Even more musical heaven from Helen Forrest, Artie Shaw and Bing Crosby!
A trio of reviews, featuring the most unromantic romance you ever saw, a Hollywood tramp in search of trouble, and one of literature’s greatest heroes!
Radio entertainment comes this week from the Lux Radio Theatre
Take my hand and waltz with me through a very special episode dedicated to the world’s greatest musical-dance-comedy team, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire!
I’ll be reviewing three of their movies, as well as presenting a gallery of clips, some of the finest music to have ever featured in a Fred and Ginger movie, a double helping of radio appearances by the duo, AND my personal Top 5 Fred & Ginger Supporting Players!
All this and lots more in this bumper-sized, lighter-than-air edition of Attaboy Clarence!
This week, the SECRET of how to save yourself from drowning (by drinking a what?)...
The Top 10 "THAT GUYS/GALS"...
Find out which five movies Adam would choose to take to a DESERT ISLAND...
PIMPLE fun!
AND reviews on a very scholarly theme, as we take a trip back to school for a pair of Golden Age school movies that are very much worth your time; 1938's 'A Yank At Oxford', and 1940's 'Tom Brown's School Days'.
Radio entertainment comes courtesy of the Screen Guild Theatre, who present a very special story starring a very special guest...
Also, let prizes be drawn, and let prizes be announced!
In this subterfuge-laden episode, listen as Adam brings you the latest headlines, news of the upcoming Alfred Hitchcock special, mends a terrible wrong, and brings you reviews of three movies from the Golden Age that had con-artists at their heart; Preston Sturges' 'The Lady Eve' (1941), Frank Capra's 'Lady For A Day' (1933), and Ernst Lubitsch's finest hour, 'Trouble In Paradise' (1932).
Radio goodness this week comes courtesy of the Lux Radio Theatre, who this time around have a guest producer...
Adam reviews 'Stand-In' and 'It's Love I'm After' both with Leslie Howard, and both from 1937.
Also, get tough with Jimmy Cagney's 'Angels With Dirty Faces', and its bizarre sequel, 'Angels Wash Their Faces' starring a former president of the USA.
And just who the hell DID win the 'Son' and the 'Ghost' of Frankenstein?
There's more love for Eric Blore, a wonderful James Cagney radio play from the Lux Radio Theatre, and news of next week's extravaganza, dedicated to Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce's Sherlock Holmes series of films and radio plays.
Thrill to Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in that vampire film... what's it called again? Hear the greatest line of movie dialogue Adam's heard all week, and what is the Baz in Baz Luhrmann actually short for?
Enter the competition to win the perfect Valentine's present, and hear reviews of Alfred Hitchcock's often overlooked masterpiece, 'Foreign Correspondent' and the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers classic, 'Shall We Dance?".
This week's radio presentation is from the Lux Radio Theatre: Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra's 'It Happened One Night'.