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What's the verdict on Saratoga with Gable and Harlow?
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:05 pm
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Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:10 pm to prplhze2000
The movie from 1937?
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:37 pm to prplhze2000
This may be your craziest post yet
How many people here have even heard of Saratoga? Much less seen it.
For those unfamiliar w/Saratoga (most of the board I presume), Harlow died during production, and the studio finished the film w/a stand-in shot from behind.
Some buffs have watched it just for these scenes, similar to the game of watching Raintree County to pick out which M. Clift scenes were before or after his car wreck.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:41 pm to Kafka
I remember my grandfather watching it when I was a kid. Looked it up and saw the cast.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:47 pm to Kafka
Renal failure at 26. I didn't have to read wikipedia but I think it was from scarlet fever she had as a child. She had some other things going on too.
Didn't they wanna shoot the move over with somebody else but they decided to go ahead with the double because it was almost complete?
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:56 pm to sqerty
quote:I don't know
Didn't they wanna shoot the move over with somebody else
quote:I believe it was about 1/2 to 2/3 shot
but they decided to go ahead with the double because it was almost complete?
Solomon & Sheba (1959) was IIRC about 2/3 shot when star Tyrone Power died. Rather than do a Saratoga, producers reshot his scenes w/Yul Brynner
Posted on 7/12/25 at 9:28 pm to Kafka
In a similar vein, Lionel Atwill died when the serial "Lost City of the Jungle" (1946-Universal) was being filmed, with him cast as the main villain. The studio used the footage of him they shot (no way were they going to do expensive re-shooting on a cheapie serial). Then, they used a double, shot from the backside, and gradually shifted the main villainy to another character altogether as the chapters progressed.
Another example I can think of was in Erich von Stroheim's "Foolish Wives" (1922). Some gent playing the husband of one of the secondary characters died in the middle of production, and they brought in another actor, who didn't necessarily resemble him all that much, to finish up with.
Oh? As for "Saratoga" (1937)? Bland, typical MGM artifice. A better Harlow would be "Bombshell" (1933). Or, switch over to Columbia Studios for "Platinum Blonde" (1931).
Another example I can think of was in Erich von Stroheim's "Foolish Wives" (1922). Some gent playing the husband of one of the secondary characters died in the middle of production, and they brought in another actor, who didn't necessarily resemble him all that much, to finish up with.
Oh? As for "Saratoga" (1937)? Bland, typical MGM artifice. A better Harlow would be "Bombshell" (1933). Or, switch over to Columbia Studios for "Platinum Blonde" (1931).
Posted on 7/12/25 at 9:34 pm to Aeolian Vocalion
quote:w/a great performance by Robert Williams, who died shortly before it was released. A lost star.
switch over to Columbia Studios for "Platinum Blonde" (1931)
Posted on 7/12/25 at 9:38 pm to Aeolian Vocalion
quote:Does Plan 9 count?
In a similar vein
Lugosi died, so to use his footage Ed Wood had a guy walk around w/a cloak covering his face
Posted on 7/12/25 at 9:45 pm to Kafka
Indeed. Also shows off how gorgeous Loretta Young was in her early days. I always make a beeline for pre-code Loretta Young. "Zoo in Budapest" (1933) is a gem.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 10:38 pm to Aeolian Vocalion
This movie also has Walter Pidgeon, Lionel Barrymore, And the Hattie McDaniel
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