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A while back I made mention of Phyllis Diller, and the fact my mother was a fan of hers. This weekend we watched Who Killed the Electric Car? and by chance Diller appears in it for a few moments.
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The next video in the Petula series is from the 1949 movie, The Huggetts Abroad; abroad being South Africa. This song, “Doodle Oodle Day”, is even sillier than the nonsensical “Walking Backwards” in the previous post.
Yikes! It’s been over two months since I posted part 2 of this movie. In part 3 it’s apparent where the look of the sets in Star Trek came from. Director Byron Haskin recycled the spaceships and sound effects from his earlier film, War of the Worlds.
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As promised, here is the start of a Petula Clark video retrospective. This brief scene is from 1948, with Pet at 15 in Here Come the Huggetts, the first in a series about the fictional Huggetts family.
Pet was England’s “Singing Sweetheart,” and she seems here to be a cross between Shirley Temple and Judy Garland. She carries it off, but having sifted through more than 30 video clips of Petula, it seems she had to be quite a chameleon to keep her career moving. I would conjecture the real Petula didn’t show herself until she was closing in on 40.
