UndineSpragg

Hello, Forum folks, may I join in? Geraldine Fitzgerald and Errol Flynn would have made a wonderful Beatrice and Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing, don't you think? With Patric Knowles and Brenda Marshall as Claudio and Hero. And Ian Hunter as the Duke of Messina. Henry Daniell as Don John. Sorry, got carried away!!---

It is fun reading everyone's comments on TBYOOL-- you are all so terrifyingly articulate I sort of hesitate to say anything myself but here goes-- one of my favorite parts of this movie is the Derry menage on the wrong side of the tracks, and I greatly enjoyed Jack Favell's comments on that aspect, you put it in just the right words. I always thought that it was a common law marriage too, you can just sort of tell. There is a sad little moment near the end when Fred is packing up to leave town, and his dad tells him, this is your home town, don't you think you ought to try and stick it out? and I thought oh gee Mr. Derry, you stuck it out in Boone City and what good did it do you? At the very end, when Fred is telling Peggy, oh we'll have to work hard and there won't be much money etc. I thought well, Fred, there's one great thing you can give her and that's the best pair of in-laws a newlywed gal could ever wish for. Can you imagine how they would spoil the grandkids. No one else has mentioned this but one of my favorite scenes has always been where Butch and Homer are sitting together at the piano, having a little chat--"Homer, your folks are worried about you" (I'm quoting from memory)-- and Butch ends up "Well the next war we'll none of have to worry because we'll all be blown up in the first 5 minutes anyway." Anybody else out there like that scene as much as I do? it just gets me every time.