ANN SOTHERN - JUST A BIT OF HER HISTORY

In a role originally intended for Jean Harlow, MGM cast Sothern in the film Maisie (1939), as brassy Brooklyn burlesque dancer Mary Anastasia O'Connor who also goes by the stage name Maisie Ravier. In Mary C. McCall Jr.'s screenplay of Wilson Collison's novel, Maisie is stranded penniless in a small Wyoming town, takes a job as a ranch maid and becomes caught in a web of romantic entanglements. After years of struggling, Sothern had her first real success, and a string of "Maisie" comedy sequels followed, beginning with Congo Maisie'(1940), followed by Undercover Maisie (1947) in which Maisie infiltrates a gang of con men headed by a phony swami. A review of Swing Shift Maisie (1943) by Time magazine praised Sothern and described her as "one of the smartest comediennes in the business".

AGNES MOOREHEAD A GREAT ACTRESS

Agnes Moorehead - Although she appeared in more than 70 films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than 30 years, Moorehead is probably most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the television series Bewitched. While rarely playing leads in films, Moorehead's skill at character development and range earned her one Emmy Award and two Golden Globe awards in addition to four Academy Awards and six Emmy Award nominations. Moorehead's transition to television won acclaim for drama and comedy. She could play many different types, but often portrayed haughty, arrogant characters.

COLUMBIA PICTURES LOGO

Ever wonder who the woman is on the first Columbia Pictures loge, the one holding the tourch, well wonder no more.

Evelyn Venable was the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo.

HEPBURN & THE AFRICAN QUEEN

Here's a little tipbit of information. When out of the US never drink the water.

The African Queen was filmed mostly on location in Africa, where almost all the cast and crew suffered from malaria and dysentery—except director John Huston and Bogart, neither of whom ever drank any water. Hepburn, ever the urologist's daughter, disapproved of the two men's drinking and piously drank gallons of water each day to spite them. She wound up so sick with dysentery that, even months after she returned home, the famously vigorous actress was still ill.

DARK MOVIES

The wife and I just finished watching a movie. We have a subscription with NETFLIX. When you return a movie to them, you can log onto their website and rate the movie you just returned. Well, the plot was good, the acting was good, and everything else about the movie was good, except for one thing, there was so many dark scenes in it that we couldn't tell what we were looking at. It's not the first such movie we watched, loaded to many dark scenes. Well, even though it was good movie, we still gave it 2 out of 5 for the dark scenes. What makes dark scenes even worse, darn if they don't load up the same in some of the Wii games I play, real bummer.