#dick wesson

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[oldshowbiz]

Hollywood House (1949) with Dick Wesson and Jim Backus

[theodorebasmanov]

I’ve watched “Calamity Jane” and it’s lovely… but so sexist! Well, anyway it’s better than “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” – here at least nobody was kidnapped, but all that “female thinking” and “woman touch” and the idea that they didn’t think of her as a girl until she took on a dress isn’t good either. But their attitude to her almost as to an equal one (well, almost – is an important word) was quite nice. The songs – not from the stage but just during the action – were good. The whole atmosphere of a tiny western town was also lovely. Oh, how could I forget – racism. Do you want to talk about how was Native Americans portrayed in that movie? Me neither.

[jamesfranciiscagney]

STARLIFT (1951)

[shockyhorror]

Calamity Jane (1953) dir. David Butler

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[mikyapixie]

𝙾𝚗 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟼𝟷, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚎𝚠𝚕𝚢 𝚁𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚆𝚊𝚕𝚝 𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚗𝚎𝚢'𝚜 𝚆𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛 𝙱𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚗 𝙰𝚒𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙾𝚗 𝙽𝙱𝙲!!

[travsd]

What About the Wesson Brothers?

Today would be the 100th birthday of comedian actor Gene Wesson (1921-1975), older brother of Dick Wesson (1922-1996) and together they were the Wesson Brothers. I became aware of them when I came across a clip with Gene Wesson in a comedy routine on a tv variety shows with Keefe Brasselle and naturally I became inqusitive. They are often described as a “vaudeville comedy team”, but they came…

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