Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee


Jack Oakie wrote an autobiography in his last years and mentioned playing Tweedle-Dum in this film. Sounds like it wasn't a pleasant memory. The masks he and Roscoe Karns had to wear were made of rubber and spanned about two feet across, and they were applied directly to the actors' faces with "pots of heavy black glue." It took hours to get ready for their scenes, and once the masks were on Oakie and Karns couldn't remove them until evening. The only way they could eat was to sip soup through long straws made of glass. According to Oakie's book, on one occasion he and Karns spent their lunch break sipping something a lot stronger than soup, after which Oakie walked into a standing light fixture and knocked it over.

I gather W.C. Fields wasn't comfortable in his Humpty-Dumpty makeup either, and performed his scene in a similar condition . . .

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But the perfomances were excellent!

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Especially Fields. I bet it was torture for him although he is brilliant


Oh GOOD!,my dog found the chainsaw

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No wonder he fell off the wall!

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