August 01, 1931
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released.ÌýMore information
Clip length:
00:01:31:11
Location:
New York City, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr003841_04_01.mov
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