Sunday 12 December 2021

Christmas in July (1940 Preston Sturges & scr)

He hadn't quite got into his golden period yet (which began the next year with The Lady Eve), though his usual stock company populate the film in both credited and uncredited roles. It's short, and features Dick Powell, rather bizarrely (but then I suppose I associate him more with Farewell My Lovely than the musicals he started out in). And Ellen Drew, whoever she is.

And remember - 'If you can't sleep at night, it isn't the coffee - it's the bunk!'

Q reckons The Million Pound Note may have come from here. (She'd be wrong though as it was Mark Twain.)

Loved the line "I've known this boy since his momma and pappa weren't even married yet".


Raymond Walburn, Franklin Pangborn


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