slaytonf Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 First: A staple in movies of all times. But never employed better than in the studio era. And practiced by none better than Edward Everett Horton, who refined it into a fine art: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Sepiatone 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twokeets Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 How about Marie Dressler doing a double take when the Jean Harlow character says she was reading a book the other day, in Dinner at Eight? That always makes me laugh. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Ha! Yeah, that's long been one of my favorite takes AND ending lines in a movie. Sepiatone 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det Jim McLeod Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 I liked Cary Grant looking in the window seat in Arsenic And Old Lace. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fausterlitz Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 I'm a big fan of Billy Gilbert's double takes, which always seem to be believable expressions of an endearing but naturally slow-on-the-uptake character, rather than being artificially milked for effect. For example, this memorable scene from His Girl Friday, starting around the 1:04 mark of this clip (and also at the very end): Frank Morgan and Harold Lloyd also spring to mind as masters of this sort of "naturalistic" double-take. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Matthau. Pelham. Leave it at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aritosthenes Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 American Fable. At the (Very) End of This Fantastic Indie (soft core) horror Gem; The Heroine of This Stellar Tale is in a barn, behind her house; tending to a deer she accidentally hit. She Here's a Comotion outside; steps outside herself, and is met by an Absolutely Amazing, Extraordinary Visitor. A Visitor Whom She is VERY Familiar. Her Ensuing Expression is Precious and Golden. 🎨 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmnoirguy Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 In 1955's Three for the Show, I love Betty Grable's double take after Jack Lemmon, standing with the ushers handing her flowers during her curtain call, gives her a dozen roses. After she accepts them and turns away, she realizes he's her husband who has been Missing-In-Action for the past two years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted April 25, 2022 Author Share Posted April 25, 2022 You can see it here: https://ok.ru/video/262140136043 at about 6:00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Faiola Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 And, then, of course, there's HI DIDDLE DIDDLE! 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted April 26, 2022 Author Share Posted April 26, 2022 Surprised they didn't all give themselves whiplash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsan404 Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 In one of the funniest scenes, Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea finally meet in The More The Merrier 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougieB Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 One of my faves is a double take which occurs when the expected one doesn't, when Joe E. Brown blithely accepts Jack Lemmon's revelation that he's a man, so that Jack has to do a puzzled (and actually probably funnier) double take as a result (in Some Like It Hot, of course). Wilder's clever withholding of Brown's expected reaction adds to the payoff when Lemmon gets the honors. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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