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I assume you're talking about Mrs. Brown? I was also reminded of The Mudlark from 1950 with Irene Dunne as the Queen and Finlay Currie as John Brown.

I thought Robinson's character was in what we'd call the payroll department nowadays. I have a memory of there being a cashier's office at John Lund's workplace (an engineering firm) in The Mating Season since he has to take an advance on his salary, but I'm not certain.

Does anybody actually go naked?

No he's not. I tried watching this once, and bailing on it 20 minutes or so in when all the horrendous Irish singing started in earnest.

Did they come back to the five and dime?

Disney's copyright-lengthening lobbying doesn't help either. Before 1976, things were under copyright for 28 years, and could be renewed for another 47. If that were still the case, then the films of 1942 would be entering the public domain this year. But the blankety-blanks at Disney are worried that people are going to make hardcore Mickey-on-Donald action or something if Steamboat Willie ever goes out of copyright. Never mind that trademark would be perfectly accurate to protect popular characters like them.

To be fair to Ben, the British can't pronounce English names right, either. Look at how they pronounce Derby or Clerkenwell, for example. One of my favorites was a BBC report about the two careers. I had no idea what the reporter was going on about, until he mentioned "North Career" and "South Career".

I speak German and Russian, and I can tell you your comment is decidedly not true.

"King of the Duplicators" with Fred Tuttle (I believe that was his name)? The one where he makes the interviewer bald? I've seen that before, but was watching stuff off my DVR last night.

The death mask is a thing too.

And that clip was followed by... The Mike Curb Congregation. And you can really blow their minds by pointing out that Mike Curb was the acting Governor of California.

Sepiatone: Show them Glen Campbell and try to explain to them the phenomenon that was Minnie Pearl:

Have you seen the one Cary Grant wore in The Howards of Virginia?

The research Einstein did that won him the Nobel Prize (not e=mc^2) was started all the way back around 1905, and Einstein won the Nobel in 1921.

I can't say what movie I'd pair with Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, because the moderator would have an apoplectic fit.

Penny Serenade and The Baby.

The Lost Weekend and Less than Zero.

Psycho, followed by Les diaboliques.

Many years ago in a TCM Programming Challenge, I did a double feature of Our Daily Bread followed by Soylent Green.

Technically, shouldn't "Montand" have a pair of nasal vowels in it? And have fun pronouncing the Czech Ř that appears in the names of two key crew members of Closely Watched Trains: Producer Jiří Menzel and star Václav Neckář.

I'd tell her I only want to photograph the right side of her face.

Be aware that Groovie Movie is a Pete Smith short.

Planter's Peanuts, no doubt.

There's the Lemmon/Matthau movie Out to Sea, and as I posted in the "I Just Watched" thread, Georges Méliès made a 1907 film called "The Eclipse".

If you haven't heard, there's a solar eclipse today. L'Éclisse is not French for "The Eclipse", so instead I watched some Georges Meliès: That's one homoerotic eclipse.