January 23 movie: The Devil and Miss Jones. Was there a porno movie with this title? Because the title seriously makes me think "porn." And I'm not exactly a porn aficionado (hey! no remarks!) so it would have to be a pretty famous movie for me to know the title. The intro by that stupid Mankiewicz guy didn't say anything about it. Can I just say that I hate that guy. Why did TCM bring him in on weekends? What was wrong with Robert Osborne? Osborne sounds like he's actually seen the movies, knows who the actors are, and might conceivably have come up with his remarks himself. I'm sure they're both reading from a script but only Mankiewicz sounds like it. Who decided that being the grandson of somebody important makes him a good choice to host movies on TV?
Okay, enough ranting. The Devil and Miss Jones. Was a comedy with a social message, but not too serious, light and very funny, and had nothing whatever to do with porn. The Devil is Charles Coburn, a billionaire businessman who goes undercover as a lowly clerk in one of his holdings, a department store which is reportedly going union. Miss Jones is Jean Arthur, a salesgirl in the shoe department who takes Coburn under her wing and teaches him about life and kindness to your fellow man and blah blah.
The movie has a fairly leftist message: the union organizers are brave and noble champions of the downtrodden, while the store management, the bigshot lawyers, and Coburn (before his epiphany) are greedy, petty, nasty people. So it surprised me to learn that the director, Sam Wood, later provided key testimony to HUAC. But then again those were the days of the studio system so maybe he didn't have a choice about doing this movie.
The Porn Title is "The Devil in Miss Jones"
Not that I hae watched too many porn movies myself- but I think the porn movie was called "The Devil in Miss Jones".
Oh- just saw that was already covered....
Ok then, there was a song called "Me and Mrs. Jones" that probably inspired many a couple's attempt at porn?