{"id":18369,"date":"2026-02-01T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18369"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:24:52","slug":"the-party-1968-blake-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18369","title":{"rendered":"The Party (1968, Blake Edwards)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The same day I wished I was watching <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12182\">Mon Oncle<\/a><\/em> during the WC Fields three-story house routines, I end up watching Blake and Peter Sellers make an American Tati movie.  And like the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18368\">Fields movie<\/a> this has barely a plot (inept foreigner is fired from a movie and accidentally invited to the studio boss&#8217;s fancy party), is more about putting a comedian in a setting where he can get into hijinks.  The <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/207\">normally racially-sensitive<\/a> Edwards decided Sellers should be in brownface, because white British men weren&#8217;t permitted to be as socially weird as the script requires until the 1990 invention of Mr. Bean.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/party1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>The hot French girl (mainly known for having shot her boyfriend) likes our guy, but is menaced by her <em>McHale&#8217;s Navy<\/em> costar Gavin MacLeod.  Party host Alice was in anti-marijuana picture <em>Assassin of Youth<\/em>, and the film director was downgraded to a TV director in <em>The Fortune Cookie<\/em>.  Drunk Waiter Steve Franken is the breakout star, went on to appear in some late Jerry Lewis films.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sellers and the Drunk Waiter:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/party2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/party3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same day I wished I was watching Mon Oncle during the WC Fields three-story house routines, I end up watching Blake and Peter Sellers make an American Tati movie. And like the Fields movie this has barely a plot (inept foreigner is fired from a movie and accidentally invited to the studio boss&#8217;s fancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,537,627,91,86],"class_list":["post-18369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-blackface","tag-blake-edwards","tag-filmmaking","tag-peter-sellers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18392,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369\/revisions\/18392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}