by DoghouseRiley »
Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:52 pm
Hi viggie.
Visible mechanism jukeboxes are quite expensive in the UK.
To get something even like a Wurlitzer Lyric made in Germany, it's going to cost around £1,500.
A good "Silver Age" machines would be around £3,000.
The ones I've got I can remember from my youth, I'm quite happy with them.
I'm not interested in spending a lot of money on something I'm going to keep in a glorified garden shed. I wouldn't expect my wife to have one in the house. She has to put up with my electric piano and my alto and tenor saxophones, to add a jukebox would be "pushing it."
Martha Vickers was a far better actress than Lauren Bacall. The release of "The Big Sleep" didn't happen until I think nearly a year after it was filmed, by then Bacall and Bogart were married and an additional "romantic" scene was filmed and added, (the one in the restaurant where they're comparing people to racehorses).
Some scenes featuring Martha Vickers were cut from the final print, as the producers didn't want her upstaging the rather wooden performances of Bacall.
It's now 110 years since Bogart was born.
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