Preston Sturges: The PurPOLL one, with the pluuuuuuuuuuuumes at the hips.

I used to play Russian Roulette all the time with my father!

Despite my failure to have watched them all, I seriously doubt my heart can be stolen away from "Unfaithfully Yours."

The Lady Eve, now and forever, but The Great McGinty-Hail the Conquering Hero may be the greatest sequence in American comedy.

As ridiculous incarnations of male insecurity go, I can hardly see how Fonda comes within a hundred miles of Harrison.

i got a cheapo box set of sturges stuff for xmas, just waiting for the time to settle in with it...

i watched em all (well, not the late ones) in rapid succession two years ago and have some difficulty separating them. probably between 'sullivan's travels' and 'miracle of morgan creek' for me, based on what i can remember.

favorite to least

# Sullivan's Travels (1941)
# The Lady Eve (1941)
# The Palm Beach Story (1942)
# The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
# Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

although they were all pretty good!

I have still never seen his last two, reportedly both dispiriting.

The five stone masterpieces from Lady Eve thru Conquering Hero are maybe the most amazing 4-year feat by a Hollywood writer-director. My fave has always been Morgan's Creek, but I can't argue vs picking any of those (tho Palm Beach is probably the fluffiest, and most antic).

TS: Mary Astor in Midnight vs Mary Astor in The Palm Beach Story.

morgan's creek the funniest, voted sullivan's travels cuz lake is so smashable

jeez, put it in yr pants (I'd be smashing Joel McCrea and not Eddie Bracken. well, not now.)

Voted 'Lady Eve' but these are all great. Lake is indeed quite fetching in 'Sullivan's Travels' and I am a big fan of 'Unfaithfully Yours'. I find 'Miracle at Morgan's Creek' a little grating at times, actually.

i think that dude in morgan's creek is the funniest actor ever.

Jerry Lewis fans have a headstart on appreciating Bracken (who I did get an autograph from).

xp: Demarest?

no, i meant bracken!

Morgan's Creek = just not my style of humor. I've tried. I think I'd have to go with Lady Eve too.

I'm not crazy about Bracken either; I rank his two 1944 movies below their predecessors.

If Jerry Lewis' The Ladies Man doesn't count, then The Palm Beach Story is my vote for the greatest classical Hollywood comedy. So that. Then Christmas in July if only for Ellen Drew's climactic, eternal speech which I recommend to those who don't get the fascination with American Idol. Then others. Definitely check out the underexposed The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. Most overrated: Some snowy night, in front of the fire.

Harold Diddlebock, Unfaithfully, McGinty and Christmas all splendid but a notch or two below the others. I don't hate Great Moment either.

I love them all to varying degrees but like you, haven't seen the last two.

guess i gotta say eve or sullivan's. fuck, where the fuck is MY sturges box set... which of my deadbeat friends borrowed it

I have to admit, I couldn't finish Hail the Conquering Hero. I guess I should try again.

Maybe you got distracted by ...the spots! ... the spots!

Oh wait, wrong Eddie Bracken movie.

HtCH out-Capras Capra.

in a good way.

morgan's creek is hilarious, so that
i actually don't like sullivan's travels at all (despite v. lake)
palm beach is funny too but doesn't hold up on repeat viewings very well

the ones of these ive seen are unfaithfully yours and lady eve

"Convulse me."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Palm_Beach_Story_McCrea_Colbert_trailer_screenshot3.jpg/250px-Palm_Beach_Story_McCrea_Colbert_trailer_screenshot3.jpg

Would Palm Beach Story/Ride the High Country be the most jarring McCrae double feature? Sounds worth trying, at least.

Why would it be? He's so amiable and unassumingly sexy (I find him hot, actually).

Just really different roles, I guess. Maybe I'm talking nonsense. It happened before, once.

all hail The Miracle of Morgan's Creek DVD
I Don't Think He'd Have Given It To Me If I Had Hair Like EXCELSIOR Or Little Legs Like An Alligator

Went for The Lady Eve, even if the second half doens't quite measure up to the first.

I'll also join the chorus of Bracken dissenters

Yeah, Bracken annoyed me too. But I'm here to praise Sturges, so ignore the negativity.

you guys are a bunch of Ratzkywatzkys

Kockenlocker!

I've only seen the first seven plus "Unfaithfully Yours" (which woulda been better if it had Bill Demarest in the Lionel Stander role the way Sturges intended) but yeah, whatta half-decade. This'll require some thought...

Sullivan's for The Win!

Have to vote for 'Lady Eve', but if the ones I haven't seen that you fellas are raving about are even better than I've got me some treats awaiting.

THEN not than

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

How should I vote? Ack! How could I vote?

(tears his hair out and runs from room to room)

I'll take over from here, Ambrose.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

having seen only sullivans travels, i shall watch the rest of his movies in the order the poll above suggests (i didnae vote)

I watched the Palm Beach Story again last night. Fun, but I am well content with my vote for Sullivan's Travels.

Saw Christmas in July today, laffed like moron about every other minute. When he was explaining his convoluted slogan all I could think of was, uh, ILM.

it isn't the coffee...

I'm not sure, but my favorite scene of these might be in "Unfaithfully Yours" when the wife is being given a death sentence and Rex Harrison is in the back of the courtroom laughing his head off.

Holy Smokes, The Palm Beach Story! Just...WOW.

The Ale & Quail Society=The NRA in my eyes.

morgan's creek the funniest, voted sullivan's travels cuz lake is so smashable

― s1ocki kong country (cankles), Tuesday, March 3, 2009 10:11 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^

WEENIE KING

Yeah, c'mon, the Weenie King! Palm Beach Story is the best.

I got a Sturges box for Christmas, and re-watched "Palm Beach Story" recently. I love how unsentimental Colbert is in the break-up scenes, and Vallee is pitch-perfect as John D. Hackensacker. Just about perfect.

Jim Knipfel praises The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (I really liked it the one time I saw it):

http://chiseler.org/post/48926315855/harold-lloyds-last

haven't watched any of these in a long time but the one that affected me most was 'christmas in july.' the final speech mentioned upthread still makes me choke up a bit.

From Unfaithfully Yours:
"Is there any insanity in his family?"
"I don't know but there's plenty in mine."

Glad I've finally made the mental genre adjustment and warmed up to that one.

crick! CRICK!

Sullivan's Travels never quite got to the level of the first scene again, although Lake killed it.

Lost its way quite a bit, and not only on one occasion.

Have Morgan Creek and Palm Beach Story ready to once I get a college break.

Sullivan's Travels doesn't stay in standard Romantic Comedy mode the whole way through, it is somewhat similar to Unfaithfully Yours in that regard, but this doesn't necessarily mean it is lesser than the other films.

I agree with darraghmac though -- it's my least favorite of the classics.

Yeah, mine too, truth be told, but I've watched the others so many times feel like it was time to give some love to that one. Also, I didn't fully get Unfaithfully Yours until last year.

yeah, i don't think that it was a failure to hold to a given genre that pulled me out of it though, and i wouldnt hold such a failure as a negative if the script kept a thread moving throughout the events. for all its snappy lines and good character turns (you'd not expect less anyway) it tacked on a beginning and an ending to a bit of a muddled middle imo.

tbh a lot of Depression and post-Depression films garble their politics. Check out My Man Godfrey or Easy Living.

you hafta appeal to eberbody!

also fuck you guys

I need to watch it again. Trying to remember, is Al Bridge the heavy when Sullivan is on the chain gang? If so, a departure from his usual grumpy but ultimately amiable self in the other films.

But not from his prior roles as in Hopalong Cassidy films apparently. He's like another splinter member of The Wild Bunch.

In the forties, Bridge was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in ten of the eleven American films that Sturges wrote and directed.[7] He is perhaps best remembered for his role as "The Mister", the chain-gang boss over Joel McCrea in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels.[8][9]

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend isn't that bad. Kind of Tashlin-like, if I remember correctly, at least in its brightness and zip and silliness, if not in its style of editing and use of blackout gags.

Thanks, darraghmac, but I already reconstructed that gone missing neurological pathway between posts, same way I recently had to remind myself of Julius Tannen's "talking picture" bit in Singin' in the Rain

Palm Beach the last night. Lovely.

miracle last night. patchy greatness, didn't really ever get behind the two leads as the two leads (obv dad and sister are great great great).

^heresy

They are obviously cartoonish, funhouse versions of the boy & girl next door, and Bracken freely admitted they were trying to upstage each other the entire film.

TRUDY KOCKENLOCKER

^^^^^^^

great McGinty

maybe the one that holds together best?

The Lady Eve.

The Lady Eve seconded.

Positively the same opinion!

Lemme aks you a hyperthermical question.

Gimme a spoonful of milk, a raw pigeon's egg and four houseflies.

OK its a clear top 3 with eve and it happened one night.

ya I know I've watched a gang of talkies lately gimme a break

i watched it happened one night again last summer, not having seen it since i was a teenaged capra fanatic (and not really getting it then, because it wasn't, y'know, idealistic and soppy), and it was just gangbusters.

is that a good thing?!

Yeah, I watched It Happened One Night a couple of times in the last two years and it was still good, but I tried rewatching Mr. Deeds Goes to Town a few months ago and its politics made me retch.

gangbusters def a good thing!

reluctant to watch deeds again for the same reason, though i caught the last 90 mins of Its A Wonderful Life at xmas and was still destroyed by it.

The Lady Eve under discussion at The Dissolve:

http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/746-the-scorching-sensuality-and-style-of-the-lady-eve/

http://www.criterion.com/films/28103-the-palm-beach-story

http://www.criterionforum.org/caps/palmbeachblu00011.jpg

American...Sniper

Saw If I Were King (1938) as my only visit to the latest NYC Sturges series -- probably the most 'major' of his pre-directing writing jobs I'd never seen. It's real good! More high comedy than swashbuckler, Ronald Colman never wittier than as Francois Villon in an already oft-filmed story. (A Parisian peasant girl asks him as they share time in a dungeon, "An epitaph? What's that?" "Oh, usually something good about someone bad.") Pro direction by Frank (Mutiny on the Bounty) Lloyd. Basil Rathbone, cackling as Louis XI, reminded me weirdly of SCTV's Joe Flaherty.

It's a little like McGinty in 15th-century France, tho libertine virtue dominates corruption. Blotchy rendering on YT, don't watch that; otherwise hard to see cept on TCM i guess.

jealous

x2 :/

Missed the whole festival myself. Guess I will be handing in my Preston Sturges Fan Club Membership ID Card to Bruce G this Sunday at the FF Brunch.

ask him when they'll show The French They Are a Funny Race aka Carnets du Major Thompson.

Will do.

I have your answer

He showed it 1990, it is hard to get a hold of, it isn't very good.

well i did know 2/3 of that

but thx

There's a little more, sort of: Yesterday he showed a restored film of a vaudeville act featuring one of Sturges' stock company. I think he showed more such stuff at TCMfest about a month ago. He also told the crowd that the first film ever shown at current FF location was Sullivan's Travels

Finally saw Hail the Conquering Hero and good grief did I ever connect with it. Certainly would have given it a vote here. I guess I just assumed it was another schlocky WWII comedy, but train arrival scene is certainly next-level chaos choreography.

There Is Nothing Outside the Real: Preston Sturges on André Bazin (video)

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/2015/07/29/there-nothing-outside-real-preston-sturges-andr-bazin

http://moviemorlocks.com/2015/09/26/preston-sturges-origin-story/#more-86954

Last night my wife and I watched a DVD of The Good Fairy, a film Sturges wrote, but it was directed by William Wyler so it didn't appear in this poll. Nevertheless, the script was pure Sturges, the pacing and acting was impeccable, and it had us both laughing aloud constantly. A real gem.

Margaret Sullavan was wonderfu.

wonderful too

Was pretty disappointed by The Palm Beach Story. McCrea and Colbert not onscreen together nearly enough, and the whole train sequence is both unfunny and unpleasant. I realize that lots of people love it, but I really don't find it to be anywhere near the equal of The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels or Unfaithfully Yours (I still need to see the others).

^^Banned from The Ale & Quail Club--4 Life!

Lol

McCrea plays peevish well (I still say "Convulse me" to students who insist a joke is hilarious).

Home movie footage shot by El Brendel on the set of Preston Sturges's BEAUTIFUL BLONDE FROM BASHFUL BEND (1949). Also seen are Sterling Holloway, Snub Pollard, Sturges (at 1'06" and 1'33" (on horseback)), Betty Grable, Hank Mann, Rudy Vallee, among others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB_ld-Eh4JU&feature=youtu.be

Thanks!

^^Banned from The Ale & Quail Club--4 Life!

not sure i was at that one tbh

Sure you were. You invited donna rouge then we had five people, too many for one team, so you two were one team and In Orbit, dmr and I were Mr. Atoz's Bookmobile - "A Star Trek reference," as the host said.

c'est vrai! i don't remember what bar that was (magnetic field?) but i remember correctly answering a question about coin collecting

Wasn't Magnetic Field, but I did that one once with JBR/L and In Orbit and we came in second. It was in the Slope more or less, near Grand Army Plaza, place was called Shelley's maybe, something starting with an S.

Sharlene's

That's it I tell you! The Big S!

Finally saw Miracle Of Morgan's Creek this week. I enjoyed it so much - it literally never stopped being funny.

Good morning, darling! You look like the last grave over near the willow. Are you worried about something?

There's as fine a specimen of the sucker sapiens as I have ever seen.

Positively the same thread!

Remember The Night (Capra written) is quite good, certainly atypically romantic for Sturges, features probably the best Barbara Stanwyck performance of them all? Getting more and more into her, if I can handle John Wayne and Mitchum being shitty republicans I can handle her being so, too. Sturges got very angry at the changes to his script and demanded to direct - the extras in the Indicator release make a good case for director Mitchell Leisen as an interesting auteur unfairly forgotten due to Sturges' and Wilder's sour grapes, punctuated by more than a bit of homophobia.

All good, but Capra?

I don't know if it's her best, but whenever I watch a Stanwyck performance I often think THIS is the best one.

Even Christmas in Connecticut?

Sturges, sorry, James

No worries.

Actually she is good in Christmas in Connecticut. I can’t make up my mind about that one, can’t even ever remember the director’s name.

Agree about Mitchell Leisen and Remember the Night. Another Sturges/Leisen film is playing as well at the Film Forum this month, Easy Living with Jean Arthur, can’t remember having seen it.

As part of
https://filmforum.org/series/written-directed-by-preston-sturges

Maybe I should go see some of the Written Bys, like The Good Fairy and Beggars of Life.

Anyway, Remember the Night always feels like a real find, although I sometimes get it confused with that other skewed Xmas movie discovery that is even less frequently seen, Robert Siodmak’s Christmas Holiday with Gene Kelly and Deanna Durbin.

So weird that everyone seems to be stumbling upon Remember the Night all of the sudden! I only just saw it last year and don't remember ever hearing anything about it before. Fantastic film, though. As is Easy Living (if for almost entirely different reasons).

I saw it years ago, enjoyed it but had only a vague, um, memory of it, then saw it on TCM last month as part of a Stanwyck Christmas double bill along with you-know-what.

Getting more and more into her, if I can handle John Wayne and Mitchum being shitty republicans I can handle her being so, too.

This at least helps:

During filming of To Please a Lady, Stanwyck refused to leave her African-American maid Harriet Coray in a hotel only for African-American people and insisted that she share the same colored hotel as her. After much pressure from Stanwyck, Coray was allowed to stay in the best hotel in Indianapolis along with Stanwyck and the rest of the crew and cast.

Ahem. Some pellicular pedantry if you will. Her maid spelled her first name with two t's, Harriett.

Was she actually a "shitty" republican? I don't think it makes much sense to care about party affiliation in the 40s/50s; no shortage of shitty democrats back then too. To state the obvious, Alfred's story is one reason she might have been an R ("party of Lincoln" etc).

On the subject of Liesen, I watched Hold Back the Dawn recently and it's excellent. As with Remember/Sturges (which is wonderful, yes) it reflects poorly on Wilder that it was some kind of breaking point for him. I seem to remember thinking Midnight was slightly better than Easy Living, but I also can't quite separate them in my memory and they're both pretty delightful.

Midnight is much better than Easy Living, but I've a pretty strong anti-Arthur bias.

Stanwyck was pretty popular in Hollywood with cast and crew alike; her bio has dozens of anecdotes of her on-set kindnesses and her lack of ego (Sirk and Wilder have said she would sit by herself with the script, knowing everyone else's lines).

As for her politics, well:

She became an early member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA) after its founding in 1944. The mission of this group was to "combat ... subversive methods [used in the industry] to undermine and change the American way of life."[92][93] It opposed both communist and fascist influences in Hollywood. She publicly supported the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and her husband Robert Taylor testified as a friendly witness.[

otoh here's Sirk (re-posted from the Stanwyck thread):

Unfortunately I couldn't give her any great parts in those days. I did see All I Desire again. And you know there is nothing, NOTHING the least bit phony about her ever. Because she isn't capable of it. That insignificant little part she did with me and she played it all right out of herself. And yet she is so discreet -- she gets every point, every nuance without hitting on anything too heavily. And there is such a tragic stillness about her at the same time. She never steps out of it and she never puts it on, this deep melancholy in her presence...

...But that was a rare thing. She impressed me all the time as someone -- what can I say? -- someone who had really been touched by life in some way. Because she had depth as a person. I wish I could have done a really great picture with her...

I read a biography a few decades ago that talked about Preston Sturges' mother being involved with Alesiter Crowley. Think it must have been a Preston Sturges one I read in Dublin. Just sticks in my mind from way back when think they were engaged or something.
Think I need to watch a few of his films cos it's been a while.

Ah right, I think I did at one point know about the HUAC-y stuff. Oh well, she's pretty handily one of my favorite actors of all time, so I choose not to care. Plus her career/filmography is an enduring political (feminist) force itself. Compared to your Waynes and Mitchums, it's hard to see Stanwyck-the-star as anything other than progressive on balance, imo. Way off topic now, but I saw her in Fuller's Forty Guns recently and that is such a blast plus and a sincerely remarkable role.

Need to watch that properly. Was just thinking that the relationship with the brother may mirror her relationship with her own brother.

All good, but Capra?

https://filmforum.org/series/written-directed-by-preston-sturges
Jan 20 to Feb 2
https://filmforum.org/do-not-enter-or-modify-or-erase/client-uploads/FF_Sturges_Series_flyer_v7.pdf

Yup

Quite pleased that on our group chat a student admitted she'd watched among other "old Hollywood films" The Palm Beach Story this weekend.

What’s buzzin’, cousins?

Can never unread what I read about Rudy Vallée in Dark City Dames.

Say, what’s the big idea, anyway?
Kismet!

You shouldn’t be giving away a real kolinsky.

With a little corruption from you, the curfew shall not rang next week.

This is the last cheese in the trap.

Now kiss each other goodbye and get back to your offices!

Why? I’ll tell you why. I don’t beat around the back door just to come down in the coal chutes!

Now starting to regret that I missed my chance to see The Good Fairy at The Film Forum.

Take the young lady up to the Imperial Soots!

The storm and strifes, she just give me a buzz

This time the goose is geesed or vice-versa.

If I could get a word in edgeways around here, with one of my unimportant quibbles, we’ll get somewhere!

Play excuse the live-blogging. I liked that a lot more than Morbius, I guess.

Here is his take: S/D, POX: Screwball comedies

Also reposting a link he provided to an overview of a Leisen retro: http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/design-for-living-20081023

There's a ton of info hidden on the TCM website that can't be found anywere else but you have to click through a bit to find it, such as in these notes: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/73851/easy-living#notes

Leisen cast Esther Dale as the secretary because she looked just like Eleanor Broder (apparently his assistant); and the phone gag was based on Broder, who used to get the several telephones on her desk mixed up. Broder, quoted in the modern source, states that Arthur was "terribly concerned" with the way she looked, and Leisen personally directed all her wardrobe and hair tests and styled her hair himself, with the belief that if an actress is satisfield with the way she looks on the screen, she will devote all of her attention to her acting.

caught four of these at the recently-concluded Film Forum series: Unfaithfully Yours, Morgan's Creek, Lady Eve, and Palm Beach Story. Had a good time at all, would rank them descending in that order. UF had me DYING, what a beautiful balance of verbal, observational and slapstick laughs, with the slapstick mostly pushed to the end so you're REALLY on board for seeing this guy taken down every possible peg.

Palm Beach Story was still packed with good line deliveries, but, cryptosicko otm upthread: the train sequence is bad.

(as always, nothing like great comedy in a theater. also for three of the four, i went with my pal who knew and really loved the films since way back, so it felt extra fun.)

So then wouldn't The Lady Eve rank above Morgan's Creek?

Woulda gone to some of those with you DC!

i don't know what to say to people who don't like the train sequence in Palm Beach Story--if you don't love a bunch of drunken hunting assholes singing at the top of their lungs and driving their hunting dogs through the train waking people up, not to mention the shotgun shooting inside the meal car. . . . I mean that's like peak movie watching. Just astounding

It goes on for a bit and the cutaways to the google-eyed Black waiter are a bit much (and I know the latter was standard for its time). I don't hate it, though. I like the shot of the uncoupled train receding while the drunken fools keeps shouting and shooting.

was watching the Lady Eve over the weekend and he just has set pieces in the middle of films just for a laff. . . like when Eugene Pallette is hungry for his breakfast. . . there's like 4 or 5 little bits just to get to the part when he's banging the lids together. hilarious

No one played patrician exasperation better than hardcore conservative Pallette.

you can see the steam coming out of his ears

"Standard for its time" sure but I do think Sturges is amongst the auteurs least shy about having these comedy black characters; don't see as many of them in Hawks and Wilder. Which doesn't necc mean he was worse - erasure is as insulting as caricature, at least he got some black actors paid - but yeah, more uncomfortable moments for sure.

Xposts

Should I buy Stuart Klawans’s book, I wonder.

Spending money stimulates the economy and creates JOBS!

What Would the Weenie King Do?

I’m generally not a fan of screwball comedy, but I tried The Palm Beach Story since it’s leaving Criterion, and enjoyed most of it. But man, that scene with simultaneous firearms, piano pounding and dogs barking is everything I dislike about the genre, confusing loud and frantic for funny.

Finally watched EASY LIVING for the first time a few weeks ago, hadn’t even realized it was leaving until yesterday. Maybe y’all saw me live blogging it up thread. Both Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder and no doubt Andrew Sarris as well badmouthed Mitchell Leisen so much I used to steer clear of him but he has several classics under his belt, minor or otherwise.

Hmm. Sarris filed him under Likely Likeable and was a pretty big fan of EASY LIVING.

https://bampfa.org/event/easy-living-6

As Andrew Sarris notes: “Curiously, Easy Living is the only film with which Sturges the writer was associated in the thirties that may be reasonably preferred to any of his own forties films. Not only is Easy Living funny and gracious and generous in the best Sturges tradition: it is velvety smooth and comfortably movieish in a way no Sturges-directed film ever was.”

Don’t know if this has been linked yet.
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2022/cteq/some-enchanted-evening-mitchell-lesien-and-preston-sturges-remember-the-night-1940/

You're up late!

Saw Sullivan's Travels again last week. I forgot how broad the slapstick is! The smart in Sturges is really smart, but the stupid is really stupid. As a director he doesn't seem to have much of an idea how to shoot pratfalls, even though there are a LOT of them.

I think a lot of the directors Sarris lowballed in the '60s he ultimately came around on when the '90s rolled around

That's probably true, but I get the feeling that many people weren't paying close attention by that time and still live by the sacred text that is The American Cinema.

Just saw The Lady Eve for the first time (actually caught the last 3/4 then watched the entire thing with my wife.

"I need him like the ax needs the turkey."

What a great movie! One thing that was incredible watching it the second time was how so much happens in the last 20 minutes (the whole second relationship).

I just rewatched a few weeks ago for the umpteenth time and was also amazed when I noted how short that section is time-wise.

morgan's creek the funniest, voted sullivan's travels cuz lake is so smashable

― s1ocki kong country (cankles), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 bookmarkflaglink

Watched Sullivan's last night. This is true re: Lake, even when she switches to playing a bum

Nice to see this bumped. Yesterday Iwas toying with the idea of changinf my display name to The Wienie King.

Screened 30-Day Princess, an early Struges' script/riff on The Prince & The Pauper with Sylvia Sidney & Cary Grant, tonight on Criterion and good grief the man was already fully-formed in 1934. Lots of stylistic connections to his classic '40s films.