No! What's so gorgeous about this Larry?
George: "After knowing you for four days, he asked you to marry him? I think he's probably asked every girl he ever knew to marry him."
I'm with George here. Larry promises he'll try to be a good father for the kids,
whom he hasn't even met yet! Makes a proposal sound rather insincere IMO.
About George being wimpish: he may not be the best lawyer, but he likes Jane and her family(!), and after all he
was elected first selectman. Sounds a lot better than Larry's
"I am gainfully employed".
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Rome. By all means, Rome.
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Cinemaskype
10 years ago
Larry met the kids at the Cub Scout lobster cookout where they shoehorned in that "Be Prepared" song for Doris to sing. Who wouldn't want to be a good father to such adorable musical urchins?
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howard-green-1
9 years ago
Here's what Jack Lemmon had to say about working with Doris:
“Doris Day is the best actress I have worked with to date (1958). That includes the dolls on the stage in New York and in television. And I think she is potentially one of the greatest actresses I’ll ever work with… because in every scene she is so open, simple and honest that I found myself in the position of having to play up to her. Which in the parlance of actors means she’s so good that I automatically reacted to her. Doris gets a line on a scene and that’s it — boom — she comes on so forcefully that she transports fellow actors right into the scene with her. When I watched the rushes and she was funny, I doubled up. And when she was unhappy in a scene I sat there and cried. I’ve never done that before. She’s a wonderfully attractive woman with strength, and vitality and energy, none of which lack femininity. She is definite, there’s nothing wishy-washy about her. Her laugh for instance, it’s a real cackle, full and open-hearted.”
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jet_blanchard
8 years ago
George Denham did ask did ask Jane Boyd to marry him at age 11 in the church choir; Hank Osgood told Jane Boyd that they were getting married when he was home on leave - she "hit him with a clam" because she wanted a ring (Engagement or Wedding?). He stripped his key ring and put it on her finger. They got married, her becoming Jane Boyd Osgood - but George was always there in her life, and never seems to have withdrawn his proposal, he just never pushed her about it. During her "ultimatum" his answers were usually questions or comments. I don't know that he ever did ask her again from the coal tender; it was "You know I will" as in "What do you think I've been waiting around all these years for?"
I suspect that when Larry Hall tried telling Jane Osgood to "wear something blue" he was playing at being the decisive Hank Osgood (badly) - thinking it would help him win her - and Janie did wear something white on the lobster-run. Good-bye, Larry.
It was always George; Larry was pushing boundaries - and maybe he even pushed both Janie and George to make the commitment.
Vademecum...
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