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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Another Part of the Forest on TCM!


Ann Blyth is pictured above with Edmond O'Brien in Another Part of the Forest (1948).  See the film tonight on Turner Classic Movies after its long-awaited release on DVD - or read about the movie here at Another Old Movie Blog.

More in my book, Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Ann Blyth and Donald O'Connor - a couple of Irish-American kids

 Ann Blyth and Donald O'Connor are a couple of swell Irish-American kids playing a couple of swell Irish-American kid entertainers in The Merry Monahans (1944).  Another top of me hat to you with the approach of St. Patrick's Day.  From my book, Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star.:


She and Donald are mulling over their problems on a park bench where the stereotyped Irish cop played by Robert Homans on the lookout for the reported runaway, has discovered them. 


Ann, innocent as you please, launches into her Irish accent (possibly borrowed from her Irish-born mother), and berates “my fine policeman” for thinking she was anything but the proud daughter of another Irish cop.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Ann Blyth with Barry Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby in TOP O' THE MORNING


Ann Blyth behind bars...or are they merely balusters?...with Barry Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby in Top O' the Morning (1949).  With the fast-approaching St. Patrick's Day, and it's showing on Turner Classic Movies Sunday the 10th at 8 p.m., we bring our attention to this pleasant mystery-comedy...or is it comedy-mystery?

From my book on Ann's career:  Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star.:


 The famed Blarney Stone in Blarney Castle has been stolen, and Bing Crosby, an American insurance investigator—nothing like the hard-edged Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity (1944)—is on the case.  However, like, Fred MacMurray in that same movie, Bing does take to relating his impressions into a Dictaphone.  



Barry Fitzgerald plays the village constable.  His re-match with Bing Crosby, a partnership that first brought success to both of them in Going My Way (1945), is the focus of the film.  Mr. Fitzgerald is a crusty, pompous codger, has no idea how truly innocent he is, and holds the reins of authority in this village only in his own mind.  The villagers, even his own daughter, acknowledge that he is not taken seriously and that solving the crime of the stolen Blarney Stone might finally get him the respect he craves. 



Hume Cronyn, in a 180-degree turn from his sinister role in Brute Force, is his assistant, delightfully played with excitable hero-worship of his superior, but as the plot progresses, we see that Mr. Cronyn has more going on under the surface.  “All the excitement!  It’s a pity Ireland doesn’t have more to steal.”


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