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"R. I. P. Greta Thyssen"
Love you, too
There's a death notice in today's NY Times for the star of this iconic pie scene. Thanks for the wanks, Greta!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZhgNaw8pis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZhgNaw8pis
Either of these scenes could very well have been the catalyst for my pie fetish when they burned into my brain in childhood. God damn, they hold up. Her reactions are textbook perfect. What a glamorous lady.
Sad... 
oh god yes the most perfect pie hit & cake hit in wamtory from Miss Denmark.
R.I.P. Greta Thyssen
From 2010....
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2010/06/three_stooges_final_leading_la.html
Q: A DVD set is out containing the three shorts you filmed with the Three Stooges. In "Pies and Guys," you received a pie in the face, which some would deem an honor. How did you respond?
A: Actually, I totally have forgotten it, so I can't tell you what it felt like. I really have forgotten it. I probably didn't like it at all, I would think.
And... NO shame to Ms Thyssen,
but good thing (for us) the US government didn't get its way
and deport her back to Denmark. She'd have never met The Stooges
and the universe timeline would have been irrevocably broken.
http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/441/Greta+Thyssen/index.html
"is charged with two violations of her visitor's permit and faces deportation. First, she failed to leave the States when her permit expired in March 1953. Second, she was working in motion pictures and television although she was officially in the States only as a visitor. She has 10 days to appeal the order to the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington."
oh god yes the most perfect pie hit & cake hit in wamtory from Miss Denmark.
R.I.P. Greta Thyssen
From 2010....
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2010/06/three_stooges_final_leading_la.html
Q: A DVD set is out containing the three shorts you filmed with the Three Stooges. In "Pies and Guys," you received a pie in the face, which some would deem an honor. How did you respond?
A: Actually, I totally have forgotten it, so I can't tell you what it felt like. I really have forgotten it. I probably didn't like it at all, I would think.
And... NO shame to Ms Thyssen,
but good thing (for us) the US government didn't get its way
and deport her back to Denmark. She'd have never met The Stooges
and the universe timeline would have been irrevocably broken.
http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/441/Greta+Thyssen/index.html
"is charged with two violations of her visitor's permit and faces deportation. First, she failed to leave the States when her permit expired in March 1953. Second, she was working in motion pictures and television although she was officially in the States only as a visitor. She has 10 days to appeal the order to the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington."
When did it become tradition to admit to wanking to the departed?
Because I always had a thing for Barbara Stanwyck...
Because I always had a thing for Barbara Stanwyck...
Oh Janet! You look so funny!!!
HappyCamper said: When did it become tradition to admit to wanking to the departed?
Martin Scorsese fans.
To my utter surprise & delight, she received and was honored with a headline banner obituary in the IMDB.com this morning
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greta-thyssen-dead-marilyn-monroe-double-three-stooges-star-was-90-1073424
Actress Greta Thyssen, Blonde Bombshell of the 1950s and '60s, Dies at 90
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni61862268?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=2540377602&pf_rd_r=1AT0N618XMQ524G1C8WY&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_nw_tp1
What's ANNOYING is that her IMDB.com listing lists her birthdate as
1933 March 30, dying on 2018 January 6 at age 84
yet her daughter provided 90 as her age, implying she was born some time
in 1927 January 7 through 1928 January 6.
Seriously - were humans not keeping good birth records back in the 1930s in Denmark?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greta-thyssen-dead-marilyn-monroe-double-three-stooges-star-was-90-1073424
Actress Greta Thyssen, Blonde Bombshell of the 1950s and '60s, Dies at 90
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni61862268?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=2540377602&pf_rd_r=1AT0N618XMQ524G1C8WY&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_nw_tp1
What's ANNOYING is that her IMDB.com listing lists her birthdate as
1933 March 30, dying on 2018 January 6 at age 84
yet her daughter provided 90 as her age, implying she was born some time
in 1927 January 7 through 1928 January 6.
Seriously - were humans not keeping good birth records back in the 1930s in Denmark?
No, she just took six years off her age when she was an ingenue, like a lot of starlets in those days. Age corrections like that are still common in obituaries (or before ... until recently Cicely Tyson's birthdate was given as 1933, but a NY Times profile a few years ago casually revealed that it's actually 1924).
Regis said: No, she just took six years off her age when she was an ingenue, like a lot of starlets in those days. Age corrections like that are still common in obituaries (or before ... until recently Cicely Tyson's birthdate was given as 1933, but a NY Times profile a few years ago casually revealed that it's actually 1924).
Thank you, Regis. Seriously, I did NOT know that actresses did that,
not even back in the 1930s. But, they did that just to get jobs, right?
But, I see no reason to keep up the lie, especially after death:
of course unless Ms Thyssen asked it be that way after her death.
But, obviously, her daughter revealed the true age to the NY Times.
I would think that the IMDB would want to update their information
to the correct year of birth.
On a related matter: I have a longtime math colleague/advisor whom I would LIKE to find out his true age, his birthdate in fact, before he grows too old and kicks the bucket.
But, I don't know ANY polite way of asking him or someone else for the info.
And, I don't know ANY way of looking it up.
e.g. I did not know the true exact age nor birthdate of my PhD advisor until after he died in 2014 and his relatives (cousins) informed me after I attended his funeral.
Numerous actresses have lied about their age. An example being Charo....whose immigration documents show she was born in 1941, then years later she claimed to be born in 1947, then later she claimed she was born in 1949 and in recent years has always claimed she was born in 1951. When fans questioned the 1951 claim they questioned...hmmm in that case she must have only been 15 years old when she married Xavier Cugat in 1966.....which would be illegal.....but immigration documents still prove her real birth year as being 1941....but today she still claims she was born in 1951.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charo
Do unto others, then run
A couple of observations nobody has mentioned:
Greta wears the same dress and has the same up-do for both of these scenes. Maybe they shot these scenes on the same day and were able to clean up the dress? Or perhaps they had two copies of the dress. The only differences I can see her earrings are different and she has a sash around her waist over the dress in "pies and guys."
Greta shows her range as a pie/cake recipient. She pulls off the innocent victim, {"Pies") and the villianess getting what she deserves (Quiz) with equal aplomb.
Like others in this thread, I would say these scenes cemented my pie fetish whn I first saw them as a kid. In Pies and Guys they have a great build-up where Greta is standing next to Joe Besser when he gets pied twice and my heart was racing the first time I saw this, anticipating what is to come. The payoff, as others have stated, remains the gold standard for a mainstream pie.
On the other hand, the cake scene caught me by surprise when I first saw it as a kid. I wasn't expecting that at all, and Moe really nails her good!
those two scenes are the only two moments in the entire Joe Besser era, IMO. He was a terrible follow-up to iconic Curly and underrated Shemp. I find it interesting she appeared in just three films and is creamed nicely in two of them . Christine McIntyre was probably in a dozen or more Stooge shorts and NEVER took a pie or mess.
Also both of those hits produced excelent coverage for a stooges film. There is a poor quality "Ultimate Stooge Pie fight" video on Youtube which features edits together of virtually every messy scene involving females. With a couple exceptions, the pies or other mess rarely hit the bull's eye. Best example of a horrible missed opportunity is "Spooks" when a guy in a gorilla suit pies Moe and the gorgeous Norma Randall. Unfortunately the pie grazes Norma's chin and gets only a tiny bit on her face. This certainly was not the case in these scenes.
RIP Greta.
Greta wears the same dress and has the same up-do for both of these scenes. Maybe they shot these scenes on the same day and were able to clean up the dress? Or perhaps they had two copies of the dress. The only differences I can see her earrings are different and she has a sash around her waist over the dress in "pies and guys."
Greta shows her range as a pie/cake recipient. She pulls off the innocent victim, {"Pies") and the villianess getting what she deserves (Quiz) with equal aplomb.
Like others in this thread, I would say these scenes cemented my pie fetish whn I first saw them as a kid. In Pies and Guys they have a great build-up where Greta is standing next to Joe Besser when he gets pied twice and my heart was racing the first time I saw this, anticipating what is to come. The payoff, as others have stated, remains the gold standard for a mainstream pie.
On the other hand, the cake scene caught me by surprise when I first saw it as a kid. I wasn't expecting that at all, and Moe really nails her good!
those two scenes are the only two moments in the entire Joe Besser era, IMO. He was a terrible follow-up to iconic Curly and underrated Shemp. I find it interesting she appeared in just three films and is creamed nicely in two of them . Christine McIntyre was probably in a dozen or more Stooge shorts and NEVER took a pie or mess.
Also both of those hits produced excelent coverage for a stooges film. There is a poor quality "Ultimate Stooge Pie fight" video on Youtube which features edits together of virtually every messy scene involving females. With a couple exceptions, the pies or other mess rarely hit the bull's eye. Best example of a horrible missed opportunity is "Spooks" when a guy in a gorilla suit pies Moe and the gorgeous Norma Randall. Unfortunately the pie grazes Norma's chin and gets only a tiny bit on her face. This certainly was not the case in these scenes.
RIP Greta.
fredsout said: A couple of observations nobody has mentioned:
Greta wears the same dress and has the same up-do for both of these scenes. Maybe they shot these scenes on the same day and were able to clean up the dress? Or perhaps they had two copies of the dress. The only differences I can see her earrings are different and she has a sash around her waist over the dress in "pies and guys."
Greta shows her range as a pie/cake recipient. She pulls off the innocent victim, {"Pies") and the villianess getting what she deserves (Quiz) with equal aplomb.
Like others in this thread, I would say these scenes cemented my pie fetish whn I first saw them as a kid. In Pies and Guys they have a great build-up where Greta is standing next to Joe Besser when he gets pied twice and my heart was racing the first time I saw this, anticipating what is to come. The payoff, as others have stated, remains the gold standard for a mainstream pie.
On the other hand, the cake scene caught me by surprise when I first saw it as a kid. I wasn't expecting that at all, and Moe really nails her good!
those two scenes are the only two moments in the entire Joe Besser era, IMO. He was a terrible follow-up to iconic Curly and underrated Shemp. I find it interesting she appeared in just three films and is creamed nicely in two of them . Christine McIntyre was probably in a dozen or more Stooge shorts and NEVER took a pie or mess.
Also both of those hits produced excelent coverage for a stooges film. There is a poor quality "Ultimate Stooge Pie fight" video on Youtube which features edits together of virtually every messy scene involving females. With a couple exceptions, the pies or other mess rarely hit the bull's eye. Best example of a horrible missed opportunity is "Spooks" when a guy in a gorilla suit pies Moe and the gorgeous Norma Randall. Unfortunately the pie grazes Norma's chin and gets only a tiny bit on her face. This certainly was not the case in these scenes.
RIP Greta.
Greta wears the same dress and has the same up-do for both of these scenes. Maybe they shot these scenes on the same day and were able to clean up the dress? Or perhaps they had two copies of the dress. The only differences I can see her earrings are different and she has a sash around her waist over the dress in "pies and guys."
Greta shows her range as a pie/cake recipient. She pulls off the innocent victim, {"Pies") and the villianess getting what she deserves (Quiz) with equal aplomb.
Like others in this thread, I would say these scenes cemented my pie fetish whn I first saw them as a kid. In Pies and Guys they have a great build-up where Greta is standing next to Joe Besser when he gets pied twice and my heart was racing the first time I saw this, anticipating what is to come. The payoff, as others have stated, remains the gold standard for a mainstream pie.
On the other hand, the cake scene caught me by surprise when I first saw it as a kid. I wasn't expecting that at all, and Moe really nails her good!
those two scenes are the only two moments in the entire Joe Besser era, IMO. He was a terrible follow-up to iconic Curly and underrated Shemp. I find it interesting she appeared in just three films and is creamed nicely in two of them . Christine McIntyre was probably in a dozen or more Stooge shorts and NEVER took a pie or mess.
Also both of those hits produced excelent coverage for a stooges film. There is a poor quality "Ultimate Stooge Pie fight" video on Youtube which features edits together of virtually every messy scene involving females. With a couple exceptions, the pies or other mess rarely hit the bull's eye. Best example of a horrible missed opportunity is "Spooks" when a guy in a gorilla suit pies Moe and the gorgeous Norma Randall. Unfortunately the pie grazes Norma's chin and gets only a tiny bit on her face. This certainly was not the case in these scenes.
RIP Greta.
If I had one 'do over' of any WaM scene of all time it would be that Spooks pie on Norma Randall. She was my ideal victim; totally innocent and pretty. I suspect the pie throw was errant because Moe didn't throw it, as he was pied simultaneously.
The Greta Thyssen shorts were actually filmed about 4 days apart according to ThreeStooges.net, Quiz Whiz being first on May 2nd and 3rd, followed by Pies and Guys(they must have thought about a nano-second naming these shorts) May 6th and 7th.
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