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Sad to know...

posted 10 years ago by MinaMitchell
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...that Carole Lombard was supposed to do this film but Claudette was great! She looked so great for 37-38! Mary was 3 years younger but Colbert looked younger although they were both good in this film. Loved the Goodnight Sweetheart scene. The 40s had such smooth storytelling!

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[–] JackBluegrass 9 years ago

Yes. Preston Sturges was so good at writing fast-paced dialogue, but still making his storytelling so smooth. Plus, he was a great director of his own material.

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[–] lubin-freddy 8 years ago

Lombard would have made quite a different character. Colbert made her character a bit stronger and more stable, less "screwball" than Lombard would have done. But I'm sure that Sturges would have gotten the best out of her, as he did with all his actors.

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[–] Midgegirl 8 years ago

She looked so great for 37-38!

Woah- no wonder actresses fear turning 40 if that's how some of the public view them.

Happily, Sandra Bullock, Tina Fey, Amy Adams, Helena Bonham Carter, Helen Hunt, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kim Cattrall, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jennifer Aniston, Kristen Wiig et al all somehow managed to keep on being sexy and funny past that cripplingly geriatric age.

[–] Underdog_73 7 years ago

Midgegirl replied Jun 8, 2016
"She looked so great for 37-38!"

Woah- no wonder actresses fear turning 40 if that's how some of the public view them.

No, I think that was just a ridiculous statement. I have to assume the OP is a child. No normal person speaks of 37 or 38 as if it's equivalent to 87 or 88. It was just a ridiculous thing to say, and one you wouldn't hear outside the walls of a middle school.