Favorite Vignette?

kenoltingTerry Thomas and the WONDERFUL Jayne Mansfield ! They were screamingly funy !

My favorite vignette is the one with Lucille Ball and Art Carney. That one seems so underrated. Am I the only one here who liked it? It comes near the beginning and is short (like all of them) but I just love it when Carney makes fun of her cooking and she gets mad and screams. Lucy still looked very attractive in this movie even though she was 56 years old at the time. I read something about this movie in a book about Lucy where the author says something like 'she is 56 years old and truly shows her age (in the movie).' So what, she is still a gorgeous woman. Anyway, that's my favorite, but I have so many (Wally Cox making out with the other women while his wife is right across from him, Hal March losing his heavily perfumed coat out the window of the taxi, Jayne Mansfield and Terry-Thomas looking for her missing bra and of course, Joey Bishop deny, deny, denying he was ever in bed with another girl while his wife looks on in amazement). A great movie with great performances. I loved it.

Maybe not exactly a vignette, but the Romanoff's restaurant scene with Sid Caesar (both the real scene and then Morse telling Matthau what the poor schmuck should have done). Sid Caesar was another natural comedian of that era. I just loved him in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

The one with Terry-Thomas & Mansfield.

When she says maybe his wife will think the bra will be hers, and he simply says, "Don't be ridiculous."


"So what else is on your mind besides 100 proof women, 90 proof whiskey, and 14 karat gold?"

Actually my favorite scenes are when Matthau comes home to his wife. He keeps coming up with reasons to cheat on his wife yet "Ruth" keeps proving on and on what a wonderful wife and mother she really is. He tries to pick a fight with her on the amount of money she spent on a gourmet meal she's preparing when she tells him the fancy french meal she is making is just merely a few potatoes, a pound of sausage, and a couple of eggs.

Foiled, he states that that was not a proper meal to give to a child. She comes back with their daughter had already eaten and she had cauliflower, creamed spinach, and lamb chops.

So there!!!!

This is one of my favorite movies and even though it is dated, I've enjoyed it better than most of the movies that are being shown today.

It's "Deny! Deny! Deny!"

It clearly inspired Bill Clinton!



Sam Tomaino

I love Phil Silvers so naturally I like his bit but the Terry Thomas/Jayne Masfield bit is probably the funniest.

Open the door for Mr. Muckle!!

I've only seen this once so far, but right now, I'm still grinning at the lost bra vignette.

Also the one with the guy who left his shoes behind, and the one where the guy denies having an affair...

Ha ha, this movie is so funny!!!!!!

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Jim Hutton: talented gorgeous hot hunk; adorable as ElleryQueen; SEXIEST ACTOR EVER