“The Bob Cummings Show,” known in reruns as “Love That Bob,” premiered on January 2, 1955. #OnThisDay Pictured are Cummings and co-star Ann B. Davis
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Deanna Durbin in It Started with Eve (1941) dir. Henry Koster
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The Many Shows of Dwayne Hickman
Last year, Dwayne Hickman (1934-2022) made the symbolic gesture of dying on Bob Denver’s birthday. This will mean nothing to all but the elderly. I’m only aware of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959-63), the sit-com on which the men starred, because I’ve got older brothers. Hickman was known by most people primarily from Dobie Gillis. I initially knew him from the AIP films he appeared in…
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Vintage TV: The Bob Cummings Show, on CBS, 1955-1959.
From left:
Ann B. Davis as Charmaine "Shultzy" Schulz
Bob Cummings as Bob Collins
Dwayne Hickman as Chuck MacDonald
Rosemary DeCamp as Margaret MacDonald
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Saboteur
Alfred Hitchcock’s SABOTEUR (1942, Criterion Channel, TCM) is the bridge between his British wrong man on the run films, THE 39 STEPS (1935) and YOUNG AND INNOCENT (1937), and his ultimate chase film, NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). It’s usually dismissed as less than the other films, but it has some wonderful moments and surprising bits of subversion. A young war plant worker (Robert Cummings) is framed for an act of sabotage that kills his best friend. On the run, he kidnaps a young model (Priscilla Lane) who’s trying to turn him in before she falls in love, because who doesn’t dream of being thrown around by a man in handcuffs. The hunt for the real saboteur (Norman Lloyd, whose physicality threatens to steal the film) leads them to New York and the famous finale atop the Statue of Liberty. The spy ring out to hand the U.S. to the Axis is headed by normal, respectable people — a wealthy rancher (Otto Kruger), a society matron (Alma Kruger) and a man (Alan Baxter) who speaks fondly of his two children. And the most human people Cummings meets are sideshow attractions (including the wonderful Anita Sharp-Bolster as the bearded lady) who take them in for the night. There’s some ableism in that scene and the depiction of Lane’s blind uncle, and the film’s middle sags a bit. That big final scene can make you impatient with what comes before. But Hitchcock’s editing is as good as ever, and though Cummings has trouble with the bigger emotional scenes, he and Lane have a youthful appeal. They come off as stand-ins for the American spirit, played in contrast to Otto Kruger’s suave villainy. When he speaks of replacing democracy with a totalitarian government more friendly to wealthy interests, it’s like an evening of the Kochs’ or Elon Musk’s greatest hits.
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2022: Al Strobel, Albert Michael Strobel, attore statunitense. È principalmente noto per il ruolo di MIKE/Philip Michael Gerard “L’uomo con un braccio solo” nella serie televisiva I segreti di Twin Peaks (1990-1991). A causa di un incidente automobilistico che subì da adolescente, gli fu amputato il braccio sinistro. (n.1939)
2021: Antony Sher, attore e scrittore sudafricano naturalizzato…
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Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings in Saboteur (1942) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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Vintage Magazine - True Story (Aug1956)
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