[Dixielandjazz] Ealing Comedies of the 1950s

rahberry at comcast.net rahberry at comcast.net
Sat Jul 4 15:31:30 PDT 2009


Here's the clip in Polish. Very funny. 
-- Rae Ann 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3JLZQk6RWY 

http://www.sfraeann.com 
http://www.youtube.com/sfraeann 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marek Boym" <marekboym at gmail.com> 
To: rahberry at comcast.net 
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Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2009 3:08:08 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Ealing Comedies of the 1950s 

> 
> Re jazz on film. 
> 
> I picked up a DVD at a market of Mell Brooks called To be or not to be` 
> Pretty funny in bits, including the invasion of Poland, but it starts with 
> Brooks and Ann Bancroft performing Sweet Georgia Brown, IN POLISH. 


You must be joking! Polish is an impossible language, as all of us 
Polish speakers know! Many of the Polish sounds are not pronouncable 
for foreigners; actually, most foreigners don't even distinguish 
between them (that's OK - I could not distinguish between the various 
"accents" in French). 

Cheers 


with a 
> sort of jazzy band supporting. Well worth a listen just for its uniqueness. 
> Another bit which made me laugh was Brooks doing `To be... and then pausing 
> for dramatic effect, whereupon the prompter supplies..or not to be. and 
> Brooks stamps on his fingers. 
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Pat. 
> 
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