BLONDE VENUS or GORILLA MY DREAMS
A couple of questions popped into my head while watching this scene from BLONDE VENUS recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVrH1OfVjw Is that a Charles Gemora suit? If so, was he playing the...
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I don't think Van Horn was working as early as 1932; I don't think I've seen his gorilla suit in any movie earlier than the early '40s. From the Bob Burns-as-told-to-Tom Weaver article on Emil Van...
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TomWeaver999 wrote: "Emil Van Horn later played the giant ape in Warner Brothers' KING KONG, produced by Tod Browning......" Erm,... it's almost as though you designed some of the publicity for that...
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Sorry to find out Van Horn had such a sad career and life. I tend to think of him as one of the regular 'Gorilla Suit' guys and was surprised when I checked IMDb he had so few credits - only eight...
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That's a weird looking gorilla. What's with the There's Something about Mary hairstyle.
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<< What's with the There's Something about Mary hairstyle. << If I remember the story, it's actually the Gemora gorilla suit with someone else in it (actually, I guess there might possibly...
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That BLONDE VENUS claim is so weird. I know there's a lot more behind-the-scenes stuff floating around now, but he made that claim when the movie was barely seven years old. That would be sort of...
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zogstar67 wrote: Maybe it's a combination of a certain level of b.s. hype being considered acceptable back then and Van Horne thinking that there was no way Gemora or anyone who knew better would be...
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Emil the Ape Man by Bob Burns as Told to Tom Weaver A Mystery Man Among Ape Men: Horror Movie and Serial "Gorilla" Emil Van Horn Remembered The history of Hollywood Gorilla Guys includes a number of...
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TomWeaver999 wrote: Emil the Ape Man by Bob Burns as Told to Tom Weaver Van Horn had a three-week run at Dallas' Colony Club in 1950; again he was billed as Ingagi while his partner Zorine (possibly...
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TomWeaver999 wrote: From the Bob Burns Archives: Emil on Emil For a girlie magazine of (possibly) mid-1960s vintage, Emil Van Horn wrote this short, humorous article about his current stint,...
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doctor kiss wrote: In a [1939] magazine article, Van Horn claimed to have been doing his 'beauty and the beast' stage routine for three years already... Having had a quick look through some reviews of...
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So Van Horn spent much of his career chasing naked ladies around on stage. Nice work if you can get it, I suppose. Have any of you read Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood? There's a gorilla suit character...
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Were there really naked people running around on stages in Mansfield, OH and Terre Haute, IN in the 30s and 40s? With big blatant newspaper ads trumpeting the fact? Thanks for the marvelous research,...
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It appears as though Emil was trying to pad out his resume by taking credit for some of Charlie Gemoras work. We have to keep in mind that at that time there was no redily available method for...
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zogstar67 wrote: Were there really naked people running around on stages in Mansfield, OH and Terre Haute, IN in the 30s and 40s? With big blatant newspaper ads trumpeting the fact? I guess even if...
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Friend of Daniel wrote: zogstar67 wrote: Were there really naked people running around on stages in Mansfield, OH and Terre Haute, IN in the 30s and 40s? With big blatant newspaper ads trumpeting the...
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Thanks for the clarification. That would look great on a business card: Chris Herzog Dance Hall Inspector
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Hi, There is a question on ICE CAPADES REVUE. I found a copy of this film under it´s re-release title RYTHM HITS THE ICE, but I couldn´t find Emil Van Horn in it. Was he cut out? Does anyone has...
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Ingojira wrote: There is a question on ICE CAPADES REVUE. I found a copy of this film under it´s re-release title RYTHM HITS THE ICE, but I couldn´t find Emil Van Horn in it. Was he cut out? I've...
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