#scared stiff 1953

[virfujiwara]

Ruffled sleeved suit jackets need to do a comeback fr

[luzzarm]

▪︎Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis▪︎

Scared Stiff

SUPER 8 REEL SILENT HOME MOVIE 📽

Amazing digitalization of a rare Super 8 Reel film from the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie Scared Stiff (1953).

This 8mm film was provided by Ken Films Inc. home movies.

I think this specific one is from around 1973, but I'm not sure.

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Youtube video: Mr. AV

Photos: atticandbarntreasures.com

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[hooked-on-elvis]

HE SURE IS A PRINCE!

"I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine"

[1] Elvis photographed at the Blue Light studio in Memphis, 1954. [2] Cinderella, a Disney movie released in 1950. [3] Elvis' first Sun Records publicity portrait, 1954.

Studio Sessions for Sun September 10–?, 1954: Sun Studio, Memphis The songs that came to Elvis’s mind were as motley a crew as can be imagined, yet each one was drawn from his own experiences. His prodigious memory helped him dredge up songs from the oddest places, and the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie "Scared Stiff" was one. He recalled Martin’s rendition of a number called “I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine,” which had actually been written for Cinderella but was never used in the Disney film. The movie version differed from Martin’s 1950 recorded version, and it was the screen performance he remembered; he took Martin’s approach one step further, speeding the song up, solidifying the beat, and adding an energetic vocal delivery on top.

Excerpt: "Elvis Presley: A Life in Music" by Ernst Jorgensen. Foreword by Peter Guralnick (1998)

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“I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine” was written by Mack David in 1949 for the Disney film “Cinderella”, but the song ended up being misused for the film released in the early 1950. The song was recorded by different artists during the following years. For instance, in addition to Dean Martin, Patti Page is another artist for whom Elvis had the greatest admiration. Her version of “I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine” was released in 1950. It’s not strange to assume that Elvis also heard her version before recording the song in 1954.

Here's Dean Martin performing the song in scene from movie "Scared Stiff " (1953):

Elvis recorded the song on September, 1954 and it was first released as a single on October 4 the same year, with B-side "Good Rockin' Tonight".

Listen to “I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine” by Elvis Presley — Guitar: Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley. Bass: Bill Black

When Elvis signed with RCA Records in late 1955, RCA reissued all five of his Sun singles, inclusing "I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine" / "Good Rockin’ Tonight".

RCA's reissue of Sun Records' original Elvis Presley singles.

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FURTHER INFO

Are you curious with the movie the King watched and which inspired him in some level to pick a song for his early records? Watch the 1953 movie 'Scared Stiff, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis: dailymotion.com

FUN FACT: Our dear Lizabeth Scott (Loving You, 1957) is also in this movie, playing Mary Carroll.

Dean Martin, Lizabeth Scott and Jerry Lewis in "Scared Stiff" (1953)

Elvis photographed in 1954.

CREDITS FOR THIS POST: Ernst Jorgensen and his amazing book, "Elvis Presley: A Life in Music", one of my favorites which I keep at reach all times; for the Sun Records and RCA's 1954 single sleeves and respective release dates: elvis100percent.com and Discogs; for pictures: IMDb.com and Pinterest, for movie and song info, Wikipedia and elvisthemusic.com, and for the recordings, Youtube.

[sometimesiamhappy]

🎵🎶 Mamãe eu quero, mamãe eu quero,

Mamãe eu quero mamar...

Dá chupeta, dá chupeta, dá chupeta pro bebê não chorar 🎶🎵 ... I Want My Mama (Carmen Miranda) 😄❤👶💃

[cchsunday]

Still from Scared Stiff, 1953.

[make-a-little-mischief]

🎥 MOVIE OF THE WEEK 🎞

🎃 HALLOWEEN EDITION 🎃

👻 SCARED STIFF 🏰

Brought to you by SCREAM Martin and SCARY Lewis

[citizenscreen]

I will be thinking a lot about my mother today, Jerry Lewis day on #SummerUnderTheStars She adored his shenanigans. In her honor I recommend:

8:00 AM At War With the Army (1950)

10:00 AM Sailor Beware (1951)

12:00 PM Scared Stiff (1953)

2:00 PM You’re Never Too Young (1955)

4:00 PM The Caddy (1953)

[theamericanfriend1977]

You killed a perfect stranger?

Nobody's perfect.

JERRY LEWIS and partner DEAN MARTIN in SCARED STIFF (1953)

[technicolor-times]

Jerry Lewis and Carmen Miranda on set of scared stiff (1953)

[fredandginger64]

Scared Stiff 1953

[luzzarm]

SHIP NEWS - Laughs envoys bound for England

Dean MARTIN and Jerry LEWIS on board of Queen Elisabeth promoting their film "Scared Stiff"

June 1953

[gatutor]

Jerry Lewis-Carmen Miranda-Dean Martin "Una herencia de miedo" (Scared stiff) 1953, de George Marshall.

[sometimesiamhappy]

Scared Stiff - 1953

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ❤

[make-a-little-mischief]

It's time for another random Jerry photo inspired by what my mum was watching tonight - this time it's Jer & Carmen being cute during Scared Stiff 😘❤️

[jerrylewis-thekid]

Dressed as a Mexican, a cowboy, a … gondolier. With his Mediterranean look (curly dark hair) he looked very good that way. Everything … except jacket, tie and that damn glass in hand.

(I pretend I don't notice his arm resting comfortably on Jerry's shoulder blade and chest)

[sharkmiral]

Norman freeman

#Norman freeman movie#

#Norman freeman series#

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#Norman freeman tv#

The show was the top-rated TV show from 1971-1976. That same year, Lear and Yorkin produced All in the Family, which premiered on CBS.Norman Lear sent this photo of himself in uniform to his Emerson College classmates in 1944. In 1971, Lear made his directorial debut with Cold Turkey, starring Dick Van Dyke.Lear received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Emerson College in 1968.Lear would take his older daughters to dinner dances at the Biltmore Los Angeles, something he sorely misses.In 1967, Lear earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay for Divorce American Style, a film he wrote and produced.In 1963, Lear and Bud Yorkin produced their first film together, titled Come Blow Your Horn.This was his first time serving as producer for a TV pilot. In 1961, Lear produced Band of Gold on CBS.

#Norman freeman series#

Produced by Revue Studios, the Western series starred Henry Fonda.

Lear created his first television series, The Deputy, in 1959.

Lear teamed up with Bud Yorkin to found Tandem Productions in 1959.

One of the first times Lear wrote for a project alone was in 1957, for The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show.

At a farewell party at writer Bud Yorkin’s house before NBC’s comedy shows were set to move from New York to LA, Lear, writing partner Ed Simmons, Yorkin, and guests wrote a song celebrating the laying of the transcontinental coaxial cable – the communications system making the move possible.

Although the program was quickly canceled, the opportunity gave Lear the platform to transition to producer of NBC’s The Martha Raye Show in 1955.

In 1954, Lear began writing for Honestly, Celeste! a CBS sitcom created by Celeste Holm.

#Norman freeman movie#

Lear received his first screenwriting credit in 1953 for his contributions to Scared Stiff, a horror movie about a nightclub singer and a busboy who run to a Caribbean island after being charged with murder.Beginning in the 1950s, Lear and Ed Simmons, his cousin Elaine’s husband, began writing comedy sketches for Martin and Lewis on the Colgate Comedy Hour, where they each received a record-breaking $52,000 for five episodes of content.In 1951, Lear became a staff writer for NBC’s Ford Star Revue, a variety and comedy show.So all I wanted was to grow up to be a guy who could flip a quarter to a nephew.”Ī teenage Norman Lear in a photo from his Emerson College application. He was a press agent so I wanted to be a press agent. “My dad had a brother, Jack, who flipped me a quarter every time he saw me. In an interview in 2009, he revealed that his Uncle Jack influenced this career choice. After he was discharged from the Army in 1945, Lear pursued a career in public relations.Lear flew a total of 52 combat missions and was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters for his service.He also was a radio operator/gunman on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress vehicles. In the army, Lear was part of the 772nd Bombardment Squadron in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.“I miss normality and Emerson (though I hardly mean to imply the two are in any way connected).” While training for the Army at the University of Buffalo, Lear “organized a Band, Orchestra, Glee Club and took over the Detachment Newspaper,” he wrote to his Emerson classmates.Lear left Emerson in 1942 to join the United States Army Air Force during World War II.Lear studied theatre at Emerson and was in Gertrude Binley Kay’s drama class when he learned that Pearl Harbor had been bombed.While at Emerson, Lear lived in an all-male boarding house on Clarendon Street in Boston.In a 2016 interview with Emerson Today, nearly 75 years after he left college, Lear sang Emerson’s school song – in tune.The winning speech he delivered, “The Constitution and Me,” detailed what the Constitution meant to Lear as a Jewish person. He was able to attend, he has said, after he won an American Legion oratory scholarship. After graduating from Weaver High School in Hartford, Connecticut in 1940, Lear attended Emerson College.“And that was my option: sink or swim,” he said. When Lear lived with his uncle in New Haven he read Horatio Alger’s Sink or Swim, which he claims inspired him to overcome difficulties in his life.He grew up in a Jewish household, and had a Bar Mitzvah.Norman Lear was born on Jin New Haven, Connecticut.To celebrate, Emerson Today compiled a list of facts about Lear – one for each year of his remarkable life. On July 27, 2022, Norman Lear ‘44, one of Emerson’s most illustrious alumni and the person who arguably did more than anyone else to shape television in the 20th century, turns 100.