Sullivan's Travels (4/9) Movie CLIP - Meeting the Girl (1941) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Dressed as a hobo, Sully (Joel McCrea) is shown compassion by a beautiful, but disillusioned young woman (Veronica Lake.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
In Preston Sturges' classic comedy of Depression-era America, filmmaker John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), fed up with directing profitable comedies like "Ants in Your Plants of 1939," is consumed with the desire to make a serious social statement in his upcoming film, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Unable to function in the rarefied atmosphere of Hollywood, Sullivan decides to hit the road, disguised as a tramp, and touch base with the "real" people of America. But Sullivan's studio transforms his odyssey into a publicity stunt, providing the would-be nomad with a luxury van, complete with butler (Robert Greig) and valet (Eric Blore). Advised by his servants that the poor resent having the rich intrude upon them, Sullivan escapes his retinue and continues his travels incognito. En route, he meets a down-and-out failed actress (Veronica Lake). Experiencing firsthand the scroungy existence of real-life hoboes, Sullivan returns to Hollywood full of bleeding-heart fervor. After first arranging for the girl's screen test, he heads for the railyards, intending to improve the lot of the local rail-riders and bindlestiffs by handing out ten thousand dollars in five-dollar bills. Instead, Sullivan is coldcocked by a tramp, who steals Sullivan's clothes and identification. When the tramp is run over by a speeding train, the world at large is convinced that the great John L. Sullivan is dead. Meanwhile, the dazed Sullivan, dressed like a bum with no identification on his person, is arrested and put to work on a brutal Southern chain gang. With its almost Shakespearean combination of uproarious comedy and grim tragedy, Sullivan's Travels is Sturges' masterpiece and one of the finest movies about movies ever made.
CREDITS:
TM & © Universal (1941)
Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake
Director: Preston Sturges
Producers: Paul Jones, Buddy G. DeSylva, Preston Sturges
Screenwriter: Preston Sturges
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[@MillaHead]

Wow, this dialogue is like music to my ears.

[@alanbehrens4231]

Preston Sturges was a master at writing dialog.

[@joeyandiamo9615]

I tell people all the time the dialogue today cannot beat the dialogue written from this movie era 1940s-1950s. These movies are my fave and are just such dying works of art.

[@shakeandjake_1]

She's only 18-19 here, but is commanding the screen. Amazing talent.

[@yepheth]

Yes, a true talent, underrated maybe because overwhelmed by her beauty? In according by biography Not too easy to come along or work with.

[@82easyrider]

@@yepheth she didn't give two hoots about the domineering studio execs back then. So she's often labelled as "not easy to work with". For me, that made her sexier.

[@klawis]

I like their dialogue so consistent and very pleasing to hear

[@NeuralNetProcessor]

Her voice, her eyes, her quick wit, she was an amazing actress and beautiful too. Too bad she drank her way to oblivion.

[@friederikemenke5507]

She drank too much because she was too intelligent to accept reality

[@jerrypeukert5732]

@@friederikemenke5507 That's my excuse

[@keythdanielsen5533]

The curse of the Irish

[@ThiloBauer]

@@friederikemenke5507 In my german hometown there was a saying "Dummheit frisst, Intelligenz säuft" ("Stupidity overeats, intelligence boozes." True words of yours.

[@user-nf6zs4sw7y]

​@@ThiloBauera good German phrase

[@memphisward]

This is a true movie star! Just gorgeous and her voice!

[@Lockbar]

she was amazingly charming

[@DanTDrac]

Veronica Lake was one of a kind.

[@nile8146]

it sounds like somewhat real dialogue, something i personally haven't heard much in old hollywooed

[@mercaptopropyl]

I still can't believe she was 6 months pregnant in this. And still mesmerizing.

[@ivette6628]

Yay-yay well back then they did think smoking was pretty healthy

[@bravesoul5743]

@@ivette6628 They did not know back then its really bad 😔

[@yespls4184]

@@ivette6628 unfortunately she lost the child after this :(

[@mattbernabe]

If known the name and look of Veronica Lake (mainly cause of L.A. Confidential), but I never really observed her very well until recently. I just began to realize how drop dead gorgeous she was. Good actress, and think she didn't get the proper role to show her range as an actress. The couple films I've seen her in already are very good. I'm about to see 'Sullivan Travels' soon.

[@alib3208]

She is absolutely breathtaking

[@BigDawwg213]

She was absolutely beautiful a graceful scorpio woman!

[@jc6594]

Today Commemorates Veronica Lake's 100th Birthday

[@7arboreal]

She really was mesmerising.

[@oldnick9232]

Celebrate the joy and pleasure Veronica Lake gave to thousands of fans and admirers. A great achievement!

[@JorraneReiC]

The film noir beauty. I love everything about her.

[@ToxicSherbetSyringe]

I love her also, I honestly really miss the fast pace of older films

[@Ragnarok-Productions]

she my great grandmother

[@Christian-vz4ry]

@@Ragnarok-Productions omg really how omg if ur being honest that's so cool because I know she has like 3 or 4 kids out there but they are all older

[@oldnick9232]

She played down to earth,straight shooting, glamour. Great form, and everymans dream. Most attractive.

[@deftonesleep1]

Wow. What a beauty.

[@yepheth]

I can't believe Mr. Sullivan is the businnes and has no idea who Ernst Lubitsch is. Veronica Lake's beauty and charm was so incredible overwhelmed her acting skills , that in my opinnion where excellent - expecially in the comedies .

[@noel888]

If you saw the entire movie you would know that he was acting like a hobo because he was in the Hollywood business, rich and all of that, and he wanted to see how the 'other half' live so he didn't want to give his cover way...she didn't know.

[@lelxrv]

I like her voice even more than her looks.

[@memphisward]

Veronica Lake is one of the great movie stars!

[@sethfarmer590]

"I wish I could give you some of the things you need." Has there ever been a truer statement regarding a beautiful woman?

[@yvonaj3493]

Yes, one that is followed by actions 😂

[@kernjames]

What a great movie and Veronica was spectacular.

[@alexis3649]

Although I don't know much about her but I AM BIG FAN OF HER! something about her feels so right for me!

[@Trubrit100]

Her delivery reminds me of Muriel Hemingway in "Manhattan." Quiet and underplayed. I like it!

[@BJ-fj6jw]

Something about black and white and good pure acting

[@Canuckchick32]

Loves Veronica's adorable peek a boo hair! 💛

[@apoloniamarcinek5161]

Wish her career and life went a better way, she was amazing

[@bobdoubter2977]

Film noir queen for sure. Shameful that she did not do more. But, she was working in a very competitive climate. She's one of the few women who can compete with Marilyn Monroe and Olivia De Haviland for raw beauty, biased of course. Gene Tierney is probably, objectively speaking, the most beautiful actress ever.

[@keythdanielsen5533]

Gene Tierney’s beauty was unquestioned.

[@BNCole]

Such a talented beauty, and so tiny as well. Most folks don't realize she was barely 4'10".

[@user-yk5xu8gr1e]

How did she get in at such height…the bar was much higher then 😅

[@BNCole]

@@user-yk5xu8gr1e with that beautiful face, her height was no barrier. Plus, imo, it only adds to her cuteness.

[@mindriot91_96]

@@BNCole I agree. I love petite women. 😍

[@Ooize]

This clip made me buy the DVD. Worth it. :)

[@bgbreakdown]

This is just... so... good!

[@yepheth]

the third actor in the scene often acting the barman part. I remember him in Wise's comedy Somebody Up There Likes Me.

[@iftvproductions]

Its just unusual to hear deceant smart but somehow fast conversation. I think we lost ability to talk, we text and don't talk anymore much, it's like we looking a sense of personal touch, becoming more of like empty shell, just a thought

[@nancybogart3899]

ALEX ---- let me SAY - really dude your WRITING IS DAMN PERFECT... hit me back ... please thank you.

[@paulomachado2513]

I'm impressed with Randy Quaid . He aged surprisingly well all those years !

[@jc6594]

Today Commemorates Veronica Lake's 95th Birthday

[@konniemac316]

I love her. Such a shame mental illness and alcoholism ruined her.

[@capitalswish]

+omar nasir alcohol is a drug

[@steamboatwill3.367]

You always lose, lose, lose. - Mark Borchart.

[@citylights1987]

Director had to fight to get her this role. Hollywood felt she couldn’t act and definitely couldn’t do comedy. I think they were pleasantly surprised.

[@ralfbeckmann597]

Beautiful Veronica

[@babbisp1]

This location reminds me of an area in A Wonderful Life.

[@stevehartman1730]

She deserved better. I love her.

[@oldnick9232]

A Mirage in a desert.

[@Vejur9000]

Veronica Lake was the tiniest little thing, yet she became a movie goddess. I think beautiful women have had to deal with studio wolves for ages, from Rita, to Marilyn to Veronica. The real person, vs. the fantasy... must have been a crushing part of that fame. “Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda, but woke up with me” - Rita Hayworth

[@jaqatlantic]

In my opinion--not that anyone asked--this was her best film.

[@82easyrider]

Its funny how the reference here is Ernst Lubitsch, who I believe was a contemporary to Preston Sturges. They could have been friends too?

[@gonwest]

They'll never be able to make movies like this again. Sigh..

[@shangpush]

Great snappy dialogue. I'm guessing that young people today wouldn't appreciate at all the wit and dry humor of this scene.

[@semiramisbonaparte1627]

I do. I love this movie

[@redwolf481]

I'm an actor and writer and on first oberservation the dialogue comes off painfully acty and script tries too hard to be witty. I feel like I'm watching a high school drama class right now

[@shangpush]

@@redwolf481 Well, it's artifice for sure. I think that's part of what makes Sturges so precious and fun. He combines generes in a mash-up of styles. He's over the top with his tongue in his cheek. That's entertainment.

[@skeletorlikespotatoes7846]

​@@redwolf481 clearly you're not a good one. This scene did exactly what it was trying to do. It was well done. Could be better of course...but you clearly don't know much about this style.

[@redwolf481]

@@skeletorlikespotatoes7846 lol i forgot about this comment. A year later watching this again. I still feel the same way. This is terrible. You know what's interesting, i never understood Marlon Brando impact on acting till now till i see a scene like this where it's a completely unbelievable line reading. Two humans would never talk like this. I can see the author writing it out trying to be clever vs potray two people. It's bad.

[@tomitstube]

what a babe.

[@terenceflanagan1225]

Yes , she was tiny and very pretty. But her voice ..her presence is whats really amazing. Apparently she was hard fi eitk with . I think being so young and knowing what you want but struggling with her own issues would do that. I wish..i think i could have put up with her .

[@edjopago1]

Veronica ^^

[@gonzalofelixwhartonchavez6039]

Priceless Lupita dalessio the biónica woman entrance

[@michaelemory552]

“…sitting in an owl wagon…” I never heard that one before, or after. Veronica/Constance, I am smitten. Yikes! Wish she had been happier.

[@AlehandrosArhangelos]

My goodness she grabbed him from the neck!

[@ariqarisya]

Production Companies: Warner Bros. (current owner) EMKA Group (current owner) Paramount Pictures (Distributor and Presentation) Paul Jones Productions (production)

[@phoenixwillington7329]

This gives me Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood vibes

[@maksimdettori5674]

here after reading this in the book "on the road"

[@Streetw1s3r]

You can really hear the Brooklyn in her accent. I'm Australian and the Brooklyn accent is my favourite of all America.

[@lylegerard8395]

Joel was quite handsome at that age!

[@BMG19FUNNYDIE]

Young women when sad are sure cute.

[@harrycarrey1225]

A lot of people dont realize that Veronica Lake was the mother of River Phoenix and wrote the script On Golden Pond.

[@GoldenBearBecca]

Harry Carrey that's because it's a lie.

[@Ma_Ba]

Everyone thinks they're a comedian. Fun with your moniker too. Read the IMDb mini bio entry by and about Edie McClurg for this genre done well.

[@WilliamHorsley1962]

She passed at 50 in 1973. Had 3 children 1 died. She wasn't his Mom.

[@WilliamHorsley1962]

I thought everyone got the joke but me

[@Ma_Ba]

@@WilliamHorsley1962 That's sweet.

[@amyclarke41]

heard of her through la confidential 😎

[@FernandoLopez-tx6lr]

sexiest icon ever, heartbreaker 4e

[@erichinkle7347]

What a gorgeous woman Veronica Lake was, and all the ugliness that Hollywood and her stage mom mother did to her.

[@yepheth]

Sullivan doesn't know who Ernst Lubitsch is? Or simply he's acting too well the hobo's part?

[@advancedraymondology2914]

When today's hysterical crowd shame some old actor for having dated a much younger woman, and people defend them with "it was a different time"...this is what they mean. Lake was NINETEEN here. Would anyone deny she had the presence of a fully grown woman? Yeah, it was a different time all right. Maybe social media is rotting their brains or something, but nineteen-year-olds today seem like children compared to this woman. Edit: actually, after watching and reading some stuff about poor Ms. Lake by the 1950s...maybe things ARE better now. Some of the best women I've known hadn't even really come into their own until their mid-thirties. For poor Veronica, it was already all over by then. There's a very depressing interview with her on here, aged 29: she looks, sounds, and seems like, by anyone's standards, a middle-aged woman. Things happened too fast. A beautiful, fully mature-seeming woman by her late teens, old and washed up by thirty, dead by fifty! That certainly wasn't "better."

[@chrishultgren777]

Women lie about their age. At 4'11" she could be 35 years old here, and no one would believe she wasn't 19. She looked about 65 in 1972. She quit acting right about the time she would have been approaching menopause.

[@alexandrastratanphotographer]

they don't get born like that anymore,

[@strangersname]

Love your phrasing!

[@K4R3N]

Don't make 'em like her anymore. Enjoyed this film

[@aaronbynum8968]

what's amazing about this time period women were strong but still feminine, and men treated them with respect but still not like they were dainty and too delicate.

[@nile8146]

Aaron Bynum are you serious?

[@themiserykid]

I nearly cracked a rib laughing at "men treated them with respect"

[@gusterguy01826]

This is a movie, not a fly on the wall looking into a genuine interaction between two individuals in a restaurant

[@LizziesLukas]

something that will be missed in today's film is the overlapping dialogue... one character didn't even finished his/her sentence before the other starts interrupting with even bigger wit... no matter how nonsensical the dialogue is

[@tianapitesr8553]

What do you think were her best films?

[@kristenwestergaard1254]

+Tiana Pi Tesr Sullivan's Travels, I Married a Witch, This Gun for Hire

[@yepheth]

the glass key wasn't bad too. Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake = perfect match.

[@aliali-ce3yf]

she looks like Anette O' Toole

[@miguelangelwhartonchavez2467]

Lupita dalessio/the bionic woman

[@nikjaric5442]

very hot in this sequence she is talking new york style

[@leafyutube]

They made this chick look like Kim Basinger in L.A. Confidential. haha

[@mikosharp]

The fact is that Kim Basinger's role in L.A Confidential is kind of a tribute to Veronica Lake. And there's a scene when a police officer tells her, "You look better than Veronica Lake. Imo Veronica is much more gorgeous tho.

[@robertcooke1774]

you,ve got that the wrong way round leafyutube.

[@Ma_Ba]

@@robertcooke1774 The entry ends with "ha ha" so if they know how to read the year on this film, let's believe that was putting out the joke with a wink and a nod.

[@WilliamHorsley1962]

They made Kim Basinger to look like her.

[@gravytopic]

In L.A. confidential she played a prostitute whose pimp was a guy whose gimmick was women who looked like movie starts. Basinger was the prostitute who looked like Lake.

[@gonzalofelixpanchowhartons4993]

The best scene of this flick-00bc-2099@d-ms. Lake steals the film. Only her scenes, erase the rest.

[@CatharticCreation]

She seems like a teenager masquerading as an older woman.

[@kendollgt]

CatharticCreation she was! I think she was 18 or 19 when this was shot. He was 35.

[@cathypeterson2420]

I like this she wasPerfec in this him to ha.oh ham n eggs sound good

[@andreswharton7269]

lupita dalessio/ la mujer bionica steals film

[@snoogen73083]

Why was I recommended this?

[@studtimmie]

Tell me she doesnt remind you guys of Blake lively... Their acting is similar, similar laugh.

[@hemsworthgodess5982]

She reminds a bit of Amber Heard as well

[@Madbandit77]

Annette O'Toole

[@michaelmclaughlin261]

Oooohhh.... Remake with her and Ryan Reynolds. ;)

[@nikjaric5442]

how guys like him ever got in films beats me ? theres about a billion better guys on any given day alot of hollywood failed due to these type of guys

[@Willismcnillis]

She is the most beautiful creature that God ever created.

[@BrianBattles]

Beautiful, but such stilted acting

[@WilliamHorsley1962]

That sounds like the actors of today not then.

[@cisbio682]

I'm sorry, but Veronica Lake has always struck as a beautiful, tragic woman - and a lousy actress. In this clip, her delivery of great lines is wooden and mechanical - am I the only one?

[@citylights1987]

I think she owned this scene.

[@frankabler]

Yes, you are the only one. Veronica Lake was a competent actress. Give her some credit here. She was only 18 years old in this film. Pretty good to be only 18 years old and go toe-to-toe with a well established actor like Joel McCrea. To call Veronica Lake a "lousy actress" is quite a bizarre statement.

[@redwolf481]

No your not. The scene comes off like a high school performance. The writing tries too hard and the actors are just spitting out there lines mechanically

[@Tetramastbad]

Was just about to blind buy pre-order this on Amazon, but now won't be bothering. This acting is woeful. Shockingly bad.

[@cky1088]

Sorry this isn't some Twilight big blockbuster with a script written for five year old "Knuckle heads" like your pathetic self.

[@Tetramastbad]

Dexter Booey Why apologise? It's not your fault the acting is shit.

[@Lincoln2000]

knuckle head In my opinion the acting is as good as it could be it that movie. There's a reason for the fact that it's considered among the best movies of all time by a lot of critics (I would say the same, but I guess my opinion just isn't as important as the opinion of someone who's a real expert). But of course anyone has a little subjectivity in his point of view on movies. So a lot of people would say that "A Clockwork Orange" is one of the best movies ever or at least in the top 100, but in my opinion it's a piece of shit. So of course no one can force you to like "Sullivan's Travels", but I don't think that anyone can really criticize the acting. In general the acting in the 1940's was different. It doesn't matter which movie you take as an example. All the so called best movies of that time are different when it comes to acting.

[@Tetramastbad]

Lincoln2000 I appreciate that the acting in the 19402 was "different", but this still comes across as very amatuerish. Some of my fave films are "oldies" ; "The Red Shoes", "Double Indemnity", "Lost Weekend" etc. The acting is superb in those films. |"Sullivans Travels" just seems too forced for me. I don't really rate "A Clockwork Orange" either. The music is good though.

[@Lincoln2000]

knuckle head "Double Indemnity" is in fact a great movie and the acting is awesome, that is true; especially Edward G. Robinson's acting was outstanding. I don't know the other two movies you mentioned, even though I know a lot of 1940's movies, but I will take a look at them. Well, I really like Joel McCrea in general. For some reason his charisma transports a very positive and charming feeling/ atmosphere, at least from my point of view. And another thing is that I think that the story ist great, the direction and a few other things about that movie, too, which let it belong to my personal favorites in the end. I find that it's very refreshing (I'm not sure if that's the word you would use in the english language and as you may have noticed my english is not too good), but leads to a few deeper thoughts too. So it is a combination of comedy and drama and also has moments which are a homage to motion picture as itself. As I said before that is a least what I see (said in only a very few words) in that movie. But as I said in my last comment there is always a little subjectivity in what someone sees in a movie.

[@redssmith6739]

Lake was adorable,, gorgeous and then the needle with cocaine and smack killed her