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The background on the film ‘Angel Face’ is that Howard Hughes wanted director Otto Preminger to make Jean Simmons miserable for wanting out of her RKO contract. One way that Preminger was able to diminish Simmons, after Robert Mitchum refused to provide physical abuse, was by featuring Mona Freeman to maximum flattering effect. Mona’s modest start in show business was as one of the first Miss Subway girls in New York.

Preminger pushed the limit of what censors allowed on screen in 1953. Mona is completely comfortable with Mitchum seeing her in a slip and that obviously wasn’t the first time he zipped up her dress, despite the characters not being married. Something about Robert Mitchum I’ve long thought is that the way he talked sounded somewhat like Bing Crosby.

A perfect comparison, showing how carefully Tarantino presented his altered Sixties reality in ‘Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood’.

This 20-minute video would make a good 7-page comic book story, so I had no trouble guessing the ending, but what I didn’t see coming was the secretary. You have the advantage of seeing her in the preview picture, called a poster frame. Hey, is that……..? Yes, it is.

https://youtu.be/1FzdrPRmCLQ

Neil Innes has died. I’m shattered by this terrible news and will write more later.

The cartoon below features Neil performing a Beatles song, and doing it straight, for an HP computer commercial in England. A tip o’ the Dog Rat toupee to J.J. Sedelmaier for this. He’s the animator who collaborated with Stephen Colbert on the Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoons, among other TV Funhouse features for Saturday Night Live.