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Thursday, October 26, 2023

Spook Louder - 1943


Spook Louder
(1943), a Three Stooges short, offers a little bit of Halloween creepiness, some wartime references, and several pies thrown in several faces.

The boys start out as door-to-door salesmen selling a "miracle reducing machine."  A woman answering the door -- slim as a rail and towering over the gents, is the first and easiest laugh-out-loud sight gag.  From there, as always happens to our heroes, circumstances in the struggle to pay the rent get considerably muckier.  Or yuk-ier.

They are hired by an inventor of a death ray (check your local directory), to watch his house while he goes off to Washington, D.C., with his invention to offer to the government that will kill millions.  And no, it's not the one you're thinking, but hindsight gives us a feeling of discomfort that audiences in 1943 couldn't imagine.


Three enemy spies show up in Halloween costumes, and the Stooges, (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard), must thwart their attempts to infiltrate the house.

But we must consider the philosophical question:  What is really more spooky and terrifying -- three men in silly Halloween costumes, or Three Stooges holding a bomb?


I leave it to you.

Happy Halloween!

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Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star. and Movies in Our Time - Hollywood Mirrors and Mimics the Twentieth Century and Hollywood Fights Fascism and Christmas in Classic Films. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - follow this link for a free book as a thank-you for joining.

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Upcoming Zoom Talk - Christmas in Classic Films


This is to announce that next month I'll be doing a Zoom presentation on my book Christmas in Classic Films.


The talk is being hosted online by Sal St. George and the St. George Living History Productions.  Mr. St. George is an
 Adjunct Professor and Lecturer presenting programs across the U.S.A. specializing in Old Hollywood, and Motion Picture & Television history.  St. George Living History Productions has presented Zoom programs to thousands of viewers worldwide. Mr. St. George initiated Virtual Road Trips to Celebrity Museums and so far, those Zoom Road Trips have taken his audience to:

The Will Rogers Museum, The Red Skelton Museum, The John Wayne Museum, The P.T. Barnum Museum, The Mary Pickford Exhibition, The Lizzie Borden Museum, The Rosemary Clooney Museum, The It's a Wonderful Life Museum, The Clark Gable Museum, The Phil Silvers Museum, The Laurel and Hardy Museum, The Buffalo Bill Cody Center, The Ginger Rogers Museum, James Dean Museum, The Patti Page Exhibition, Edward Hopper Museum, The Yogi Berra, The Donna Reed Museum, and much more.


It's a great privilege to be invited to present my book in this special venue, and I'm looking forward to enjoying a fun discussion on how Christmas is pivotal in some films which really are not "Christmas movies."


The event is scheduled for Monday, November 20th at 10:00 a.m. ET.  Please join us, I'd love to meet you on Zoom.  

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Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star. and Movies in Our Time - Hollywood Mirrors and Mimics the Twentieth Century and Hollywood Fights Fascism and Christmas in Classic Films. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - follow this link for a free book as a thank-you for joining.

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Happy 100th Birthday, Glynis Johns!

 


A very happy 100th birthday to Glynis Johns, whose work we've mentioned in previous posts on suffragettes in movies and in No Highway in the Sky (1951).

A most joyous milestone, indeed, for this lovely veteran of screen and stage.  Well done, Sister Suffragette!

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Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star. and Movies in Our Time - Hollywood Mirrors and Mimics the Twentieth Century and Hollywood Fights Fascism.  Her latest book is Christmas in Classic Films. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - follow this link for a free book as a thank-you for joining.

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