Post by rmichaelpyle on Aug 14, 2009 4:51:37 GMT -6
Watched the fourth of four films on the new release "Icons of Screwball Comedy, Volume One", this one "My Sister Eileen" (1942) with Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair. I had only seen the 1955 re-make and really wanted to see this one because it has such a fine reputation. I must admit, however, that I thought it was, by standards of today, so very tame that I really wasn't as interested as I thought I would be. Maybe it's just not my brand of comedy, although I will say that watching Rosalind Russell is another thing. She's so very good. She has a charasmatic touch to everything she does. Usually, although not necessarily always, I enjoy Brian Aherne in good light-hearted comedies, and he's all right in this, but he's just not active enough. Rather tame part. Best part in the whole thing belonged to George Tobias as Appopolous, the man who rents out the flat to the two sisters. He's great, and he steals every scene he's in, besides. Also in the show are Grant Mitchell, Elizabeth Patterson, Allyn Joslyn, Gordon Jones, June Havoc, Richard Quine, and many, many uncredited actors and actresses, including - at the very end - the Three Stooges! All in all, very well done, but dated.
By the way, yes, there is a volume two with four more!
By the way, yes, there is a volume two with four more!
