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Blake Edwards
Posted by Charlie Gordon on 16 December 2010 - 8:38pm.
Blake Edwards, film director and Julie Andrews's husband has died. Whilst his Breakfast at Tiffanys was Audrey Hepburn at her most radiant, I will remember him for providing me with Peter Sellers on a Sunday afternoon being silly in the Pink Panther movies, the first few being sublime and the last couple excessive but still hilarious in parts.
These outtakes make me giggle and especially infectious is Edwards's cackling in the background. And he snaffled Julie Andrews.
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Also directed
the delightfully barmy (though inarguably sexist) Operation Petticoat and elicited a great performance from Jack Lemmon in realistic portrayal of alcoholism in The Days of Wine and Roses
Some of his films
were very underated. 'Skin Deep' has some of the funniest scenes ever...
Victor/Victoria
is a really funny and engaging movie. Blake Edwards was never acclaimed as a great director but given the range, technical skill and ability to get great performances from his leading actors - the truth is he probably was. Not quite a Wilder possibly - but pretty damn good.
I also *love*
Victor/Victoria (as well as Panther, Tiffanys and Operation Petticoat). I didn't know that The Days of Wine and Roses was him. A pretty good record all round, isn't it?
Not his best, but...
... can I mention "The Party" and "The Great Race", both of which I have very happy memories of.
When Tony Curtis passed away earlier this year, I mentioned here that "The Great Race" was one of the first films I ever saw at the cinema, so thanks to Blake Edwards for writing & directing it.
And "The Party" might lose steam towards the end, but much of it is hysterical, and I very specifically remember my parents & I crying with laughter at one TV showing when I was a child...
Blake Edwards clearly knew the funny, and I can feel a Pink Panther double-bill coming up this weekend - RIP.
A Shot in the Dark
has to be one of the funniest films ever made. For that and many other films from the great man we should be truly grateful.
R.I.P Blake.