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Subject: Re: Update for vintage wetlook/JJ fans - keeping the actress wet

Date: Tue 02/06/09 23:53:22 GMT

Name: Graham (Styx)

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"It's a shame that JJ is not around to maintain his site, cos I have tons of new pics and infos I could send him."
Several of us have tried to contact JJ without success in the past 18 months, but I host the Vintage sites and I'm happy to add some updates.

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Update for vintage wetlook/JJ fans - keeping the actress wet

By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Tue 02/06/09 15:39:32 GMT

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FYI, recently we were discussing the need for constantly wetting the actress down in between takes for a scene, cos wetlook can only be seen for 1-2 minutes and then the actress no longer looks wet any more.Film makers who understand this will make sure they keep wetting the actress down again before each take.

I mentioned a couple of examples of this...i.e. John Ford constantly throwing buckets of water over Maureen O'Hara's dress during the making of "The Wings of Eagles" in 1957. Ford was a sadistic director who enjoyed putting the actors in their place, and this one way he kept annoying O'hara. I was unable to find a still photo of this at the time...but I have one now. I was going to send it to JJ for his vintage wet site, but he appears to have left the scene now...so I uploaded it to theWambank instead. Here you can see Ford throwing water over Maureen, while John Wayne takes delight in Ford's actions...

http://www.thewambank.com/celebrities.php?id=451&list=0

FYI, you can see similar thing with the famous Julie Andrews scene from "The Sound of Music"...with Julie being wetted down with watering cans. The stills and behind the scenes home movie footage of her wettings can be found as a DVD extra on the 40th anniversary edition.

http://www.thewambank.com/celebrities.php?id=450&list=0

BTW...another never before seen wetlook scene that no wetlook fans know exist....can be found as a DVD extra on the 1968 film "Sweet Charity"....cos everybody knows the famous black dress wetlook scene from that film...but nobody knows that there was an ALTERNATE ending shot for that film...where Shirley goes into the lake for a 2nd time at the end of the film, this time in a flowery dress and white pantyhose. That 2nd wetlook scene was never used, cos director Fosse did not like that ending...so they dropped that scene from all the movie and tv airings, but on the dvd release you can see that alternate wet scene restored.

It's a shame that JJ is not around to maintain his site, cos I have tons of new pics and infos I could send him.

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