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THE ATTIC

September 23, 1949

"The Attic” (aka “Trapped in the Attic”) is episode #55 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on September 23, 1949.

This was the fourth episode of the second season of MY FAVORITE HUSBAND. There were 43 new episodes, with the season ending on June 25, 1950.

Synopsis ~ One of George's old Glee Club friends is in town and George wants to find his old ukulele, so he and Liz search for it in the attic but get locked in.

“My Favorite Husband” was based on the novels Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage (1940) and Outside Eden (1945) by Isabel Scott Rorick, which had previously been adapted into the film Are Husbands Necessary? (1942). “My Favorite Husband” was first broadcast as a one-time special on July 5, 1948. Lucille Ball and Lee Bowman played the characters of Liz and George Cugat, and a positive response to this broadcast convinced CBS to launch “My Favorite Husband” as a series. Bowman was not available Richard Denning was cast as George. On January 7, 1949, confusion with bandleader Xavier Cugat prompted a name change to Cooper. On this same episode Jell-O became its sponsor. A total of 124 episodes of the program aired from July 23, 1948 through March 31, 1951. After about ten episodes had been written, writers Fox and Davenport departed and three new writers took over – Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh, and head writer/producer Jess Oppenheimer. In March 1949 Gale Gordon took over the existing role of George's boss, Rudolph Atterbury, and Bea Benaderet was added as his wife, Iris. CBS brought “My Favorite Husband” to television in 1953, starring Joan Caulfield and Barry Nelson as Liz and George Coope. The television version ran two-and-a-half seasons, from September 1953 through December 1955, running concurrently with “I Love Lucy.” It was produced live at CBS Television City for most of its run, until switching to film for a truncated third season filmed (ironically) at Desilu and recasting Liz Cooper with Vanessa Brown.

MAIN CAST

Lucille Ball (Liz Cooper) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. With Richard Denning, she starred in a radio program titled “My Favorite Husband” which eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon.

Richard Denning (George Cooper) was born Louis Albert Heindrich Denninger Jr., in Poughkeepsie, New York. When he was 18 months old, his family moved to Los Angeles. Plans called for him to take over his father's garment manufacturing business, but he developed an interest in acting. Denning enlisted in the US Navy during World War II. He is best known for his roles in various science fiction and horror films of the 1950s. Although he teamed with Lucille Ball on radio in “My Favorite Husband,” the two never acted together on screen. While “I Love Lucy” was on the air, he was seen on another CBS TV series, “Mr. & Mrs. North.” From 1968 to 1980 he played the Governor on “Hawaii 5-0″, his final role. He died in 1998 at age 84.

Ruth Perrott (Katie, the Maid) was also later seen on “I Love Lucy.” She first played Mrs. Pomerantz, a member of the surprise investigating committee for the Society Matrons League in “Pioneer Women” (ILL S1;E25), as one of the member of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League in “Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress” (ILL S3;E3), and also played a nurse when “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” (ILL S2;E16). She died in 1996 at the age of 96.

Bob LeMond (Announcer) also served as the announcer for the pilot episode of “I Love Lucy”. When the long-lost pilot was finally discovered in 1990, a few moments of the opening narration were damaged and lost, so LeMond – fifty years later – recreated the narration for the CBS special and subsequent DVD release.

Bea Benadaret (Iris Atterbury) and Gale Gordon (Rudolph Atterbury) do not appear in this episode.

GUEST CAST

Hans Conried (Mr. Benjamin Wood / Jimmy the Paper Boy) first co-starred with Lucille Ball in The Big Street (1942). He then appeared on “I Love Lucy” as used furniture man Dan Jenkins in “Redecorating” (ILL S2;E8) and later that same season as Percy Livermore in “Lucy Hires an English Tutor” (ILL S2;E13) – both in 1952. The following year he began an association with Disney by voicing Captain Hook in Peter Pan. On “The Lucy Show” he played Professor Gitterman in “Lucy’s Barbershop Quartet” (TLS S1;E19) and in “Lucy Plays Cleopatra” (TLS S2;E1). He was probably best known as Uncle Tonoose on “Make Room for Daddy” starring Danny Thomas, which was filmed on the Desilu lot. He joined Thomas on a season 6 episode of “Here’s Lucy” in 1973. He died in 1982 at age 64.

The character’s first name is not mentioned here, but it is in other episodes where Conried plays Mr. Wood.

THE EPISODE

ANNOUNCER: “Even in the happiest of marriages both the husband and wife have little habits that prove annoying over the years. With the Coopers it’s George’s habit of reading the newspaper at the breakfast table. Well, unable to break him of this habit Liz is setting up a counter irritant. As we look in on them now she has just started a barrage of toast munching… It’s a war of nerves!”

The episode opens at breakfast, where Liz is upset that George has buried himself in the morning newspaper instead of paying attention to her.

This was a common complaint on early episodes of “I Love Lucy” as well. Ricky often didn’t lift his eyes from behind the newspaper.

LIZ: “I’ll speak to Katie and asks her to buy quieter bread. Or, I could puree the bread and eat it with a spoon.”

The phone rings. It is George’s old friend Charlie Nichols. Charlie is a Bullfrog, a member of their college Glee Club. Liz translates the slangy conversation between the old friends for Katie. George riffs a few notes of “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby” into the phone with Charlie.

"Yes Sir, That’s My Baby” is a popular song from 1925 written by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson. A week before this episode aired, it was also the title of a Universal motion picture starring Donald O’Connor and Gloria DeHaven. In 1980 the film was referenced in “Lucy Moves To NBC” which featured O’Connor and DeHaven in a show-within-a-show sitcom called “The Music Mart”.

Liz anticipates that George will want to find his old ukulele for his reunion with Charlie. Naturally, she’s right and naturally Liz has no idea where it is! George reminds her of the time she disposed of all his old clothes, a hint at a future episode titled “Husbands Are Sloppy Dressers” (E95) which would become “Changing The Boys’ Wardrobe” on “I Love Lucy”.

GEORGE: “A man’s old clothes are filled with sentiment.” LIZ: “That’s sediment, not sentiment!”

On “I Love Lucy” saxophone wasn’t the only instrument she was able to play. Lucy first plays the ukulele in “Ricky Loses His Voice” (ILL S2;E9), “Little Ricky Gets Stage Fright” (ILL S6;E4), and again in “Don Juan Is Shelved” (ILL S4;E22). Lucy Carmichael strummed the uke in “Lucy’s College Reunion” (TLS S2;E11). Fast forward to 1972 and Lucy and Kim Carter play the ukulele in “Lucy Goes Hawaiian: Part 2″ (HL S3;E24).

Liz denies having thrown away George’s prized ukulele. Liz asks George the last time he saw it and he says it was “just the other night at the alumni dinner” - in 1938! Liz says it’s probably in the attic, and off they go to look for it.

On “I Love Lucy,” Lucy Ricardo visited the attic to find a musical instrument, too - “The Saxophone” (ILL S2;E2). Of course, she finds other memories along the way. This was the series’ only visit to the attic of 623 East 68th Street.

In the attic, George thinks he sees a prowler - but it is just Liz’s old dress dummy!

Lucy Carter and her kids visits the attic for antiques and get a lesson in family history lesson in “Lucy Takes Over” (HL S2;E23). When first entering the darkened attic, Lucy screams when she runs into the dress dummy, just like George!

The box marked ‘ukulele’ is actually filled with ski boots! Liz’s labeling system has resorted in confusion about what’s inside each box.

This warped logic foreshadows Lucy Carmichael and Lucy Carter’s crazy filing system on “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy.” It never failed to confound Mr. Mooney / Harry (Gale Gordon).

Liz finds her corsage collection - dried flowers of corsages given to her by high school boys. George finds his old electric train. Liz wants to throw out the trains, while George wants to toss the corsages.

"Lucy Goes To Sun Valley” (LDCH S1;E5) opens with Lucy searching the living room closet for Ricky’s guitar strings. While doing so, she runs across a pressed corsage of violets that Ricky gave to her during their courtship.

Hours later, Liz and George still haven’t thrown away anything and still haven’t found the ukulele. They agree to try again after lunch - but the attic door is locked. George calls for Katie - but she’s gone downtown to take George’s Glee Club sweater to the cleaners and is then off for the afternoon.

From the attic window, Liz yells to neighbor Mr. Wood (Hans Conried) but he is working on his motorcycle and can’t hear them. Jimmy the Paper Boy (also Conried) thinks they want their newspaper tossed through the attic window. It hits George square in the face.

George decides to ram the door with his shoulder like they do in the movies, but to no avail.

GEORGE: “They must use fake doors in pictures.” LIZ: “Maybe they use real men!”

George has landed on his ukulele, which emerges unharmed. He strums and sings a few more bars of “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby” - much to Liz’s chagrin.

More time passes and they are still locked in the attic. Liz notices the calendar on the attic wall says March.

LIZ: “I wonder if it’s been a tough winter?”

Liz starts to cry, but George wants her to laugh it off and think of it as an exciting adventure. Hunger starts to set in. Liz finds a piece of their ten year-old wedding cake. Petrified!. She spies a piece of cheese in a mousetrap!

It is here the episode starts to foreshadow “Lucy in the Swiss Alps” (ILL S5;E21) in which the Ricardos and Mertz’s are trapped in an Alpine cabin due to an avalanche, where hunger is also an issue.

Panic sets in - Liz is stir crazy and wants George to jump out of the window to get help. George gets the idea to make a rope ladder out of old drapes and lower Liz to the ground.

The idea of escaping a high confinement by knotting sheets (or blankets or curtains) together to form a rope ladder is a familiar trope. It was later used in “The Star Upstairs” (ILL S4;E25) when Lucy Ricardo finds herself trapped in Cornel Wilde’s upstairs suite and chooses this method of escape.

LIZ: “Just a moment. Who’s lowering whom?” GEORGE: “I’m lowering you’m!” LIZ: “Over my’m dead body you’m are!”

This exchange is very similar to “Vacation from Marriage” (ILL S2;E6) which finds Lucy and Ethel trapped on the roof when the door locks behind them. Lucy gets the idea to put a plank across the alleyway (five flights up) to the neighboring building, but naturally she wants Ethel to go first! Ethel is reluctant to be the one to go first!

Practically speaking, Liz is not strong enough to hold George’s weight, so she has to be the one to be lowered. As Liz climbs onto the window ledge, Mr. Wood sees her and thinks she’s going to kill herself! He rushes into the attic to save her.

MR. WOOD: “You have so much to live for. You’re young! You’re beautiful! You’re vibrant! Think of your husband! Think of the children!” LIZ: “I don’t have any children.” MR. WOOD: “Well I have eleven children, you can have a couple of mine.”

Liz explains that she wasn’t suicidal but that they were locked in the attic. She demonstrates by shutting the door - accidentally locking them in again! Katie arrive just in time and admits that she’s been home the whole time - asleep on her good ear! Just as they are about to leave - the wind slams the door shut. Katie calmly announces that the firemen will let them out when they arrive after the explosion.

LIZ: “What explosion?” KATIE: “I left the pressure cooker on the stove!”

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Hollywood’s Notable Deaths of 2017 (Photographs)

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Hollywood’s Notable Deaths of 2017 (Photographs)

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Charles Manson Charles Manson, the con man, cult chief and legal who led the Manson Household murders within the ’60s, died on Nov. 19. He was 83.

Jana Novotna Jana Novotna, a Czech tennis champion who gained Wimbledon in 1998, died after a battle with most cancers on Nov. 19. She was 49.

Della Reese Della Reese, a jazz and pop singer who additionally starred on “Touched by an Angel,” died on Nov. 19. She was 86.

Peter Baldwin Peter Baldwin, an Emmy-winning director of “The Surprise Years,” “The Brady Bunch” and “Sanford and Son,” died on Nov. 19. He was 86.

David Cassidy David Cassidy, the star of “The Partridge Household” and a teen heartthrob from the ’70s, died on Nov. 21 after being positioned right into a medically-induced coma. He was 67.

Tommy Keene Tommy Keene, an influence pop singer-songwriter fashionable within the ’80s, died on Nov. 22 on the age of 59.

Rance Howard Rance Howard, an actor who appeared in 15 movies directed by his son Ron Howard, died on Nov. 26. He was 89.

Ken Shapiro Ken Shapiro, a author and director of Chevy Chase’s debut movie from 1974 “The Groove Tube,” died of most cancers on Nov. 27. He was 76.

Jim Nabors Jim Nabors, who performed Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Present” and on “Gomer Pyle: USMC,” died on Nov. 30. He was 87.

Heather North Heather North, an actress finest recognized for voicing Daphne on the animated collection “Scooby-Doo,” diec November 30 at age 71.

Charlie Inexperienced Jr. YouTube star Charlie Inexperienced Jr., higher referred to as Indignant Grandpa, died on Dec. 10 after a battle with pores and skin most cancers. He was 67.

Bruce Brown Bruce Brown, director of the browsing documentary from 1966 “Countless Summer season,” died of pure causes on Dec. 10. He was 80.

Pat DiNizio Pat DiNizio, lead singer and songwriter of the New Jersey rock band The Smithereens, died on Dec. 12. He was 62.

Bob Givens Bob Givens, a veteran animator who helped design such basic characters as Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, died Dec. 14 at age 99.

Kim Jong-hyun Kim Jong-hyun, also called Jonghyun as a part of the Ok-pop group SHINee, died on Dec. 18 on the age of 27. His loss of life is being investigated as a potential suicide.

Jordan Feldstein Jordan Feldstein, the supervisor of Maroon 5 and different music stars, died Dec. 23 of an obvious coronary heart assault at age 40. He was additionally the older brother of actors Jonah Hill and Beanie Feldstein.

William W. Graham William W. Graham, a scion of the enduring Washington Submit publishers Phil and Katharine Graham, died at age 69 on account of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Information of the suicide was first reported by the Submit in an official obituary on Dec. 24.

Heather Menzies-Urich Heather Menzies-Urich, the actress finest recognized for taking part in the second-oldest Von Trapp daughter Louisa within the Oscar-winning musical movie “The Sound of Music,” died Dec. 24 at age 68.

Kent Damon Kent Damon, father to actor Matt Damon, died of most cancers on Dec. 23. He was 74.

Alfie Curtis Alfie Curtis, an actor recognized for showing within the authentic “Star Wars” and the 1980 movie “The Elephant Man,” died on Dec. 26. His reason for loss of life shouldn’t be but recognized. He was 87.

Amanda Davis Veteran Atlanta morning information anchor of CBS46 Amanda Davis died of a stroke on Dec. 27. She was 62.

Rose Marie Rose Marie, an actress recognized for her roles in “The Dick Van Dyke Present” and “The Doris Day Present,” in addition to in appearances on “Hollywood Squares,” died on Dec. 28. She was 94.

Sue Grafton Sue Grafton, the thriller novelist finest recognized for an alphabet-titled collection of novels starting with “A Is for Alibi,” died in her Santa Barbara house at age 77.

Daniel Talbot Daniel Talbot, the indie movie icon whose New Yorker Movies dealt with the U.S. launch of classics from Bertolucci, Godard, Louis Malle and Errol Morris, died on December 29. He was in his early 90s.

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February History

February 4 World Cancer Day

1703 - In Edo (Japan), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin committed seppuku (ritual suicide) for avenging their master's death.

1783 - Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its American colonies, the United States.

1789 - George Washington was elected as the first president of the United States by the Electoral College.

1801 - John Marshall was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.

1825 - The Ohio Legislature authorized the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal

1826 - The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper was published

1922 - Ford Motor Company acquired the failing luxury automaker Lincoln Motor Company for $8 million.

1932 - The Winter Olympics were held in the United States at Lake Placid, NY.

1935 - Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch premiered on CBS radio.

1936 - Radium (Ra) became the first radioactive element to be synthetically made.

1938 - Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs was released by Walt Disney.

1941 - Roy Plunkett received the patent (#2,230,654) for Tetrafluoroethylene Polymers' (Teflon)

1941 - The USO (United Services Organization) was founded.

1957 - Smith-Corona began selling portable electric typewriters.

1961 - The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, was released by United Artists

1965 (Earthquake) Rat Islands, Alaska

1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army abducted 19 year-old Patty Hearst

1979 (Earthquake) Riobamba, Ecuador

1983 - Singer Karen Carpenter died of anorexia.

1985 - President Ronald Reagan's defense budget called for a tripling of the expenditure on the "Star Wars" research program.

1991 - Pete Rose (aka Charlie Hustle) was banned 'for life' from the Baseball Hall of Fame due to the fact that he used to illegally gamble on games.

1992 - A coup d'état was led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

1997 - A civil jury in California found O.J. Simpson liable in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Goldman's parents were awarded $8.5 million in compensatory damages.

2004 - Facebook launched as "TheFacebook.com"

#today's smile #history #February

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empathwayhealing · 4 years

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Creator of CB Pet Salve for your #pets the #mosquito are starting to make their way back. I created a #salve that will help deter mosquitoes, itchy #paws #dryskin #bugbites etc. Coming to #etsy 🐶🐕🐈🐎🐂 CB aka my doggie Charlie Brown inspired me to make #CBSalve #AlyxsaShuray @empathicmodalities https://www.instagram.com/p/B_0R2exJ1Pl/?igshid=xisk1pfrfbm0

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Liquid World

If you have not heard of them yet, Coca-Cola is a leading carbonated soft drink company. Essentially they are the Disney of sodas, controlling many companies under the Coca-Cola name and partnering with many companies worldwide. In the video linked below, the company breaks down what they call their 2020 Initiative which is broken down into nine chapters (ten including the summary). The initiative came about in 2009 and is the set goals Coca-Cola (as a company) hopes to accomplish by the year 2020.

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One take away from the video that can be surprising to some viewers is how Coke is not focusing on sales. Instead they are trying to connect to their customers by producing “ideas so contagious they cannot be controlled.” They refer to this as liquid content excellence. When ideas match to what they are trying to accomplish as a brand (aka their goals) it is linked content. They go on to explain why they decided to change their approach, citing three key drivers. The first is to double the size of their business. Secondly they observed a distribution of creativity and thirdly they want to improve the distribution of technology. They hope to spark conversation 356 days a year with liquid and linked ideas for them to act and react to.

An interesting part of the video comes when they are explaining the need to transition “from one way storytelling to dynamic storytelling.” I for one think Coke has always mastered storytelling and they even mention this in the video. Below is an example of a 2008 advertisement.

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The ad came out before they came out with the 2020 initiative. Ignoring the bad quality of the video, notice how the story of the ad is clear throughout the clip. To capture the audience’s attention until the very end to see who gets the coke bottle first. The clip is also a perfect example of partnering with other brands, in this case Fox (Family Guy), NBC (Underdog), and CBS (Charlie Brown). The story they are telling is the consumers is that Coca-Cola is so good that even parade balloon fight over the last soda bottle. Ironically Charlie Browns jumps in and gets the soda, which I see as him finally getting the football. Comparing this ad to a more recent one (below) one can see how they have not changed much in their storytelling approach. Except now they cause conversation with their bottles by including names printed next to the logo. By doing this they are stirring up conversation and interaction, not only with their ad but with the physical bottles. For example when an individual is out at the store they might not want to purchase a bottle but notice the bottle reads Sam when in reality their name is Alex. But they have a friend named Sam, so they will either be intrigued to purchase the drink for them or send them a photograph of it through Snapchat. By doing this they can spark a conversation all thanks to the carbonated drink.

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A company that can benefit from this 2020 approach is In-N-Out, however I am not implying that their current strategies are not working. But with the 2020 initiative In-N-Out, or any food chain, one can see improvement with the relationship with their customers. In-N-Out is a family owned business , but this can catch some by surprise due to them not producing many advertisements . They do have a catchy jingle, I’ll give them that. Other than that they rely on word of mouth and the west coast culture to boost their sales and relationship to the consumer. They should use the family business background to connect to their customers on a emotional level.

In summary, some key points of the 2020 initiative are the five key capability areas of storytelling. Numbers one through five are; serial storytelling, multi-faceted storytelling, spreadable storytelling, immersion & discovery storytelling, and engagement through storytelling. These five points will help transition from one way storytelling to dynamic storytelling, which is the goal. With storytelling it is important to “remember that story telling is at the heart of all families, communities and cultures.” Most importantly what the video wants the viewer to take away is understanding the importance of liquid ideas. These ideas are what provoke conversation, along with linked ideas. And well linked ideas are the connections to your business objectives, brand(s), and consumer interest. Merging these two ideas will help transition from creative excellence to content excellence.

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Jonathan Demme obituary

US film director whose 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs won five Oscars

Jonathan Demme, who has died aged 73 from complications from cancer, rose from his colourful if tawdry beginnings under the aegis of the exploitation maestro Roger Corman to become one of the most eclectic, delightful and original film-makers in Hollywood. He also happened to be one of the nicest: the compassionate sensibility that lent his work its warmth and musicality was no put-on. Plainly put, he loved people.

Even his darkest work, such as the hit thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991), which gave him his first taste of box-office success nearly two decades into his career and also brought him a best director Oscar, had a beguiling tenderness about it. For all that films gruesome frights, it was the connection between the FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and her macabre mentor, the serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), that lent the film its emotional bite.

His movies could be bewilderingly diverse he made the innovative concert film Stop Making Sense (1984), the uproarious screwball thriller Something Wild (1986), the Aids drama Philadelphia (1993) and a remake of The Manchurian Candidate (2004) but they were united by their colour and vim, as well as a deep-seated sense of conscientiousness and community. Demme cared deeply about what he put on the screen.

Thats one of the joyful aspects of the work and I also feel its part of my responsibility as a film-maker, he said in 2004. You have to remember that the behaviour you visualise on screen will be witnessed by thousands or millions of people, and will ultimately say something about us as a species. Thats why it gets harder for me to have pure villains in my films. When people tell me, Oh, Meryl Streeps great in The Manchurian Candidate, I hated her so much! well, I dont wanna hear the hated part, because I see her as a fully fledged, emotional person.

Crucially, he never lost touch with his B-movie roots. He always remembered Cormans advice to keep the viewers eye stimulated; as a mark of affection, he gave Corman cameo roles in most of his films.

Tom Hanks, left, and Denzel Washington in Philadelphia, 1993, directed by Jonathan Demme. Photograph: Allstar/Tristar Pictures

He was born in Baldwin, Long Island, the son of Robert Demme, who worked in PR, and his wife, Dorothy (nee Rogers). Jonathan was educated at the University of Florida, where he became a film critic on the college newspaper and came to the attention of the producer Joseph E Levine, who was so impressed (not least by Demmes positive review of Zulu, which Levine had produced) that he hired him as a publicity writer.

Demme met Corman while working in London on publicity for the latters war film Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), and was soon recruited into the stable of writer-directors that had already spawned Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich. He shot one scene of the sex film Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman (aka Naughty Wives) (1973) and wrote assorted scripts for Corman, such as Angels Hard As They Come (1971) and The Hot Box (1972), before making his directing debut with the women-in-prison thriller Caged Heat (1974) and the lighthearted gangster movie Crazy Mama (1975). In both instances, he insisted that the criminals should survive; Crazy Mama even ends with the outlaws cheerfully running a hot-dog stand. They escaped! Youve got no ending! cried an outraged Corman.

After his last outright exploitation picture, the revenge thriller Fighting Mad (1976), Demme made his major studio debut with Citizens Band, aka Handle With Care (1977), intended by Paramount to cash in on the CB radio boom but shaped by Demme into a sweet-natured comic roundelay. The agent turned producer Freddie Fields interfered in the production and even sacked Demme at one point, until Roman Polanski, who had heard about the incident through a mutual friend, demanded his reinstatement. Glowing reviews (Pauline Kael likened Demme to Renoir) did not translate into ticket sales and the film was a flop, as was Last Embrace (1979), his witty homage to Vertigo. There was praise, too, for Melvin and Howard (1980), which dramatised the true story of an unassuming milkman who helps an old man stranded in the desert one night after a motorcycle accident; only later does he discover that he came to the rescue of Howard Hughes and that he has been made a beneficiary in his will. Demmes intimate, easygoing humour, and his affectionate work with his cast (including Mary Steenburgen, who won an Oscar) brought purpose and definition to this featherweight tale.

He had another bruising encounter with Hollywood on Swing Shift (1984), a wartime comedy-drama which was re-edited by its star Goldie Hawn, who was also the producer. But Stop Making Sense was a triumph a fully cinematic visual record of a Talking Heads performance, with the band and the show assembling gradually, song by song, beginning with just the singer David Byrne on stage with a guitar and a tape-recorder and ending with a full battalion of musicians, dancers, backing singers, props and costumes (including, famously, Byrnes boxy, over-sized suit).

Something Wild threw together an uptight businessman (Jeff Daniels) and an unpredictable kook (Melanie Griffith) in an on-the-lam adventure steeped in colour, eccentricity and music; Demme negotiated masterfully the switch halfway through from comedy to suspense.

In Swimming to Cambodia (1987), he brought to a one-man show by the actor and raconteur Spalding Gray some of the same minimalist magic of Stop Making Sense and delivered another quirky marriage of crime and comedy in Married to the Mob (1988), starring Michelle Pfeiffer as a mafia widow. However, the audiences were not won over. I wondered if I was missing some commercial gene, he said. Or if I had a curse.

Demme claimed to be as surprised as anyone about the success of The Silence of the Lambs. I had just done what I always did. Only this time it worked. That was an understatement. The film was only the third in history to win all five major Oscars; it made more than $240m worldwide and its influence was strongly felt on the thriller genre, though it was to Demmes credit that he opted not to direct the sensationalist sequel (Hannibal) and prequel (Red Dragon). Philadelphia, about the efforts of a lawyer (Tom Hanks) to sue the practice which dismissed him after discovering that he was dying from Aids, could hardly have been more different. It was credited with encouraging a better understanding of HIV/Aids.

We got together and tried to come up with a movie that would help push for a cure and save lives, Demme said. We didnt want to make a film that would appeal to an audience of people like us, who already had a predisposition for caring about people with Aids. We wanted to reach the people who couldnt care less about people with Aids. That was our target audience.

He later conceded that the success of those two films changed the course of his career, and not exclusively for the good. There is some seductive upward spiral, which I might have got sucked into, where once you have success, you get to make even more expensive films, you get paid more and your work seems even more important and major. His adaptation of Toni Morrisons novel Beloved (1998), though intensely powerful and boasting a spectacular performance by Thandie Newton, did not continue his box-office success, while The Truth About Charlie (2002) was an insipid remake of the much-loved caper Charade.

He rediscovered his earlier vitality with Rachel Getting Married (2008), a fizzy family drama which drew on memories of his mothers alcoholism and starred Anne Hathaway as a woman leaving rehab to attend her sisters wedding. Shot with hand-held cameras (camcorders were even placed in the hands of the extras playing wedding guests, and their footage spliced into the movie) and peppered with impromptu musical turns, it fulfilled Demmes ambition to create the most beautiful home movie ever made. Less well-received, but brimming with bonhomie, was Ricki and the Flash (2015), with Meryl Streep as a rock singer re-connecting with the daughter she abandoned.

Aside from his fiction work, Demme was an accomplished documentary maker whose subjects ranged from family (his cousin, an Episcopalian minister, in the 1992 Cousin Bobby) to musicians (Robyn Hitchcock, Neil Young, Justin Timberlake) and politicians (Jimmy Carter in the 2007 Man from Plains).

In 2008, I asked him whether he had anything to add to the formula he had outlined in 1986 for making a decent movie You get a good script, good actors and try not to screw it up. He let out a joyful laugh and gave an exaggerated slap of the thigh: Thats the formula, baby.

He is survived by his second wife, Joanne Howard, and three children, Ramona, Brooklyn and Jos.

Robert Jonathan Demme, film director, born 22 February 1944; died 26 April 2017