Steve Rogers passes the Shield of America to Kristi Noem:
05.03.2026 21:32
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Steve Rogers passes the Shield of America to Kristi Noem:
And Marie Dressler giving what would have to rank high on any list of best “takes” in film history.
I watched her last week in the beautifully restored version of “Saraband for Dead Lovers”. A very atypical part for her but she was fine.
Pretty much the story of my professional life.
I prefer poppy seed but can we all agree on no prune?
Oh, can you get stucco!
This month. Next month.
By next month
There was a joke like that on THE TWO RONNIES: “Tonight on the show, your very own Googie Withers - and what to do if it does.”
As a Goldwyn Girl in Roman Scandals:
From the 1941 WB cartoon HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT:
Yes, I know fame and stardom are the same thing. My excuse is I tend to consider social media to be First Draft Writing.
Made her fame and stardom doing comedy but DEAD END proved she had great dramatic chops too.
Picture of NYC:
Today is the birthday of Kenneth Williams (100!) and Giulietta Masina. You might remember them from their movie CARRY ON MIMING.
I believe Fubsy Loxes got bookings in the Catskills when Jan Murray was unavailable.
Have you seen the film where Michael Sheen played Williams? Worth a look.
Harold Prince and Joshua Logan - two legendary stage directors who should have never be permitted within a mile of a movie camera.
Was it worse than the movie? That one was staggering.
My favorite Sondheim show. And the National Theatre production was just as good as the original. One of those shows that I don’t want to see unless it’s a first rate production.
Interesting. My two Desirees were GJ and JD - both superb.
You couldn’t call this one a glitch but I think it qualifies as an oddity that the OCR of Golden Boy was recorded even though they knew going in that its star Sammy Davis Jr. was having serious vocal problems. Is there any other example of that?
My father, who worked in television during the live days of the 50s, told me Hardwicke was the one doing a live play set on a plane when he went up on his lines. He stood up and said “Well, this is where I get off” and walked off the plane.
I think you have to be consistent and hire Florence Lake for Linda. Here we see Willy Loman trudging home with his heavy sample case;
“You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.”
Kathleen loved working with Jerry Lewis over multiple movies and he clearly loved working with her: youtu.be/P6uspjCDdxg?...
When I first started reading Superman as a kid, there were no artist credits, but his Superman became the Superman in my head.
