The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (202)

(Sorry for the unfortunate delay in posting this morning)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a 1947 Noveltoons cartoon, Santa's Surprise (featuring featuring the first appearance of Little Audrey), released by Paramount.




I don't know how this go past the censors but look for it: The little Hawaiian girl is topless throughout the cartoon!


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to finish out Dave Grohl's Hanukkah offering with his final song of his set



It should be mandatory that we listen to Uncle Lou during the Hanukkah season.


We hope you are doing well with your self quarantines - the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been vigorously scrubbing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and sanitizing themselves for your protection. We are also engaged in social distancing - we are communicating with each other via 11th Century Viking Secret Message and EasyJet Flight Attendant Signals.

Christmas will be shortly here. ACME wants you to join them in celebrating the holidays with your friends at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour - the official soap of our nation's bald eagles. Remember if your bald eagle's talons are filthy, do we have a soap for you! We're sure you're busy with all of your holiday plans. Take a break - why not put The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour on in the background and watch this double feature of holiday classics: the 1945 Barbara Stanwyck comedy Christmas In Connecticut and the 1954 Bing Crosby musical film, White Christmas. So let's watch our first feature, Christmas in Connecticut -



This was one of the first films to benefit from the "post-war euphoria" that gripped America in 1945. Despite being released in August (rather than a more logical holiday-time release) this grossed a then impressive $3 million, making it one of the year's most successful movies.


I'm guess we could all use a break, right about now. As you run into the kitchen and get a beverage refill or run into the bathroom and replenish the eco-system, we here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want to watch the forgotten 1959 Joy Batchelor, John Halas holiday cartoon, The Christmas Visitor -



I'm guessing because this is a European cartoon that they seem to have left Santa a donut, a hard boiled egg, a cigar and a bottle of wine.


Welcome back my friends. Our second feature tonight is the 1954 Vistavision musical fantasy by Michael Curtiz, starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen, White Christmas. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching our second holiday feature this evening, White Christmas.



Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye's Sisters performance was not originally in the script. They were clowning around on the set, and director Michael Curtiz thought it was so funny that he decided to film it. In the scene, Crosby's laughs are genuine and unscripted, as he was unable to hold a straight face due to Kaye's comedic dancing. Apparently, the producers had a better take where Crosby didn't laugh, but when they ran them both, people liked the laughing version better.



Demand Euphoria!