The film's tag line was "The Violence-Screen's All-Time Rocker-Shocker!"
A cocktail is mentioned, mentioned by the General, played in 1945/46 by a man, Charles Waldron, who was born in 1874, five years before my grandfather.
Mr. Waldron was born when this young lady, Ellen Terry, John Gielgud's aunt, 16 in this photograph taken in 1864, was 26:
Something in that photo just does not seem like the Civil War is still raging. That photo may have been taken the week which saw the USS Housatonic (commissioned on my birthday) succumb to the C.S.S. H.L. Hunley...and the Colt fire...
William Faulkner worked on this film. His time in Hollywood was amusingly alluded to in "Barton Fink".
This can't help but evoke Nathaniel West and "The Day of the Locust", though I preferred "Miss Lonelyhearts". There is a character named "Homer Simpson" in Locust, but I think Groening's dad was named Homer...
Everybody remembers Bacall. Here are a couple of shots of Dorothy Malone, a 1956 oscar winner:
Dorothy Malone with Bogie in THE BIG SLEEP
2 comments:
Stop the James Joyce commentary! It is too much for us drunks to handle!
Do not the pretty girls distract you from the historical content and yet not your beer?
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