Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Toned Down


Source: The Cavalier Daily. 24 April 1940. Page 3.

To read Burgess Meredith's thoughts on his friend Franchot, click on this earlier post

I'm not sure of the particular war drama this non-Franchot fan was referring to, but Franchot starred in quite a few excellent war films: Today We Live (1933); The World Moves On (1934); The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935); Suzy (1936); They Gave Him a Gun (1937); Three Comrades (1938); The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942); Five Graves to Cairo (1943); Pilot No. 5 (1943); The Hour Before the Dawn (1944). 

According to the naysayer in this column, I guess there ought to be more than one dreamer peddling Coca Cola in the North Pole, eh? ;)
How I imagine Franchot's face as he overheard the reporter's comments from the next room.


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