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january 2012 ocd viewer skip to navigation skip to main content skip to secondary content skip to footer ocd viewer chronicling popular entertainment from 64 years ago home ocd viewer monthly archives january 2012 the bishop s wife dec 9 1947 posted on january 23 2012 by adam lounsbery some people will tell you that movies made by committee are what s wrong with hollywood they re wrong movies made by committee have always been around and like everything else made by committee they occasionally turn out just fine henry koster s the bishop s wife for instance is a sweet little christmas confection it won t fill you up and it will possibly leave you wanting more but for what it is it s delicious the original director was william a seiter but producer samuel goldwyn didn t care for what he came up with so he replaced him with henry koster koster s version had its own problems so billy wilder and charles brackett made some uncredited revisions to the script the biggest change from seiter s version was that david niven and cary grant switched roles but there were several other changes for one teresa wright who originally played the bishop s wife was replaced by loretta young but niven and grant s role switching is the big change that everyone talks about and with good reason the priggish but always likable niven is perfect as henry brougham the episcopal bishop whose cathedral building project is destroying his personal life and grant is perfect as dudley the angel who s sent to put henry back on the right track it s as difficult for me to imagine anyone but the ageless and effortlessly charming grant as dudley as it is for me to imagine anyone but edmund gwenn as kris kringle in miracle on 34th street dudley shows up on earth in answer to henry s prayer for guidance but he s not an unearthly angel who waves a magic wand that sets everything right while he can move objects with his mind stop busy traffic on madison avenue while helping a blind man cross the street and presumably do pretty much anything he wants he mostly just puts ideas in people s minds good ideas that they end up thinking are their own dudley is also not an ethereal androgynous angel whose feet never touch the ground he s cary freakin grant and his good lucks and charm have quite an effect on henry s neglected wife julia loretta young one afternoon after henry s forced to cancel yet another date with his wife due to his work on the cathedral dudley takes her to lunch at michel s the french restaurant where henry proposed to her after dudley orders julia tells him you speak french beautifully i ve had quite a bit of work to do in paris dudley responds and when dudley takes julia s hand to read her palm oh how the old bluenose biddies tut tut the bishop s wife takes place around christmas and it s a wonderful holiday film it s also an excellent comedy even though its broadly humorous moments are rare mostly its just a heartwarming romantic and delightful film and the scene in which dudley takes julia ice skating and uses his magical powers to make them both glide around the ice like olympic champions is one of the most enjoyable bits i ve seen in a long long time 1 comment posted in 1947 december 1947 and tagged cary grant comedy david niven henry koster holiday films loretta young rko radio pictures samuel goldwyn bookmark the permalink good news dec 4 1947 posted on january 16 2012 by adam lounsbery hey kids do you think nostalgia is only something for baby boomers hazily recalling woodstock or generation x ers and their 80s dance parties guess again nostalgia has been around since there were people old enough to remember their youth and know that they d never get it back charles walters s good news for instance took viewers in 1947 and 1948 back to the good old days of 1927 when people were dancing the charleston when will rogers was elected mayor of beverly hills when coolidge chose not to run again when flaming youth ran wild and when a girl was a flapper and a boy was a sheik unfortunately good news is about as convincing a portrait of the 20s as grease 1978 was of the 50s it s a sanitized technicolor version of the racy original which was based on the hit broadway play that premiered in 1927 in the special features section of the dvd i watched there were a couple of scenes from the 1930 version of good news and in spite of their static camerawork and unimaginative black and white cinematography they were totally and completely electrifying take a look at the scene below in which dorothy mcnulty performs the song varsity drag it s an athletic goofy wild number full of sexual innuendo and all kinds of good stuff that would be impossible to have on screen after the enforcement of the hays code like the underwear shot at 3 minutes and 20 seconds incidentally dorothy mcnulty later changed her professional name to penny singleton and starred in the blondie movies she was also the voice of jane jetson on the jetsons anyway the 1947 version of good news just can t hold a candle to that kind of wild vivacity it doesn t help that peter lawford who stars as b m o c tommy marlowe was cast more for his appeal as a heartthrob than his talent as a singer he s not terrible but he looks uncomfortable throughout the proceedings especially when he has to sing and dance at the same time his leading lady june allyson who plays shrinking violet connie lane is also a bit of a disappointment but their funny duet the french lesson is an amazing bit of fast paced wordplay the most energetic and fun to watch performer in the film is joan mccracken who plays the man hungry babe doolittle her performance of pass that peace pipe is a highlight of the film a very young mel tormé also shows up for a couple of songs lucky in love and the best things in life are free so good news is worth seeing if you re a fan of the velvet fog the song pass that peace pipe which was written by ralph blane hugh martin and roger edens was nominated for an academy award for best original song but lost out to zip a dee doo dah from song of the south 1946 leave a comment posted in 1947 december 1947 and tagged charles walters joan mccracken june allyson mel tormé metro goldwyn mayer musicals patricia marshall peter lawford bookmark the permalink killer mccoy nov 30 1947 posted on january 2 2012 by adam lounsbery nineteen forty seven was the year mickey rooney turned 27 and the star of the andy hardy series and family fare like national velvet 1944 was looking to stretch his range as an actor and step into more grown up roles roy rowland s killer mccoy is a remake of richard thorpe s the crowd roars 1938 which starred robert taylor as a young pugilist named tommy killer mccoy who was caught between his no good father and his gangland manager hopefully there ll be a second remake next year starring former child star haley joel osment maybe they could even throw in a drug related in ring breakdown à la oliver the atomic bull mccall or a tawdry and mysterious death à la arturo gatti but i digress killer mccoy isn t a bad flick and mickey rooney is pretty good in it but it has the misfortune of being a boxing picture that was released right around the same time as body and soul which is one of the best boxing pictures of all time if you re a fan of knock down drag out fights killer mccoy does offer more punches per foot of film than body and soul on the other hand if the number of punches thrown was the only measure of a boxing film then rocky iii 1982 and rocky iv 1985 would be superior to rocky 1976 and rocky ii 1979 and we all know that ain t the case rooney is pretty convincing as a boxer the filmmakers don t try to shoot around how unbelievably tiny he is so it makes sense that his character starts out fighting as a featherweight and moves up to lightweight although i think in real life rooney would probably have been more in the flyweight and bantamweight range the boxers he faces are mostly little guys too like bob steele who plays a former lightweight champion named sailor graves the supporting cast is generally good i love seeing diminutive cowboy actor steele in anything and the same goes for brian donlevy who plays boxing manager and fight promoter jim caighn and actor james dunn is great as tommy mccoy s drunken father a former vaudevillian who clings to the past the problem is not with the actors but with the story which never really allows its characters to become three dimensional people caighn the manager is an especially egregious example he has a double life as carrson a wall street tycoon who is far removed from the disreputable world of boxing caighn doesn t want his daughter sheila carrson ann blyth to know about his double life this is all totally ludicrous of course and only exists to manufacture a stumbling block to sheila s romance with tommy mccoy killer mccoy is competently made and entertaining if you re able tolerate mickey rooney which a lot of people aren t its boxing matches are well choreographed and action packed it s no body and soul but then again what is leave a comment posted in 1947 november 1947 and tagged ann blyth bob steele boxing brian donlevy drama james gunn metro goldwyn mayer mickey rooney roy rowland bookmark the permalink recent posts beyond a reasonable doubt sept 13 1956 the violent years 1956 on the bowery september 1956 i vitelloni aug 26 1953 rock around the clock march 21 1956 search for 18th academy awards 19th academy awards 20th academy awards 20th century fox 21st academy awards 22nd academy awards action adventure alfred hitchcock anthony mann ben hecht bobby blake bob steele boris karloff british cinema bruce bennett charles mcgraw columbia pictures comedy dana andrews darryl f zanuck david buttolph drama eagle lion films earle snell espionage thrillers family films film noir foreign films fred harman general film distributors george zucco herman schlom holiday films horror jack l warner john ireland john wayne lee zahler lon 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