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"Be a Clown"
By Howard Wyman

I believe the movie that Ingmar Krause is referring to is "Singing in the
Rain".  There is a production number in which Donald O'Connor sings "Be a
Clown", and among other things, he dances with a mop, a dummy, and at the
end of the number he runs up one side wall and does a back flip onto his
feet, then up the back wall with the same flip, but on the other side
wall he crashes through the wall.

The number takes place on a movie set with prop men carrying boards
through (which become part of the number).  It was one of the best of
the MGM musicals of the 1950's.

Howard Wyman


(Message sent Sat 12 Jul 1997, 02:13:47 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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