Yay! DR Danise is back among the flock. This is fantastic news!
I had a wonderful time visiting Bruce Pomahac; we watched the Jean Simmons-Spencer Tacy film THE ACTRESS, based on Ruth Gordon's autobiographical comedy AGES AGO. It's quite delightful. I had read Miss gordon's biography so i was wise to a lot of the story but the fictionalizations to make a play were very interesting. There's one sequence that looks as though Meredith Willson lifted it for THE MUSIC MAN and the film has the same look as THE MUSIC MAN and MEET ME IN ST LOUIS, although the Jones family in Massachusetts is in a lower class income than the family in St Louis. Jean Simmons is beautiful and wonderful as 17 year-old Ruth Gordon, as are Teresa Wright and Spencer Tracy as her parents, and everyone else, especially the wonderful character people and the two young actresses playing her high school friends. I believe it's Tony Perkins' first movie.
Then we watched the silent film version of SHOW BOAT with Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut. Neither of us had ever seen it, and it's amazing. Much more faithful to the novel, it's a very powerful and beautiful film.
And now I'm home and ready to pass out.