I don't really like doing topical commentary; it doesn't age as well as the artier stuff, and people have opinions. So I never included this in anything. It might have been posted here at one time. Anyway, it is now.
PS- I guess this means we're going to do weekly audio, instead of skipping a weekend a month for written content. Which will drop in during the week, as it occurs. Stay tuned.
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| The Last Hurrah (1958) |
It's on the right, under Spencer Tracy's hand. Other examples of this phenomenon can be found on our Building Code Under Fire page.
I discussed Mr Regan in an earlier post; he's one of those actors who never speaks and is supposed to be completely in the background, a cut-and-paste character in a way, like the little people in architectural drawings. He was a casting director who found his way into a lot of "bystander" work, and is pretty recognizable once you know him. (On the right.)
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Mr Lucky was a crime/mystery TV program that ran for one season. These two meatballs emerge and saunter through a scene, tailing a principal- and that's it for them, they're not even characters. They're just "the Boys".
1959 seems pretty early for him. The thing about actors like this, playing parts just above the horizon of obscurity, there's very little info. Which makes them more interesting.
People of Earth, attention....
The complete 3-part anthology (including these excerpts) can be found on our podcasts page.
It's from a Dick Van Dyke episode, "Sol and the Sponsor", and although Isabel did play Rob's mom in the series, she isn't here.
