rec.arts.movies.past-films

David Oberman wrote:
> "Frank . Maloney" wrote:
>
>> Even funnier is when Egbert Sousé (Fields) excutedly tries to repeat
>> this to Og (Grady Sutton), as taken from the IMDb:
>>
>> Egbert Sousé: Ten cents a share. Telephone sold for five cents a share.
>> How would you like something better for ten cents a share? If five gets
>> ya ten, ten'll get ya twenty. A beautiful home in the country, upstairs
>> and down. Beer flowing through the estate over your grandmother's
>> paisley shawl.
>>
>> Og Oggilby: Beer?
>>
>> Egbert Sousé: Beer! Fishing in the stream that runs under the aboreal
>> dell. A man comes up from the bar, dumps $3,500 in your lap for every
>> nickel invested. Says to you, "Sign here on the dotted line." And then
>> disappears in the waving fields of alfalfa.
>
> I laugh just reading it to myself. You know, I think it's high time
> cinewhatsits ... you know, film students & other people ... started
> taking . Fields seriously as a scenarist & writer. Treat Fields
> with the same seriousness accorded other great film comedy writers:
> Hecht, Sturges, Wilder, Lederer, Delmar, Allen, Johnson, &c.
>

I could hardly agree more with you.


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Frank in Seattle
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