Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1947 Along Came Daffy , (co-starring Yosemite Sam,) directed by Friz Freleng.
A poster featuring a scantily clad female hangs on the cabin wall. It is an advertisement for a gold rush era establishment that promises Girls! Girls! Girls! But due to censorship of the time, it was only sneaked in briefly.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour take their Oscar ballots very seriously. Remember it's illegal in most states to gamble on your Oscar ballots. So to help you with your 'friendly' completion of your ballot, please watch the following video -
So good luck and no slapping of any of your guests should you be offended by a joke they may make on Sunday
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1962 family drama based on an adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, and starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Brock Peters, and the film debut of Robert Duvall, William Windom and Alice Ghostley.. The film was a financial and critical success right out of the gate. In addition to the three Oscars wins, To Kill a Mockingbird received numerous awards and nominations from such organizations as the American Cinema Editors, the British Academy Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globes, the PGA Golden Laurel Awards, the Writers Guild of America, and the National Film Preservation Board, which placed the film on its National Film Registry in 1995.
Interesting to note that despite universal praise for the two child actors, Mary Badham did not choose to capitalize on her stunning film debut. Badham retired from acting and married a schoolteacher, living near Richmond, VA, and spent most of her time raising her two children. Phillip Alford played a key role in the James Stewart epic Shenandoah, leaving acting at the age of 22 when his value as a child actor had passed. He later became a successful businessman in Birmingham, AL. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching To Kill a Mockingbird. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
The first scene that Gregory Peck shot showed him returning home from his character's law office while his children ran to greet him. Author Harper Lee was a guest on the set that day, and Peck noticed her crying after the scene was filmed. He asked Lee why she was crying, and she responded that Peck had looked just like her late father, the model for Atticus. Lee explained that Peck even had a little round stomach like her father's. "That's not a pot belly, Harper," Peck told her, "That's great acting."
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