The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (147)

Thank you for joining us today.

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1948 A Feather in His Hare, directed by Chuck Jones.



This was Jones' first Bugs Bunny cartoon to feature the modern design of Bugs instead of the one he used from Super-Rabbit to Hair-Raising Hare. The Indian's body shape, along with the glasses he wears, suggest that he is meant to be a parody of Ed Wynn, although the voice does not match.


You would be forgiven if at the end of this week, you mind feels like it's been through the mill (yet again). The programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour feels your pain. The various revelations coming from the Impeachment hurts everyone brain. The staff has been celebrating National Zinfandel Day and Beaujolais Nouveau Day early (the official dates are November 20 and 21 respectively, this year.) From somewhere deep within their alcoholic stupor, they decided, why not celebrate by watching two of the best romantic comedies from the 30s - the 1932 Ernst Lubitsch pre-code classic Trouble In Paradise, and the 1938 pairing of Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, Holiday. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some popcorn,) and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching our first feature, the racy (for it's time) Trouble in Paradise.



This movie was popular both with critics and with audiences, but was made before the enforcement of the production code. After 1935, it was withdrawn from circulation and was not seen again, except at museums and archival institutions until it was sold to MCA and released for television in 1958.


I'm guess we could all use a break, right about know. 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 1943 Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and (in a brief cameo) Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin, Porky Pig's Feat. ( This is the only appearance of Bugs Bunny in a black-and-white cartoon.)



The first -- outrageously padded -- bill presented by the hotel manager has been added up incorrectly: the items seen on it actually total, not $152.50, but $172.50. In effect, their 20-dollar "Bath with hot and dirty running water" was free.


Our second feature tonight is the 1938 George Cukor film, Holiday, the third of four films starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. Although the film was not a financial success,it has been seen as one of George Cukor's best films. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching our second feature this evening - Holiday.



Eighteen months before Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind, Katharine Hepburn says "damned" in a Production Code-approved Hollywood movie. She's recounting her experience in amateur theatrics and, in camp style, performs a fragment of Lady MacBeth's "Out damned spot" sleepwalking line from William Shakespeare.



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