Gus in the movies.

[Samuel Gravina <sgravina@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I just signed up for http://www.movieflix.com.  They have a bunch of poor
resolution old movies and TV shows that you can watch for $6 a month.

I typed "harmonica" in the search and came up with "Pot O' Gold" staring
Jimmy Stewart & Paulette Goddard.  Steward plays a music store owner who
needs money so he works for his rich music hating uncle.  He meets the
beautiful girl next door who happens to own the house the the rich uncle
wants for his business.  Not to ruin the story but he gets the girl and
everyone is happy in the end.

In the first scene a girl comes in to practice piano, she's actually playing
and playing at the highest level.  Then a boy comes in and starts practicing
trombone, he is amazing too, then some teenagers start dancing to a record.
Meanwhile the owner notices that a harmonica in the display window doesn't
sound right, he plays it several times verifying that something is wrong.
He puts some oil in a few holes and fixes it right up!  Then he plays it
again!  Good thing he wasn't actually playing it cause he would have gotten
a mouth full of oil.

Stewart doesn't actually play in this movie but he sure looks like he is
playing.  It's been mentioned here before that Jerry Adler did the playing.

In one scene the hero is so impressed by a swing band that he hears
practicing that he goes and hides behind a big plant and starts playing
along.  He's playing really loud and they all hear him.  They all stop
playing but he doesn't notice and keeps playing.  They like his playing so
much that they give him the score and ask him to play along.

Stewart does a great job in this scene.

So Gus has been around since at least 1941.

Sam