November 20 movie: The Young In Heart. This movie had no connection to the Doris Day movie Young At Heart. This was an earlier movie, a charming comedy about a family of con artists and the old lady they move in on, who eventually reforms them. It lacked the edge of The Lady Eve but I enjoyed it immensely. Starred Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, and Roland Young and Billie Burke the year after Topper.
The weirdest thing about the movie was the appearance of "The Flying Wombat," a car company with whom Roland Young takes a job as a salesman. An old friend of mine is mysteriously associated with the wombat. When they first mention the Flying Wombat (I think the line was "Be at the Wombat offices at 9 am tomorrow") I was like, "did he just say wombat?" And when they showed the Wombat business card I literally jumped out of my seat to hit the record button. Images of the Wombat logo/storefront only show up a couple of times, but there is a lot of hilarious dialogue like "As soon as we get around this bend, I'll show you what a Wombat can really do!" and "He'll never give up his beloved Wombat." Hilarious, that is, if you know a wombat.
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