The Dual Roles Blogathon: Day 2 Recap

Another marvelous day! I wanted to thank Ruth of Silver Screenings for co-hosting this blogathon with me and making it such a success (and for making the lovely posters). And thank you, everyone, for also making it a success!

In The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood shows how Elizabeth Montgomery played both Samantha and Serena in the show Bewitched.
Mirco-Brewed Reviews gives us Beach Dickerson and the Fine Art of Getting Yourself Killed, Multiple Times, in Roger Corman’s Teenage Caveman (1958).

Cary Grant Won’t Eat You covers Meg Ryan’s three roles in Meg Ryan’s Fate Foretold in Joe Versus the Volcano.

Silver Screenings reviews Peter Seller’s in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Champagne for Lunch shows how “2 Howard Keels are Better than 1” in Callaway Went Thataway. 

Moon in Gemini covers Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh’s dual roles in Dead Again.

The Wonderful World of Cinema writes of Genevieve Bujold in Brian De Palma’s Obsession.

Mikes Take on the Movies thrills and chills with good and evil Boris Karloff in The Black Room.

 

The Dual Roles Blogathon: Day 1 Recap

I’m seeing double! In this case, it’s a positive thing. Thanks so much everyone for helping get Day 1 of the Dual Roles Blogathon off to a fantastic start. If you don’t see your post recapped today, don’t worry. We will make sure we include it in tomorrow’s recap.

Thoughts All Sorts gives us Cillian Murphy as Emma and John Skillpa in Peacock.  

Plain, Simple Tom Reviews presents Lee Marvin twice over in Cat Ballou.

The Movie Rat shows the unique challenges facing a child actor in a dual role in The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Twenty Four Frames reviews Brian De Palma’s Sisters.

Realweegiemidget Reviews writes about Tom Hardy as the real-life gangster twins in Legend.

MovieMovieBlogBlog gives us TWO films with multiple role playing: first with Buster Keaton in The Playhouse and next with Laurel and Hardy in Our Relations.

Once Upon a Screen writes about A Double Dose of Elvis: Kissin Cousins.

Love Letters to Old Hollywood writes about the dual roles Rock Hudson plays in both Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back.

Anna, Look! explores the two roles of Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood.

B Noir Detour writes about Bette Davis as twins in Dead Ringer.

Cinematic Scribblings writes of the three roles Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni assay in Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

Pop Culture Pundit explores how David Lynch uses dual roles in his film, Mulholland Drive.

Silent-ology gives us the comedic genius of Constance Talmadge in two roles in Her Sister From Paris.

Cinema Cities writes about Deborah Kerr’s three roles in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

 

Sorry for the Absence of Posts!

I’ve suddenly become really busy in the past few weeks and feel a bit guilty about the sharp drop off of posts. It’s not for lack of things to write about. I’ve planned a post about Frank Capra, big band music, the 1968 The Planet of the Apes, and Citizen Kane. I just haven’t had time to write them. I think they’re going to trickle out a bit slowly. Come early September, instead of the three posts a week I used to write, I’m going to write two…but they should at least be regularly released.

I just wanted everyone to know that although my posts may be a bit spotty in the next few weeks, I am not abandoning writing!

In lieu of real posts, I thought I would share this video. It is from Down Argentine Way with the Nicholas Brothers, who seemed to combine in the most perfect way class with acrobatics and tap dancing.