Announcing the “Dual Roles Blogathon: One Actor ~ Multiple Roles”

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Yahoo! Look at this fun blogathon we’re hosting with Christina Wehner. Join us if you can!

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Dual Role BannersThere is something particularly riveting about watching a film where an actor plays more than one role. Ronald Colman in The Prisoner of Zenda, Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap, Michael J. Fox in the three Back to the Future films. Even Ginger Rogers in The Major and the Minor.

It is that combination of technical know-how, make-up, and the sheer skill of an individual actor that produces the peculiar exhilaration one can feel. Cinema is, after all, about role playing and the illusion of reality, an image of reality. What can typify this more than the concept of dual or multiple roles?

In that spirit, Ruth of Silver Screenings and I are so excited to announce the Dual Roles Blogathon: One Actor ~ Multiple Roles.

Time – Friday, Sept. 30th – Sunday, Oct. 2nd

Rules – Duplicate posts on the same film are most welcome (it seems…

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  1. Meredith Leonard (@meredydotcom)'s avatar
    Meredith Leonard (@meredydotcom) July 20, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    I’d like to write about Bette Davis as Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips in Dead Ringer (1964). 🙂

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      Silver Screenings July 22, 2016 at 4:19 am

      Excellent! It wouldn’t be a proper blogathon if someone didn’t bring Bette to the party. Looking forward to it! 🙂

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    realthog July 20, 2016 at 6:15 pm

    Oh, yeah, and this blogathon pops up just about ten days after I’ve written at egregious length elsewhere about Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1931/2)? I feel picked upon . . .

    I could do the 1941 version, I suppose. Better that than The Parent Trap.

    Maybe.

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      Silver Screenings July 22, 2016 at 4:20 am

      Ooh – I hope you do decide to do the 1941 version.

      It was a case of rotten timing, wasn’t it? 😦

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  3. Sarah Brentyn's avatar
    Sarah Brentyn July 20, 2016 at 6:45 pm

    Ooh! I’m not sure… I’ll get back to you ASAP but I’d like to write about Dead Again. (Kenneth or Emma)

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      Silver Screenings July 22, 2016 at 4:21 am

      I hope you can join us, Sarah – and with a look at Dead Again, too! It’s been a while since I’ve seen that film, but I remember really enjoying it and being COMPLETELY blindsided by that plot twist.

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  4. FlickChick's avatar
    FlickChick July 22, 2016 at 4:09 am

    Hi Ruth. Dipping my toes back in the blogathon pool… May I write about Charlie Chaplin in “The Great Dictator”?

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      Silver Screenings July 22, 2016 at 4:22 am

      That sounds great! I was hoping someone would choose that. It appears you’re not on the list yet, so I will fill in the form on Christina’s site for you. Yay! Looking forward to this. 🙂

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  5. ChgoJohn's avatar
    ChgoJohn July 25, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    This should be fun, Ruth. 🙂

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      Silver Screenings July 25, 2016 at 1:30 pm

      Yes, I’m really looking forward to it. We already have a lot of interest & a good variety of films.

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    Shari July 25, 2016 at 12:42 pm

    How fun! I love movies like this.

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      Silver Screenings July 25, 2016 at 1:31 pm

      Me too! It was hard to pick just one.

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