I am off in the rain for shopping and banking today.
I watched MY COUSIN RACHEL last night on TCM....they are doing a short Robert Osborne tribute between films and instead of the regular intros. From what happened at the very beginning, I thought the hero was going to end up hanged....but he didn't
Then I watched PRINCE OF PLAYERS which had lots of nice Richard Burton scenes of William Shakespeare. It also had Maggie McNamara doing the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet with him. Ba-ro-ther! She's not spectacularly bad like Susan Strasberg in STAGE STRUCK, but she is shockingly bad...... It was Fox in 1954, so I guess we should be glad we didn't get June Haver or Sheree North in the role.... Jean Peters might have been okay!
John Derek was John Wilkes Booth, and dark mysterious music played every time he hit the screen - even when he was 12 years old.....courtesy Mr. Bernard Herrmann.