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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 10 2013, 03:01 PM Post #1 |
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Now HERE'S a Monogram moo'n pitcher for ya. The film and the backstory are entwined, shall we say. So let's discuss both, shall we? Vaudevillian Grace Hayes plays Vaudevillian Grace Hayes, real-life son Peter Lind Hayes plays her real-life son Peter; his girlfriend Mary Healy is played by his wife Mary Healy. Huntz Hall plays Skeets, and I dunno whom he was related to. (Peter and Mary also starred together in The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, and a short-lived TV series. They were married nearly 60 years, until Peter's death in 1998. Mary's still with us, bless 'er.) Oh, so, the film. Grace's rich in-laws never approved of her profession, so she sent her son away to boarding school and now he's in a fancy college, not knowing his mom and telling everyone she's an opera singer. He's a creep and a cad and a schnook, so mom cuts him off, buys the local soda shop, turns it into a lavish Broadway show house, and hires Peter and Mary and Huntz and all their friends to put on a dance, comedy recital, and musical show to raise money for the school football team. Or something like that. It's pretty silly, but I liked this movie. I find Peter Lind Hayes to be rather dull and wooden (to say the least), and if you're reading this, Ms. Healy, I apologize to you. YOU I liked. The songs are okay, but Huntz sings throughout the film and that's a treat I never thought I'd experience, let me tell you. As these things go (these things being Sam Katzman musicals), this is one of the better ones. |
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| Frank Hale | Aug 10 2013, 03:19 PM Post #2 |
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Don’t know how or where you dug this one up, but more power to you. As I remember Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy had a daily radio show in NYC on WOR. It was the sort of show where the hosts exhibited no particular talent, but were friendly people with whom you didn’t mind spending some time, sort of like Mary Margaret McBride or Joe Franklin. A vanished kind of entertainment. |
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| JazzGuyy | Aug 11 2013, 07:59 AM Post #3 |
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I vaguely remember Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy from TV. They did have a TV show of no particular distinction, as I recall. It seems I also remember them appearing on a lot of panel quiz shows. I remember Hayes particularly as an affable but rather dull and seemingly somewhat dimwitted character. Mary was pretty but hardly memorable. Had no idea they ever appeared in films. Always assumed they were strictly radio/TV people. |
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