Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a classic Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1955 Beanstalk Bunny, (co-starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd,) and directed by Chuck Jones.
Daffy and Bugs acknowledge the original fairy tale as each breaks the fourth wall. Elmer refers to a poker game as he first breaks the fourth wall, as in opening with a pair of Jacks.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been checking out the very funny website, Letters Live, (where actors read actual letters from famous and not so famous people.) We stumbled upon this one, so lets watch it -
Jude Law has to get back into the public's eye and I wonder how many people know who Fred Allen was?.
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 1965 huge musical hit The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. The film was a phenomenal hit, by November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film of all-time - surpassing Gone with the Wind - and held that distinction for five years. For better or for worse, The Sound of Music became the most popular movie musical of all time, copping five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and becoming an enduring hallmark of wholesome family entertainment, though it remains a film in which form triumphs over substance. The true story of the Von Trapps was far less dramatic than what is depicted in the musical: in real life Maria Von Trapp was a difficult woman who had sprung from a troubled childhood, the Captain was neither domineering nor reluctant for his children to embark on a singing career, and the family calmly left Salzburg by train, rather than dramatically escaping the Nazis in the nick of time by hiking over the alps. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Sound of Music.
Christopher Plummer intensely disliked working on this movie. He was known to refer to it as The Sound of Mucus or S&M and likened working with Julie Andrews to "being hit over the head with a big Valentine's Day card, every day." Nonetheless, he and Andrews remained close friends until his death. Andrews claimed that Plummer's cynicism probably helped his performance and this movie, keeping it from being too sentimental.
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