The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (183)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon (featuring his nephew Clyde,) the 1951 His Hare-Raising Tale, directed by Friz Freleng.



The four clips from these cartoons all belonged to the pre-1948 AAP library, which was one of the reasons why this cartoon did not air as much as the other post-1948 cartoons on television until 1996 (where Time Warner and Turner had merged, allowing the pre-1948 and post-1948 cartoons to air together on television).


Before the start of our feature presentation ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to bring you another Toad Elevating Moment.



I might actually break down and spend the $60 to see the whole series.


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 series of secret pneumatic tubes and pig latin.

We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today choice - the 1945 film-noir classic, Mildred Pierce, the Oscar award winning comeback vehicle for Joan Crawford. At the time, it was a surprise that any studio wanted to touch the James M. Cain novel on which the film is based. Joseph I. Breen, of the Motion Picture Association of America, was vociferous in his rejection and told the studio “the story contains so many sordid and repellent elements that we feel the finished picture would not only be highly questionable from the standpoint of the Code, but would, likewise, meet with a great deal of difficulty in its release…” Somehow Warner Bros. succeeded in getting the material passed the censors and got the film made. Please join ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching noir classic, Mildred Pierce -



There were conflicts between Michael Curtiz and Joan Crawford. He wanted her canned, claiming she was altering the look and interpretation of the character to make her more glamorous. There were the inevitable arguments over shoulders, with Crawford tearfully (and not altogether truthfully) claiming her dowdy off-the-rack Sears dresses were unpadded. Curtiz started referring to her as "Phony Joanie" and "the rotten bitch," laying into her mercilessly in front of cast and crew. Crawford wanted the director fired and replaced "with a human being."



Demand Euphoria!