November 20 movie: The Lady Eve. Am I lame for watching the same movie two days in a row? If it's a movie as good as this, then I don't think so. I love the scene at the beginning where all the ladies in the dining room are trying in vain to attract Henry Ford's attention, while Barbara Stanwyck watches in a hand mirror and does a hilarious play-by-play. Last time I mentioned Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette and Eric Blore, but I forgot William Demerest. He plays Ford's crochety but devoted bodyguard. That idiot Peter Bogdonovich introduced the movie and said that Demerest was one of Preston Sturges' favorite actors, and appeared in all Sturges' movies. But I don't remember him in The Palm Beach Story. Oh! I just looked it up and he was in that, as a member of the Ale and Quail Club. Bang bang!
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