AUBURN CORD DUESENBERG CLUB

Greg Riley

Well, I found another one. I've been asked to do digital marketing for the Keels and Wheels Concours in Seabrook, TX. After I loaded my video and was checking my tags, guess what I found?? This one is great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luv5nA9BEGM

Also take a look at the one for Keels and Wheels (and rate it five stars please Smile

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwzhcNWQos

I must have too much time on my hands!
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Chris Summers · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject:

Looks like the Nethercutt Collection's car (J-533) with different headlights.
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Ancora imparo.

AceCollins · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject:

Youtube's Duesy clip is great. I recognize Constance Bennett, what a beauty! You don't see many 37 Ford Woodies either. Any idea which movie that is clip is from. Looks like a great screwball comedy!
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1936 Cord 810 Westchester

Greg Riley · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject:

I sent an e-mail to the poster to find which movie. The Riley's wanna watch it!
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RandyEma · ACD Club Member Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 113

If it is j533 then it is most likely the original The Great Gatsby movie

AceCollins · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject:

Don't think it could be Gatsby, Constance Bennett wasn't in that movie. Here is a list of movies she was in during that period. Don't know if this list will help.

Two-Faced Woman (1941) .... Griselda Vaughn
Law of the Tropics (1941) .... Joan Madison, aka Miss Moore and Laura
Escape to Glory (1940) .... Christine Blaine
... aka Submarine Zone (UK)

Tail Spin (1939) .... Gerry Lester
Topper Takes a Trip (1938) .... Marion Kerby
Service de Luxe (1938) .... Helen Murphy
Merrily We Live (1938) .... Jerry Kilbourne
Topper (1937) .... Marion Kerby
Ladies in Love (1936) .... Yoli Haydn
Everything Is Thunder (1936) .... Anna von Stucknadel
After Office Hours (1935) .... Sharon Norwood
Outcast Lady (1934) .... Iris March
... aka A Woman of the World
The Affairs of Cellini (1934) .... Duchess of Florence
... aka The Firebrand
Moulin Rouge (1934) .... Helen Hall/Raquel
After Tonight (1933) .... Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag
... aka Sealed Lips (UK)
Bed of Roses (1933) .... Lorry Evans
Our Betters (1933) .... Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston
Rockabye (1932) .... Judy Carroll
Two Against the World (1932) .... Miss Adele 'Dell' Hamilton
What Price Hollywood? (1932) .... Mary Evans
Lady with a Past (1932) .... Venice Muir
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1934 Auburn 652Y Four-Door Sedan
1936 Cord 810 Westchester

Chris Summers · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject:

It's "Merrily We Live," 1938.
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ACD Club Duesenberg Historian
Life Member #192

Ancora imparo.

AceCollins · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks. Need for TCM to show it sometime.
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1936 Cord 810 Westchester

AceCollins · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject:

It will on TCM on February 12th. I am going to DVR it. Supposed to be one of the funniest movies of the golden era, was nominated for four or five Oscars.
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Greg Riley · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 7:24 am Post subject:

Does anyone have a picture of it today?
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Chris Summers · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:16 am Post subject:

We're still trying to pin down the exact identity of the car. It's been suggested that it's J-560, Clark Gable's car, before Bohman & Schwartz modifications; but I was under the impression that the car was delivered to B&S "in-the-white," NOT FINISHED by Rollston. Also, Gable's car in the period was cream with normal Duesy headlights, and he didn't sell it until after Carole Lombard died in 1942, so that it wouldn't have modified into this form by 1938.

The car does, however, have the Gable car's double rear spares.

Several other features do not match up with the Nethercutt Collection's J-533 (running boards, windshield frame).

Perhaps Randy Ema or someone else can clear this up.
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Chris Summers
ACD Club Duesenberg Historian
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Chris Summers · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject:

A list of "Duesenberg Cars in the Movies" in my files lists "Merrily We Go Along" as having "Duesenberg Model J--(Gable's Car)."

Doesn't match up with the facts as I (thought I) knew them but...hmm...
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ACD Club Duesenberg Historian
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Angelo Van Bogart · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:47 pm Post subject:

There's a still photo from "Merrily We Live" in the book "Fit for the Chase: Cars and the Movies" by Raymond Lee. The photo shows Contance Bennett, Jimmy Stewart and a front view of the Duesenberg.

The book has a lot of cool photos in it, but the cars aren't always identified correctly. Inside, there's also a rarely seen photo taken from the driver's side of the Duesenberg attributed to Frank Morgan.

I'm also surprised no one has mentioned the other Duesenberg in the "Merrily We Live" video clip. In the brief moment it's visible, it looks like a Murphy convertible coupe with skirted fenders.

Angelo Van Bogart

RandyEma · ACD Club Member Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 113

Merrily we go is J 560 Randy

Bryan R. Peterson · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject:

Hi all,

I watched the clip and was amazed to see the horrible way in which that car was treated - the grinding gears and then the crash - I'd be livid if I were Clark Gable.

Also, why does that car sound so horrible when it runs - I've heard many Duesenberg engines running, they should be whisper quiet - NONE have sounded so horrible, was the car built with special muffler baffles for that throaty sound?

I also noticed that if you pause that clip at 1:20 - you can see another Duesenberg roadster parked along the road - I'm not sure which car it is but it looks like a Rollston bodied disappearing top roadster, possibly a '34?

Maybe Rangy can comment on this.

Thanks,

Brian
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