Chris Horak requests: > NEED HELP! > > > My museum is doing a multi-media exhibition on tobacco smoking in the media. > I am looking for clips that thematize tobacco smoking in movies, tv, > commercials, industrials, educationals, etc, preferably pd. There's a compilation documentary called SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE, available at: http://www.mpihomevideo.com/smokthatcig.html If you're looking for individual scenes, here are some suggestions besides one mentioned already: There are the celebrities who are identified with and/or endorsed cigarettes and subsequently died of lung cancer, including John Wayne, Bogart and Edward R. Murrow. There's an early silent film with the intriguing title of "The Nicotine Fairy" but I do not know if it's available. You can find online cigarette cards featuring Anna May Wong at The Silents Majority: http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/FeaturedStar/star49d.htm A number of films feature cigarette smoking after sex (or its implication): Mel Brooks spoofs this kind of scene in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, Woody Allen does it with Gene Wilder and the sheep in EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX. A Donald Duck cartoon, "Donald's Better Self" has a youngish duck being courted by a "bad" Donald to skip school, smoke, etc., while an angelic duck tries to persuade him not to. (Smoking turns him green, etc.) There are other films that also depict bad reactions to smoking when young--Check out the Our Gang/Little Rascals series, among others. I seem to recall a similar scene in a Mickey Rooney film. The Snapper Kid's presence at a "blind pig" is revealed by a puff of smoke in Griffith's MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY. There are a number of war films where a soldier shares a last cigarette with a dying buddy, including THE BIG PARADE. Cigarettes are tokens of camaderie and/or monetary exchange in other war and prison films. In retrospect, there's a rather hilarious sequence in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL where doctors who have examined the alien Michael Rennie are all madly puffing away on cigarettes. Roy Scheider chain-smokes (along with other self-destructive behaviors) throughout Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical ALL THAT JAZZ. The decline and fall of Professor Rath in THE BLUE ANGEL is accentuated by his drooping cigarette while in clown makeup. Bette Davis puffs away in ALL ABOUT EVE and many others. Also, Joan Crawford in MILDRED PIERCE, etc. In ROBERTA (which features Astaire and Rogers before they headlined their own films), Irene Dunne wallops the hell out of Jerome Kern's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." Astaire uses a cigarette to ignite firecrackers in a dance in HOLIDAY INN. In THE FEARMAKERS, a bad but interesting anti-Commie movie that ran recently on Turner Classics Movies channel, smoking has interesting significations: Dana Andrews' presence in a room is betrayed by a burning cigarette; labor leaders all chew on big cigars. As I recall, the gang boss in Fritz Lang's M is always chewing on cigar. Edward G. Robinson's gangsters, especially in LITTLE CAESAR, are marked by those iconic cigars. On the other hand, there's Groucho Marx! Raymond the butler (Paul Stewart) in CITIZEN KANE. Takashi Shimura in Kurosawa's IKIRU. Tough women smoking in Hitchcock's films: Florence Bates in REBECCA, Leopoldine Konstantin in NOTORIOUS, Jessie Royce Landis in IT TAKES A THIEF. Also, see the cigarette lighter in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (and Robert Walker popping a kid's balloon with his cigarette). Bad women smoking in many films, especially *films noirs*: Gloria Grahame, Stanwyck in DOUBLE INDEMNITY, Virginia Mayo in WHITE HEAT, etc. Gillian Armstrong's Lilly Bart begins to deviate from social norms by smoking in THE HOUSE OF MIRTH. More male bonding between Robinson and Fred MacMurray in DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Catherine (Jean Moreau) joyously puffs smoke while horsing around with JULES AND JIM. You might want to look at documentaries or fictional portrayals of FDR with that cigarette holder tilted upward (including in PEARL HARBOR, I believe). There is a video available of some of Stan Freberg's commercials, including the one he did for Jeno's Pizza Rolls that is a take-off on the Lark Cigarettes ad campaign that used the tune of the "William Tell Overture" (and features Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels as the Lone Ranger and Tonto). (You have to see it to understand.) You might give a listen to k.d. lang's album of smoke-related songs DRAG. And, of course, Bill Plympton's hilarious and typically perverse cautionary cartoon, 25 WAYS TO QUIT SMOKING. Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]