Cameo appearances?


I just watched the movie on TCM, and there are two bits in it that make me think there were uncredited cameos in it that I don't recognize. 1) When we first see Bunny working in the record store, there is an older woman buying a record from her, and she tells Bunny that she will play it on her television show. So is this a celebrity? I have no idea who this woman would be. 2) When the gang all piles out of the van at the house where they're having the party, a goofy-looking guy is the last one of the crowd, and he says, "Let me know when it's Thursday" and steps back into the (now empty) van, pulling the door closed. I imagine he must have been someone associated with a popular television series that aired on Thursday nights? Can anyone identify him?

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I also wondered about the older woman at the record store but didn't recognize her. Bunny calls her by name but it's hard to catch. Something like "Miss Eader."

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The woman buying the album is Shirley Eder.

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And who is that?

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Apparently a gossip columnist and agony aunt:


In 1951, Shirley started a program on WOR TV with Ilka Chase and Dorothy Ward called "Women Talk it Over". In 1956 she joined "Monitor" as a roving reporter and interviewer. By then , Shirley had moved to Detroit and began working as the Girl On The Go on WJR Radio show "Composite". In addition she also did her own show "Dear Shirley", giving advice to listeners who wrote her letters. She also wrote a weekly column in 175 newspapers throughout the country through the Bell Syndicate. And she wrote as a guest columnist for Dorothy Kilgallen.

Now 20 years into her career she was courted by the Detroit Free Press and the Knight Ridder syndicate to write 4 weekly columns on Show Business.

Shirley was able to form relationships with Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Bob Hope and many more. She was also able to stay on top of the Broadway scene by maintaining close friendships with Ethel Merman, Carol Channing. She also had great relationships with Joan Rivers, Jacqueline Susann, Kathleen Winsor, Harold Robbins, Neil Diamond, Peggy Lee, Beverly Sills and many more.

She had unlimited energy and passion for getting the story right, her consistent need being to maintain integrity and the confidentiality of those stars who shared their innermost Private thoughts and dreams with her. She was able to write those stories in an entertaining and compelling way, even when the methods and meanness of the gossip industry changed right before her eyes. She reigned as a Hollywood reporter with class and longevity.

Come on lads, bags of swank!

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I sat directly behind Shirley at a Frank Sinatra show in metro Detroit. I was told they usually had the first few rows reserved for friends. He did smile at her a couple of times and introduced her to the audience of more than 10,000 from the stage. She was on cloud nine.

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I assume the guy in the van worked for the delicatessen and was the delivery driver. That doesn't answer the question as to what "See you Thursday" means. The reference may have been edited out.

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