Family Resemblance?

Yeah, Davis' side would certainly have added nice features to the gene pool. But a look like Borgnine's usually shows up in later generations and Reynolds' face is nothing like his.

Realistically, it would have been expensive and time-consuming for Hollywood to cast every relative visually convincingly in every film. But I enjoy the extreme incongruities, like Reynolds/Borgnine, Eugene Pallette in My Man Godfrey with the beautiful Carole Lombard and Gail Patrick as his daughters, or George Peppard and George Hamilton as half brothers in Home From The Hill.

In her autobiography Debbie Reynolds was very complimentary about working with Davis and said she learned a great deal about the details of screen acting from her (such as working with props).

"I don't use a pen: I write with a goose quill dipped in venom!"---W. Lydecker

..And how could Wallace Beery have been Jane Powell's father in "A Date With Judy"??



"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything!"....

What about the accents? Davis with a New England patrician accent was playing urban and uneducated. Reynolds' accent is a mid-western non-accent which sounded all the more out of place when she spoke with bad grammar. Fitzgerald of course had the thick brogue. All I was thinking was, "Guh?"

There is a God

Love Jamie's looks. Liza's looks are unique and I think much more interesting than her mother's, though her substance abuse hurt them.