Love the Eric Blore scenes, very funny one with Horton and the one with the lady in the cafe. "Whumsical is more whismsical than whamsical, madam". And her response - "Your beginning to fascinate me and I resent that in any man"
shareEric Blore was one of the funniest character actors of the 1930s. Usually typecast as a waiter, butler, or valet, he was so over-the-top nellie that he seemed about to fly right out of the movie screen!
All the universe . . . or nothingness. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?
He was also great in The Lady Eve.
shareEric Blore was wonderful, and it's no coincidence that the non-musical portions of Astaire/Rogers pictures really suffered when he was absent(Follow the Fleet) or underused (Swing Time). (Ditto, of course, for Edward Everett Horton's absence from those two films.) Though my favorite Blore performance, noted by one poster above, was in Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve. His rendition of the Tale of the Coachman's Daughter to a credulous Henry Fonda is classic. "Follow me to yon window embrasure. And say nothing!"
shareHe's swell in Shall We Dance too. We do not have great character actors anymore and its a shame. Everyone wants to be "the star", but it was these supporting actors and actresses who made these films great.
"I say,open this door at once! We're British !"