Wetlook World Forum

There is a great outtakes picture (I wish I could find it again) taken during the making of the movie "The Sound of Music"...where director Robert Wise is seen pouring additional buckets of water over Julie Andrews...during the making of the boat capsizing scene. As Robert Wise wrote in the book I saw this picture in, she did not look wet enough when they were shooting those scenes, so before each re-take he would pour another bucket of water over her. I saw the pic in a movie book about the Sound of Music about 20 years ago...but was not able to copy it....perhaps JJ can find the pic for his vintage archives.

Similarly...there is a great pic I also saw in a movie book, taken during the making of the 1957 John Wayne movie THE WINGS OF EAGLES (I think it was a book about director John Ford). There is a scene in the film where Maureen O'Hara runs into the lake in her best Easter Parade Party dress, hose & heels...and is then seen wet and bedraggle in a vintage car. Again...director John Ford did not feel that Maureen looked wet enough on camera...so there are some great photos in this book of John Ford taking sadistic delight in pouring extra buckets of water over Maureen O'Hara...and Maureen just standing there getting drenched  with a perplexed look on her face. I wish I could find those pics again...cos those pics would be a worthy addition to JJ's collection too.

Of course...many times tv producers "cheat" and do not portay a wet actress properly. How many times have we seen "fake wetlook" on soap operas... where an actress merely exits the scene...and returns to the scene supposedly wet...and all they have done is run off stage and somebody dampened their hair...but their clothes are still dry...bummer. But sometimes the continuity artists actually over-do the wettings...i.e. there is one classic episode of LAVERNE & SHIRLEY where the girls are dressed up in their best dresses to go for the night out...and they leave the set and you hear them squeal cos they are supposedly getting a soaking from a fire hydrant that you never see. However...when the girls leave the stage..they must have been doused by several buckets of water each cos when they re-enter the scene they are totally drenched....now THAT was a great scene.

MK