crock1960 Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Have seen "With Six You Get Eggroll" many times, including an original screening back in 1968, when I was eight years old, and only now did I recognize Jamie Farr and William Christopher as biker/hippy types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicalnovelty Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 I caught part of that movie too, tonight on TCM and enjoyed the unexpected appearance of the group The Grass Roots performing one of their lesser hits, "Feelings" from 1968. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 I wonder how many people recognize George Carlin in this film (his pre hippie days). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crock1960 Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 Good Lord! What scene? I don't recall seeing Carlin (although I'll admit I was flipping between this movie and the Dodgers-Rockies game. Viva Puig!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc1 Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 William Christopher, (Father Mulchay) also has a small part in the Fortune Cookie. Jamie Farr and William Christopher did a version of The Odd Couple on stage awhile ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 You didn't recognize George Carlin, just my point. He was at the drive up stand throughout the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulio Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 In August of 1968 when I was 13 going on 14, I had the good fortune to attend the world premiere of this film in Boston at the Orpheum. I sat directly in front of the director, Howard Morris and cast members Pat Carroll and Barbara Hershey. Howard, to his credit, refrained from striking me as I asked him dozens of questions about working with Doris Day. (He adored the experience and said he would love another shot). While the film, as the first venture of CBS' film division, may have some television roots, it received good reviews and did very well at the box-office. In fact out of Miss Day's 39 motion pictures, it is one of the top ten in terms of Box-Office gross. I think the strengths of the film are the exceptional chemistry between Miss Day and Mr. Keith, who are believable at all times. In addition, Miss Day's on-screen believability with the three children, never resorts to "cute". Very few female actresses of that era could play, on-screen, with children and seem so natural. She followed her Oscar-nominated role in "Pillow Talk" by playing a mother to several children in "Please Don't Eat the Daisies". Witness also, "It Happened to Jane" and "The Thrill of it All". In "Eggroll" she showed an on-screen maturity that could probably, had she not been sentenced to the CBS sitcom for five years, have led to numerous follow-up roles that would have built on her strengths. One can only imagine what might have been. When I met Miss Day for the first time in the 1970's at her home in Beverly Hills, I told her I'd seen "Eggroll" 54 times. In her typically modest fashion she deadpanned, "And you didn't get Diabetes?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Carlin said in an interview that although he was glad to get the part, as it meant a new direction in his career, the procces of movie making( at the time) turned him off from doing movies for a long while. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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