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maxrandb

(17,239 posts) Thu Jan 29, 2026, 04:11 PM 10 hrs ago

"Mr. Bozos, I'm Ready for my Close-up"

After this film, we'll make another, and another, and another.....

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"Mr. Bozos, I'm Ready for my Close-up" (Original Post) maxrandb 10 hrs ago OP

Hitler refugee Billy Wilder co-wrote and directed that: he was originally struggle4progress 10 hrs ago #1

Bozos is going to find out - "in for a penny, in for a pound" maxrandb 9 hrs ago #2

I just watched this again a few days ago. BigmanPigman 5 hrs ago #3

struggle4progress

(125,585 posts)

1. Hitler refugee Billy Wilder co-wrote and directed that: he was originally

Reply to maxrandb (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2026, 04:32 PM

10 hrs ago

a German journalist but switched to film in the late Weimar era before fleeing from Nazi anti-semitism around 1934

maxrandb

(17,239 posts)

2. Bozos is going to find out - "in for a penny, in for a pound"

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 29, 2026, 05:58 PM

9 hrs ago

Do you think he understands that this isn't the last bribe he's gonna have to pay?

BigmanPigman

(54,750 posts)

3. I just watched this again a few days ago.

Reply to maxrandb (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2026, 09:27 PM

5 hrs ago

Edith Head, the costume designer said this was the most difficult films to design costumes for so she relied on Gloria Swanson herself since she actually lived in these clothes in her real life so Head let Swanson guide her designs.

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