Comedy
The Rehearsal
The Rehearsal is a 1969 short comedy, written and directed by Stephen F. Verona. It is a humorous short where a director becomes frustrated with a quisitive actress during the rehearsal of a play. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
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Dick Clair
Jenna McMahon
Directed by
Stephen F. Verona
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7/102/2/2025
When actress "Janice" (Jenna McMahon) turns up quite late for a rehearsal, she is taken on a run-through of a "Mother Goose" style of story featuring "Miss Muffet" and her tuffet, "Little Bo Beep", "Humpty Dumpty", curds & whey and questions. Loads and loads of questions from her as director "George" (Dick Clair) energetically tries to explain to her this particular fairy tale whilst the pair get plenty of others confused into the mix. When she sees the spider, well she goes method enough to impress Olivier before she begins to take over and turn the thing into the stuff of Ingmar Bergman! It's really quite funny this, not least because both artists embrace the increasing ridiculousness of the scenario - and the supposed conversation between "Miss Muffet" and "Bo Peep" is reminiscent of on
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