[Robert Taylor]

Robert Taylor was more than just a bad boy with the HUAC; he informed on Howard Da Silva and writers connected with The Song Of Russia. He also insisted that MGM forced him to make Song of Russia, and he later had to recant this statement when Mayer challenged him.

 

This man was an informer, and a terrible actor, without the informer persona.

[The Children's Hour (1962)]

There are many things encoded in William Wyler,s films, (Ben-Hur eg) and the observation about MacClaine's shirt is really incredible. I thank you for it.

 

I think this film has numerous "props" like this, in order to broaden the base circa. 1961, when The Children's Hour was shot.

 

I remember seeing it first -run , and I recall that the audiences were shocked, but the theatre was packed. People then, like myself, had perhaps a sense that this film, among so many commercially appropriate films, had something very important to say, sur[rising as that something may have been.

 

When Shirley MacClaine breaks down in the living room in front of Audrey Hepburn, I recall a deep silence. It still impresses me a great deal, and is so timely. I think it is Shirley's best work. There's a lot of 1961 in 2009,

[Old TV shows]

Whatever became of December Bride with Harry Morgan and the great Spring Byington?