Hollywood Steps Out is a 1941 short Merrie Melodies cartoon by Warner Bros., directed by Tex Avery. The cartoon features caricatures of Hollywood celebrities from the 1930s and early 1940s including Clark Gable, Wallace Beery, Bing Crosby, Greta Garbo and Groucho Marx.
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Nothing can bring your blood to a boil quicker than an insult assailing your character–whether giving it or receiving it. Following are the 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time, including the King of Putdowns Rodney Dangerfield in Caddy Shack, when he approaches an elderly lady eating dinner in the clubhouse and says, “Hey, baby, you’re alright, you must have been something before electricity.”
Complementing Dangerfield are an animated John Wayne in Rooster Cogburn, John Candy in Uncle Buck, and arguably the most devastating insult on the silver screen of all time–Clark Gable’s classic line in Gone With the Wind: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Because of strong language in some scenes, viewer discretion is advised. See you next Tuesday on LOL for more of the lighter side of life. –The Wickel
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Joan Crawford in the racy MGM movie Dance, Fools, Dance, made in 1931, ahead of the Production Code being enacted. Although she had previously admonished colleagues not to have affairs with their leading men until they appeared in three films together, Crawford violated her own rule by hooking up with her Dance, Fools, Dance co-star Clark Gable, even though this was only their second movie. Afterward, she acknowledged she had to eat her own words, but said they tasted sweet.
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