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no one has mentioned this thus far, I think, but I read a long interview with Donnie Dunigan (sp?) who plays the kid in this movie and is (IMO) pretty enjoyably terrible in his part ("well Helllooooo there!") He was later the voice of BAMBI and later than that a US MARINE who served with distinction and was a lifelong serviceman, just a fine human being. He also told a story about Lionel Atwill, who for the record, is very good as the Inspector in SON OF FRANKENSTEIN) touching him innapropriately and asking young Donnie if he was good at "keeping secrets." Donnie mentioned this to (I think) Basil Rathbone (who he recalled quite fondly) and the situation got shut down ASAP. SON OF FRANKENSTEIN ended up being Atwill's last hurrah, after a busy decade in the thirties where he did innumerable classic adaptations, horror films, and was even a leading man of Dietrich, he was reduced in the forties to very small roles (including nIGHT MONSTER, another Universal film, where his character is killed off after about three lines of dialogue.) I will see if I can find the article....

BTW, "Macabre Lava" would be an AWESOME name for a band.

No, the clip I posted was a joke someone put on YouTube where they impersonated Madonna in the Hayward role. It was remade for TV sometime in the eighties, and was a bruef series in the nineties, and was even a BBC Radio adaptation in 2005, but I don't think there are any current plans to redo it.

1974.

have any of you seen ISN'T SHE GREAT? (2000?), the Paul Rudnick-written film bio of Jacqueline Susan starring Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, and Stockard Channing? It was probably one of the worst reviewed-films of the year, cost $44 million, made $3 million and pretty much ended the film careers of almost all involved. Is it that bad? (I haven't seen it.)

I was especially amused by the hot male backup dancers during the stage show and the Christmas tree dress ca. 40 seconds in.

pretty damn funny.

OMG, that totally did not occur to me. I admit I did wonder if maybe Liza unleashed that zinger on Judy during one of those mother-daughter spats that flare up from time to time, only to experience major karmic blowback on it later in her life (see: Peter Allen.) One thing is for sure, marrying a gay guy pretty much gives anyone you get into an argument with the ammo to shut you down on the spot....Unless that person has also married a gay guy at some point in their life or has some equally spotty judgment on their own record, ie letting an escaped axe-murderer into their house because he was dressed like Santa Claus. ps- in my defense, the beard and costume looked authentic.

HELEN LAWSON "Get outta my way: I got a man waitin' for me!" NEELY O'HARA "Well, that's a switch from the [gentlemen who prefer the company of gentlemen] you usually hang with." HELEN LAWSON "Well, at least I never married one." It's over: that's Helen for the win. I know the wig thing that follows is bad, but I'm sure she's got plenty back home, and whatever, minus the wig, she's a dead ringer for Helen Mirren, and you could certainly do worse than looking like Helen Mirren. No, Neely serves and Helen lobs that one right down the middle and takes her out. No arguing.

I'm torn. There are two (maybe three) Dean threads, but I know you best of the OPs, so I guess I'll post this here. I only watched the first two last night. The first, which was a half hour presentation was pretty amateur in its overall execution (the guy playing the hardcore gangster heavy was good though.), but it was interesting to see some of Dean's unrestrained "out there" moments. There was not a lot of "there" to the script though. The second was better, Dean had a smaller presence, but was more restrained (but still not restrained.) Betsy Palmer with her funny mercedes Macambridge-like voice was interesting, I ended up really liking the guy who played the "good cop" who falls for Palmer and the lady who was married to the murdered druggist who looked a lot like Imogene Coca. And a nice twist at the end.

Posted this in the HAYWIRE FOR HAYWARD thread, but will also share in case any of you missed it. Heartbreaking: ps- in re: The Nancy Reagan Red suit with the Tina Sinatra boots: YES, JUDY, YES!!! pss: pass on the caftan and the white beaded number or have SERIOUS ALTERATIONS made. YES ON THE PANTSUIT.

I watched an AMAZING documentary on youtube about just who the members of the MPAA are a while back. It is amazing. I would look it up and try to post the link, but I find posting full videos here results in their getting pulled. (I'm sure you can track it down via wiki or bing, it is WORTH WATCHING.) They are people who are, I think, appointed for life and have NOTHING to do with the motion picture industry.

I'm sure she could figure it out. Maybe she was more lax in her hemispherical face policy when doing legit theatuh (back then only so many were gonna see it.)

Claudette would be like, "yeah, I'll play it frumpy...on the right side of my face,,,"

Yeah, good luck getting Susan to play frumpy. YOU get to go in her trailer and tell her.

Quite frankly, neither would I. THAT was what was SO NUTS about the film, that the wife is so cool and seemingly unaffected by this. Even after finding out what Swiss Miss is up to, she plays it low key. I would be removing my earrings and getting the furniture out of the way to prepare with an epic throwdown...provided the man was worth fighting for.

I did not know Colbert and Boyer did the play. Now it makes sense that it was a hit on Broadway. Those two plus Julie Newmar could probably read the Long Island phonebook and run for at least 300 performances. Man, what a lucky author to get that level of talent to do your terrible, terrible play. (and of course, I can see the mistake in casting Hayward and Mason for the movie, because while they weren't young at the time, they still had quite a bit of individual sex appeal. I could see where the comedy would come from in the story of a frumpy intellectual middle aged couple who has their marriage challenged by a young babe.)

I missed that. Just went to imdb and found Hayward's character was named Content Delville. What in the living name of all holy Hell is that about?

I know. In real life, I think we all know Suzie would say, "honey, go in the kitchen and get me the stepladder. I think once I get this ***** by the hair, I can manage to drag her out of here."

and it was SO STUPID!

Thought the exact same. and YES! (assuming, of course, that you mean Claudette and not Stephen.)