Why isn't anyone screaming about THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER not on Blu? (1 Viewer)

[darkrock17]

It's a sure sign that someone (usually the director) doesn't trust the material

It can be, but if you look at all the great screwball classics, their directors pretty much gave the actors free range on what they wanted to do.

 

[Will Krupp]

It can be, but if you look at all the great screwball classics, their directors pretty much gave the actors free range on what they wanted to do.

I was trying to give Cagney and Davis a convenient "out"

 

[darkrock17]

I was trying to give Cagney and Davis a convenient "out"

Both of them were good at comedy, just at the time in Hollywood though, the studios didn't think comedies were right for them and thought only drama's would get audiences to the theaters.

 

[Will Krupp]

Both of them were good at comedy, just at the time in Hollywood though, the studios didn't think comedies were right for them and thought only drama's would get audiences to the theaters.

If that was true, though, they wouldn't have put them in a comedy at the height of their stardom in the first place. Farce just WASN'T right for either of them.

 

[Robert Crawford]

If that was true, though, they wouldn't have put them in a comedy at the height of their stardom in the first place. Farce just WASN'T right for either of them.

I think Cagney was good at comedy, but it depends on which comedy you're talking about.

 

[darkrock17]

If that was true, though, they wouldn't have put them in a comedy at the height of their stardom in the first place. Farce just WASN'T right for either of them.

Being miscast in the wrong films was a common thing back in the golden age of Hollywood.

 

[Will Krupp]

I think Cagney was good at comedy, but it depends on which comedy you're talking about.

I was talking about The Bride Came C.O.D.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I was talking about The Bride Came C.O.D.

I know that, as I was just saying that Cagney was good at comedy, but it depends on the movie as to how good because comedy is the most subjective of all the film genres. As to "The Bride Came C.O.D." I thought Cagney was okay, but not so much Davis in it. It's not a bad comedy, but it's not great either.

 

[ponset]

Here is the LUX RADIO THEATER version of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" with
Clifton Webb and Lucille Ball.

 

[Will Krupp]

I know that

Whoopsie!

(though I kinda tought you MUST have....!)

 

[Chewbabka]

On TCM 12/20 9am ET
Also 12/23 10:15pm ET