Episode 37 - Director Frank Tashlin's THE PRIVATE NAVY OF SGT. O'FARRELL w/guest Michael Schlesinger.
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Tha SC nks for another fun and informative episode. I didn’t recognize the name Frank Tashlin but I’ve definitely encountered his work. Looney Tunes was a Saturday Morneand after school staple so I know I’ve seen his animated works dozens of times. His live action comedies were often featured on weekend afternoon movie slots in Boston on TV56. I never really got Jerry Lewis either. I remember watching some of his movies as a kid and thinking that maybe I needed to be older to find them funny. When I did get older I understood the humor better but found it more amusing than actually funny. Oh well, art is subjective.
Fade Out is a great show, it not only celebrates the gindd as l films of Hollywood’s finest, but helps spotlight the underrated and overlooked filmmakers
Your discussion of Bob Hope’s career reminds me to recommend the PBS American Masters documentary on the legendary comedian. It’s quite interesting. I actually met Hope at a book signing in 1983. We got a photo with him as he was autographing his golf book “Confessions of a Hooker.”
I enjoyed learning more on Tashlin’s career!
I’d expected Artists and Models with its Wertham-panic topicality would have given you another twenty minutes before getting to The Private Navy. It’s certainly the furthest he’s stretched in using Jerry Lewis as a cartoon character!
I’ve read stories with people stuffing newspaper in their clothes in cold whether; there’s a scene in The Lemon Drop Kid where Hope demonstrates (and really sells) that it’s to keep the wind from cutting through his cloth suitcoat.
Jayne Mansfield has never been a selling point for me, but I’ll keep an eye open for The Girl Can’t Help It.