Comments on: Movie Legends Revealed #24

By: Movie Legends History

Movie Legends History — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:20:43 +0000

[...] #23 - Jamie Foxx took the name “Jamie” because it sounded like a woman’s name. [...]

By: mary warner

mary warner — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:14:45 +0000

Despite what Matt Bird said, Stephen Colbert always pronounced the ‘T’ until he got into show business and everybody else kept pronouncing his name like Claudette’s. This is according to a Rolling Stone article about him from a couple of years ago.

By: Random

Random — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:01:56 +0000

And her name is Claudette… Col-bear made more sense in that context to me, and this is the first time i heard about her (did see a gazillion parodies of that scene though, now i know where it’s from).

By: Bouncing Boy

Bouncing Boy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:08:09 +0000

Actually Young Frankenstein is based on Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein AND Son of Frankenstein. There’s several scenes from the original Frankenstein parodied (getting the brain, the scene with the little girl, the actual giving life scene, etc), a few scenes and characters taken from Bride of Frankenstein (most notably the Blind Hermit) and several bits taken from Son of Frankenstein (Inspector Klemp is directly lifted from Inspector Krogh, Fredrick Frankenstein greatly resembles Wolf Frankenstein, etc). Marty Feldman’s Igor character, while being named closer to Ygor is closer in role to Fritz (and a little bit the hunchback character in House of Frankenstein)

By: Matt Bird

Matt Bird — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:12:39 +0000

Neither Claudette nor Stephen pronounce the “t”. Stephen calling himself
“Col-bert” when he lapses out of character is just a joke.

I think the main reason that people mis-remember Fritz as Ygor is that people assume that “Young Frankenstein” is a parody of “Frankenstein”, but it’s actually based, almost scene-for-scene, on “Son of Frankenstein”, the movie that introduced Ygor. (There are, in fact, a lot of very specific jokes in YF that you can’t get unless you’ve seen SoF) That’s why YF has Ygor, not Fritz. Most of our generation have only seen YF, and assume that the name is taken from the original.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:14:21 +0000

Stephen’s name is pronounced with a pronounced T when he’s out of character.

Claudette’s name is not.

By: mary warner

mary warner — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:27:33 +0000

I’ve always heard her called ‘Col-bear’.

When Ygor’s brain was transplanted into the monster, he went blind because of a blood-type miss-match. Because of this, I’ve been told that Lugosi played the monster as blind in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, and that is why he staggers around with his hands out in front. But they left out all references to blindness in the script, so if you’re not aware of it it’s never clear why he moves that way. But ever since, a lot of people have imitated the monster by stumbling around with their arms outstretched.

I thought it was Shawn Wayans who was the DJ on Living Color for the first few seasons, and that he switched to being a cast member about the same time Jamie Foxx joined the cast.

By: The Mutt

The Mutt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:12:55 +0000

I have watched at least 100 documentaries about Hollywood history and have never once heard Claudette’s name pronounced Col-Bert.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:26:46 +0000

Col-BERT pronouncing the “T”. Stephen Colbert has made me think of the T as silent, even though it is much more often pronounced.

By: Rusty Priske

Rusty Priske — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:09:12 +0000

“On a separate note, I caught myself reading ‘Claudette Colbert’ as ‘Claudette ColBEAR’ each time the name came up. Am I alone in this?”

How else would you pronounce it?