Breakdowns of 1937

The Warner Bros. annual blooper reel for 1937.
Featuring Humphrey Bogart, George Brent, Bette Davis, Glenda Farrell, Errol Flynn, Dick Foran, Kay Francis, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Boris Karloff, Barton MacLane, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Claude Rains, etc.

[@domainofthesun4400]

The contrast between the artificial line delivery and the relaxed naturalness of the breakdowns is striking

[@saxongirl2054]

"artificial delivery" is what acting was supposed to be and I much prefer that over marlon brandon and the method.

[@linkfan160]

It is endlessly entertaining to see all of these "legendary" stars flub their lines and swear like sailors.

[@mazzymuso]

Love Claude Rains here "I don't know!" Ha ha.

[@rem2267]

I think its safe to say that "Goddammit" was the preferred curse word for actors and actresses for the 1930's and 1940's.

[@alonenjersey]

The same can be said for the word: 'NUTS!"

[@tomitstube]

i'm guessing the great bette davis is yelling at herself, the "last one" probably refers to her ending the lip sync before the voice ends. i wish her rant wouldn't have been cut off.

[@philipmonihan8222]

That whole thing with Dick Foran not being able to raise his ass of the ground became a bit of a tradition, didn't it.

[@philipmonihan8222]

Alan Hale Sr in period dress?!?!

[@OFFICIALGUSRICHLEN]

And his inability to get his ass off the ground begins.

[@looneywoman]

I'd love to see a Breakdown blooper reel from 1943 surface. I'd love to see if there were any "Casablanca"-bloopers!

[@oywidapoodles]

I'm surgeon, goddamit! XD

[@AnthonySmith-ty7ij]

Some of the films seen included Sh! The Octopus, Green Light, The Charge of the Light Brigade, West of Shanghai, San Quentin, Kid Galahad, Gold Diggers of 1937, The Prince and the Pauper, etc.

[@TotzkeMike]

I'd love to know a) why Bette is so pissed off; & b) at WHO.

[@davidmoser3535]

she was always pissed about something

[@thewomaninthemoon]

Yeah that's Bette,I remember that part of Kid Galahad.

[@NEPatriot]

Boy these blooper reels came even before Dick Clark had his famed bloopers shows in the 1980's.

[@nicoley132]

Hugh Herbert drives me crazy, yes he does.

[@nicoley132]

@ragingbull888 I think it might be a movie called Marry the Girl (1937). The two guys in the scene are Hugh Herbert and Alan Mowbray.

[@sspdirect02]

1:05 Boris Karloff

[@AnthonySmith-ty7ij]

West of Shanghai 1937

[@nicoley132]

Gotta be dubbed. But Bette did do some singing here and there. In the movie Thank Your Lucky Stars she puts over "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" okay, for instance. I'm sure someone who's a much bigger Bette fan than I am might have more to say on the subject.

[@fromthesidelines]

The 1937 "Looney Tunes" theme is used here.

[@nicoley132]

Kid Galahad (1937) probably -- for part of that film she has a job as a nightclub singer or something.

[@scotnick59]

Liked Pat O'Brien, but boy, he flubbed his lines like mad

[@ragingbull888]

@nicoley132 thanks, what about the film at 4:07?

[@mysecondemailatl]

This is a guess "that's man's here again"

[@nicoley132]

Yep, hard to mistake that voice. :)

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Didn't this conclude with the closing version of "Porky Signature"?

[@NSHG]

Looks like it doesn't, instead using the variant from Porky's Duck Hunt.

[@blofeld39]

6:30 - "MOI BRAIN HURTS!"

[@theplantmonster]

the language!

[@classicsfan10]

@nauort23 Cary Grant was British, not American.

[@Arbitrary6104]

Fail compilation 1937

[@nauort23]

@aryay00 Yes, it definitely evolved from those dialects/accents--and others, no doubt. I've known many people who learned/speak British English (even as a second language) who find the Southern accent easier to understand because the vowels and the "r" are closer to the standard Brit pronunciation.

[@daydreamerjane]

Could be whoever applauded came in too early for that scene.

[@jnadle1]

It used the Looney Tunes theme from that year.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Jason Nadle Before they used the "Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" as its "Looney Tunes" anthem. The music during the end title was from "Porky's Duck Hunt".

[@NeffSang]

+Jason Nadle the theme was from Porky And Gabby (1937)

[@Musicradio77Network]

"Porky & Gabby" was one of 2 WB cartoons made by Ub Iwerks. "Porky's Badtime Story" was not done by Ub Iwerks, it was by Bob Clampett.

[@nicoley132]

@ragingbull888 Not sure about that one, sorry. :)

[@nicoley132]

Not quite 100% sure, but it does look like Miss Bette Davis. A not very happy Miss Davis, haha.

[@2idiot2animate28]

6:37

[@cuzblueyes]

what movie was that at 4:09? thanks

[@mysecondemailatl]

This is a guess "that's man's here again"???

[@ragingbull888]

what's the movie at 3:25

[@AnthonySmith-ty7ij]

I think it's Shh the Octopus

[@nauort23]

You are indeed confused and a sponge. Vivien Leigh is about the only performer in GWTW who does a decent Southern accent.; she sounds like my mother who grew up in Virginia. Off and on for 37 years, I've lived in the "mid-atlantic," which supposedly produced the accents of C. Grant and Grace Kelly--who both sounded like they learned to speak from failed actresses who ran drama schools, and certainly NOT like anyone from DC to Philadelphia that I've EVER heard. K. Hepburn was from New England.

[@nauort23]

Being a southerner, I think I know a little more about southern accents than you (who clearly arent' even a native speaker) and most of the internet crowd. No one need or "should respect" your misinformed, biased and rude opinion that "southern accent doesn't sound that sophisticated and classy." I imagine you think South Boston sounds like Tumbridge Wells? Scarlett O'Hara is a rich girl born in the middle of the 19th Century. Do you really think she's supposed to talk like Huckleberry Hound?