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Zenobia

  • 1939
  • Approved
  • 1h 13min
PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
6,0/10
705
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Billie Burke, Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Alice Brady, James Ellison, and Jean Parker in Zenobia (1939)
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Añade un argumento en tu idiomaA visiting circus man calls on a Southern country doctor to cure his sick elephant; afterwards, the grateful beast becomes so attached to the doctor that it starts to follow him everywhere.A visiting circus man calls on a Southern country doctor to cure his sick elephant; afterwards, the grateful beast becomes so attached to the doctor that it starts to follow him everywhere.A visiting circus man calls on a Southern country doctor to cure his sick elephant; afterwards, the grateful beast becomes so attached to the doctor that it starts to follow him everywhere.

  • Dirección
    • Gordon Douglas
  • Guión
    • Corey Ford
    • Walter DeLeon
    • Arnold Belgard
  • Reparto principal
    • Oliver Hardy
    • Harry Langdon
    • Billie Burke
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  • PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
    6,0/10
    705
    TU PUNTUACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Gordon Douglas
    • Guión
      • Corey Ford
      • Walter DeLeon
      • Arnold Belgard
    • Reparto principal
      • Oliver Hardy
      • Harry Langdon
      • Billie Burke
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    Oliver Hardy
    Oliver Hardy
    • Doc Tibbett
    Harry Langdon
    Harry Langdon
    • Professor McCrackle
    Billie Burke
    Billie Burke
    • Mrs. Tibbett
    Alice Brady
    Alice Brady
    • Mrs. Carter
    James Ellison
    James Ellison
    • Jeff Carter
    Jean Parker
    Jean Parker
    • Mary Tibbett
    June Lang
    June Lang
    • Virginia
    Olin Howland
    Olin Howland
    • Attorney Culpepper
    J. Farrell MacDonald
    J. Farrell MacDonald
    • Judge
    Stepin Fetchit
    Stepin Fetchit
    • Zero
    • (as Step'n Fetchit)
    Hattie McDaniel
    Hattie McDaniel
    • Dehlia
    • (as Hattie McDaniels)
    Philip Hurlic
    Philip Hurlic
    • Zeke
    • (as Phillip Hurlic)
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    • Mr. Dover
    Clem Bevans
    Clem Bevans
    • Sheriff
    Tommy Mack
    Tommy Mack
    • Butcher
    Robert Dudley
    Robert Dudley
    • Court Clerk
    Hall Johnson Choir
    • Church Choir
    • (as The Hall Johnson Choir)
    Zenobia
    • Miss Zenobia
    • Dirección
      • Gordon Douglas
    • Guión
      • Corey Ford
      • Walter DeLeon
      • Arnold Belgard
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    • Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro

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    5martinnd

    Oliver Hardy solo movie

    I have read the post before mine about this movie. Much I do agree with, but I wish to comment a bit more in defense of this movie. At the time, Hal Roach had a contract dispute with Stan. In short, Stan was offered more money then Oliver, and Stan said either pay us equal, or you don't have us anymore. That loyalty is amazing in any era. This movie was suppose to be for the both of them, but had to be re-written for just Oliver. Yes, the movie's writing suffers in many places, as it gets to be too silly, and even racist. However, the actual acting of Oliver, and Billie are truly wonderful, even if their lines were not. I view this movie as a rare treat, a historical footnote in the years of Laurel and Hardy. No, not a classic, nor anywhere near one, but entertaining? Yes. One can not compare this with any Laurel and Hardy movie. That would be unfair. They never knew if they would work together ever again at this point. True, at times I thought the concept of this movie was childish, but in an innocent entertaining way. As if to say we know it is silly, but it is just a silly movie. So no huge amount of thumbs up for this movie, but a nice treat for hardcore Laurel and Hardy fans. I will say though, thank God they got back together again! Ha! Two movies like this would have been a bit much to take Ha!
    Michael_Elliott

    Nice Laughs

    Zenobia (1939)

    ** 1/2 (out of 4)

    Oliver Hardy plays a country doctor's whose life gets turned upside down when his daughter is about to marry into a rich family that doesn't want her. To make matters worse, the doctor is asked by a circus man (Harry Langdon) to look at his sick elephant. The doctor cures the creature but then the elephant refuses to leave his side. This was Hardy's first and only starring role without Stan Laurel but the screenplay really seems like it was originally meant for the two. Langdon, a silent screen star, fills in for Laurel and one can't help but think the duo could have made this film together but didn't for whatever reasons. The film takes place during the Old South and features a lot more than just laughs as the doctor always talks about he Declaration of Independence and how important that is to him. The battles between rich and poor as well as black and white are dealt with in a pretty honest manor considering the type of film this is. There's one sequence where a black boy asks Hardy if he'll ever be white so that he will be able to do more things. The response Hardy gives him makes for some good drama but it's also interesting in what's said. I was surprised at how honest they looked at the racial tensions but some of them are nearly thrown to the side with Step'n Fetchit playing his normal slow slave character. He's certainly very good at what he does but the performance does go against some of the speeches in the film. Hardy proves that he could carry a movie on his own and delivers many laughs including a very funny sequence where he tells Langdon that he isn't an elephant. Langdon's comeback is great and he also manages to do his part quite well and add plenty of laughs. I didn't care too much for any of the other supporting performances as I found them very annoying due to how they were written in the screenplay. This film certainly isn't a masterpiece or even a classic but it makes for a mildly entertaining 70-minutes.
    7Derbyhat

    Unique one time partnership

    For those looking for the magic of Laurel and Hardy, "Zenobia" offers an alternative that occurred because of Laurel's contract negotiations. Made the same year as "Gone With The Wind", Zenobia takes place in a time before the Civil War, where a small Southern plantation town at peace, is disrupted when the excitable traveling promoter (Harry Langdon), seeks aid for his ailing partner. A beloved country doctor (Oliver Hardy) is surprised and resists, but is coerced into treating a fully grown elephant for a terrible condition. Proving that a good deed never goes unpunished for Hardy, the patient, attempting to say 'thanks', relentlessly follows the good doctor and there is no place to hide, not even a formal social gathering. With the town in an uproar and his wife (Billie Burke) embarrassed at the spectacle, Dr Tibbetts is the focus of laughter, ridicule and a lawsuit. Twelve year old Philip Hurlic turns in a memorable performance that needs to be seen in the context of today.

    Langdon is little known by most and seems very much like Buster Keaton, but just a bit more shy. Although, Langdon is not as appreciated for his works as Stan and Ollie, his touching performance in "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!" when he meets Joan Crawford, the girl of his dreams, face to face for the first time is something to behold. If you can look past Laurel's absence in this rare partnership, Zenobia will have you laughing at a moment in time when fate put two funny men and an elephant on a collision course. On such paths they prove there is just no dignified way to get around a loving elephant.
    7tavm

    Zenobia is a mostly entertaining Oliver Hardy vehicle with Harry Langdon in fine support

    Since this is Black History Month and I'm reviewing African-Americans on film in mostly chronological order, let's start my review of Zenobia by mentioning three of the players: Stepin Fetchit, Hattie McDaniel, and Philip Hurlic. Stepin (spelled Step'n in the credits) is Zero-the butler. He's quite funny with his talking under his breath about his thoughts every time he gets ordered. Having seen quite a few of his performances now, I have tolerated his presence a bit more because of some of the subtle brightness he brings to his parts. Hattie (whose last name has an 's' added in the credits) brings the same commanding presence that I last saw in Show Boat, which I just watched this morning. And Philip, the kid here that I just saw in The Green Pastures, as Zeke proves to be the most intelligent one in the movie when he recites The Declaration of Independence with the reward being a quarter from Oliver Hardy's character of Dr. Tibbett. They all were fine performances here despite some of the stereotypes they're forced to play. Now, with Hardy briefly split from Stan Laurel (because of the latter's dispute with Hal Roach), he's the carrier of this movie and he does just fine especially in his scenes with Harry Langdon and an elephant, Zenobia, that Langdon-as Professor McCrackle-owns. Those scenes are the most "Laurel and Hardy"-like in the film. Also in fine form were Billie Burke as Hardy's wife, Bessie Tibbett, Olin Howard as Attorney Culpepper, and J. Farrell McDonald, another supporting player from my favorite movie-It's a Wonderful Life (he played the old man whose tree was hit by George Bailey's car), as the Judge. One other note: Jean Parker who plays Hardy's daughter Mary Tibbett here, would later in the year play his potential fiancée in The Flying Deuces which marked Laurel and Hardy's re-teaming. So on that note, I highly recommend Zenobia. Oh, and having just seen the Hall Johnson Choir in The Green Pastures, it's nice hearing them here too.
    5Bunuel1976

    ZENOBIA (Gordon Douglas, 1939) **

    I had always been interested in watching this curiosity (Oliver Hardy without Stan Laurel!) - however, it finally came about by way of a colorized and atrociously-dubbed version on Italian TV! I don't know if it was intended as such but, rather than Harry Langdon, the character that was made to fill Stan's shoes, as it were (complete with the Italian voice typically associated with him), was Billie Burke - playing Hardy's wife - but she came off as such an irritating dim-wit that I wanted to strangle her!! To make matters worse, with the story taking place in the Old South, we're treated to the unenviable comic relief of Stepin Fetchit (though his antics proved reasonably tolerable, under the circumstances).

    Hardy's character, then, isn't the pompous, bumbling and flustered one we'd come to love! Langdon, as the owner of a traveling medicine-show and a pachyderm, is okay (especially during his scenes in court - having learned his deposition by heart, every time he's asked to speak he starts from the very top!); this was only his second Talkie that I've watched - the first occurred only recently with HALLELUJAH, I'M A BUM (1933). Jean Parker and James Ellison provide bland romantic interest and the supporting cast also features Oscar winners Alice Brady and Hattie MacDaniel, but their stereotypical characters - snooty matriarch and black cook, respectively - add very little of substance to the proceedings!

    In the end, while the elephant's persistent and awkward devotion to doctor Hardy for having cured her (even disrupting a society party and following him into the court-room!) provides some undeniably charming moments, I think I'd still prefer Laurel & Hardy's maligned vehicles of the 1940s over it...

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      This film was originally developed as a Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy vehicle, but was re-scripted after Stan Laurel, whose contract with Hal Roach had run out, declined to re-sign with the producer. Hardy's contract was still in force, and the team believed that if they waited until it expired, they could re-sign as a team and be in a stronger bargaining position. Ultimately that is what happened.
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      Dr. Tibbett: Oh, Zeke, where are you?

      Zeke: Here I is.

      Dr. Tibbett: You get the boots shined?

      Zeke: Ya sah

      Dr. Tibbett: Oh, that's fine. Let's put 'em on.

      Zeke: Dr. Tibbett, will I ever turn white?

      Dr. Tibbett: Oh, I'm afraid not, Zeke. Why?

      Zeke: Well, I'm never gonna be nothin' else 'cept just what I am, only bigger?

      Dr. Tibbett: Well, what's wrong with being just what you are?

      Zeke: Just that all the other little boys around, they can go to parties, like the party tonight. Cause they're white. And I can't, cause I'm not.

      Dr. Tibbett: Listen, Zeke, you don't go to white folks parties. I don't go to colored folks parties. But, that makes no real difference. You understand?

      Zeke: No sah.

      Dr. Tibbett: Well, Zeke, its like this, you know that medicine kit down in my office?

      Zeke: Ya sah.

      Dr. Tibbett: Well, there's black pills in it and there's white pills in it. And they're both good kinds of pills. Some people couldn't do without one kind and some couldn't do without the other. You understand?

      Zeke: No sah.

      Dr. Tibbett: Well, I'll put it another way then. You know next to that medicine kit, what hangs in that big frame over the desk?

      [Referring to a copy of the Declaration of Independence]

      Zeke: Ya sah.

      Dr. Tibbett: Well, that just isn't about countries. That's about people, all kinds. Like black pills, white pills, red, yellow, all colors. What that tells us is, that ALL people can find life, liberty and happiness. You understand now?

      Zeke: No sah, not exactly.

      Dr. Tibbett: Come here Zeke. Did you ever own a quarter?

      Zeke: No sah.

      Dr. Tibbett: Well, you go down in that office and learn a little bit of that everyday and when you get it all learned by heart, I'm going to give you this quarter. Do you understand that?

      Zeke: Yes sir!

    • Versiones alternativas
      Colorized version is cut to 65 minutes.
    • Conexiones
      Referenced in De ratones y hombres (1939)
    • Banda sonora
      I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls
      (1843) (uncredited)

      From the operetta "The Bohemian Girl"

      Music by Michael William Balfe

      Lyrics by Alfred Bunn

      Sung by Oliver Hardy and Billie Burke with Burke on piano

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      • 12 de julio de 1945 (España)
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      • Estados Unidos
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    • Localizaciones del rodaje
      • Hal Roach Studios - 8822 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
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