Name 10 Facts about this Movie

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5.) "Love Is On The Air" was filmed in three weeks, but wasn't released until four months later.

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6) "Love is On the Air" was one of six films released in 1937 directed by Nick Grinde.

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7)

A working title was "Inside Story".

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8.) Andy McLeod (Reagan) is demoted to children's programing when the sponsors complain to station maganger about his sertions about local crime.

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9. The program Reagan's character hosts is sponsored by the E.E. Nichols department store.

 

 

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10)

This movie is a remake of the 1934 movie HI, NELLIE!

It was remade again in 1942 as YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FOREVER and again in 1949 as THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET.

 

Next:

 

THE BANK DICK (1940).

[ForTheWaters]

1) The Bank Dick was added to the National Film Registry in 1992.

 

 

 

 

Here's an alphabetical list of the films used so far, including the current one.

All About Eve, Anatomy Of A Murder, The Apartment (twice), The Band Wagon, The Bank Dick, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Birdman Of Alcatraz, Bonnie & Clyde, Bringing Up Baby, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Casablanca, Chinatown, Cleopatra (1963), Double Indemnity, From Here To Eternity, Giant, Gigi, Grand Hotel, The Grapes Of Wrath, The Heiress, It Happened One Night, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, King's Row, Lawrence Of Arabia, Love Is On The Air, Marty (twice), Miracle on 34th Street, My Fair Lady, My Sister Eileen, North By Northwest, On The Waterfront, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Psycho, Rear Window, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Singin' In The Rain, Snow White & The 7 Dwarfs, Some Like It Hot, Sweet Smell Of Success, To Kill A Mockingbird, Top Hat, Vertigo, West Side Story (twice), The Wizard Of Oz

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2)

Reportedly, some of supporting comic Shemp Howard's scenes were trimmed at W.C. Fields' insistence because he thought Shemp was being too funny and stealing scenes from the star.

 

 

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3.) "The Bank Dick" was written by W.C. Fields, using the alias "Mahatma Kane Jeeves" (derived from Broadway drawing-room comedy cliche "My hat, my cane, Jeeves").

[GIPPER]

4.) At one point, Joe the bartender (Shemp Howard) whistles "Listen To The Mockingbird", which later was used at one time as the recurring theme song for The Three Stooges.

[musicalnovelty]

> {quote:title=GIPPER wrote:}{quote}4.)

> At one point, Joe the bartender (Shemp Howard) whistles "Listen To The Mockingbird", which later was used at one time as the recurring theme song for The Three Stooges.

4a.)

To be accurate, actually "Listen to the Mockingbird" was used as the Three Stooges' shorts theme tune BEFORE "The Bank Dick", not later. It was used from 1935 to 1938, and "The Bank Dick" came out in 1940. After that, and until the final Stooges short in 1959 "Three Blind Mice" was used.

 

Further trivia:

Columbia Pictures never gave composer Septimus Winner credit as writer of the song "Listen to the Mockingbird", in fact, didn't even use the song's original proper title. Instead they entitled it "Stooge Emblem" and gave composer credit to arranger Louis Silvers.

I figure it was because the song must have been Public Domain by then, so they didn't feel they had to give proper credit.

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5)

 

The main titles music was reused the next year for the 1941 Universal Picture NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK, also starring W.C. Fields.

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#6 (from way back when) The question arises as to the pronunciation of Souse..as in a drunk? or Sousay.

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7)

 

 

Actor George Moran had been half of the vaudeville/screen/recordings team Moran & Mack, who usually performed in blackface as "The Two Black Crows".

 

 

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hmmm..what's going on? from April

 

 

8) The credit on the soundtrack is given to Shemp Howard for whistling Listen To the Mockingbird.

 

 

[Dothery]

Concerning the pronunciation of "souse," that always bothered me. It's not an accent grave over the "e", it's an accent aigu, if you're going to pronounce it "sousay." W.C. should have known better because he was such a word-lover. (However, I can't fault him on his pronunciation of Homosossa.)

 

For authority, I offer Sister Julie in senior French, circa 1945.

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That's #9

 

 

10) Egbert Souse states he's very fond of children. Girl children around 18 and 20.

 

 

New film: Sunset Boulevard (1950)

 

 

 

 

 

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!) Montgomery Clift was the original choice to play Joe Gillis.

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Nancy Olson received her only Oscar nomination for this movie.

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3) Demille, in the film, called the Swanson character, "Little Fella". THat's what he had called Swanson when they worked together back in the day.

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4) "Charmaine" was the song played on New Yrs Eve. First written for a silent film in 1927, became a hit for Mantovani soon after Sunset Boulevard. Later used as backround music during Monty Python scenes.

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6) After an initial screening of the film, Louis B. Mayer said to Wilder, "You have shamed our industry". Wilder told Mayer to go f*** himself.

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Nancy Olson was the fresh new face cast as Betty Schaefer, script girl. Her role earned her a Supporting Oscar nomination. She is a native of Wauwatosa, WI and the niece of my 6th grade teacher.

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8) Sunset Blvd went to Broadway in '97 winning 7 Tony's including one for Glenn Close as Norma Desmond.

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9) THis was the final film in which Wilder collaborated with Charles Brackett on the screenplay.