tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post2243022841633324701..comments2024-01-24T01:27:11.111-05:00Comments on Café Muscato: Redux: Birthday Girl - Leading LadyMuscatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04657061324487851341noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-20048175828075585762012-11-02T22:50:52.215-04:002012-11-02T22:50:52.215-04:00You mustn't come between Irene and Godfrey. He...You mustn't come between Irene and Godfrey. He's the first thing she's shown any affection for since her pomeranian died last summer. Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01851297819829806798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-10733104399190824112012-11-02T18:33:27.344-04:002012-11-02T18:33:27.344-04:00Funny enough (or maybe not, given we bloggers'...Funny enough (or maybe not, given we bloggers' penchant for birthdays) I was only reading about Miss Brady today, and I quote: "From opera to operetta, the stage to the screen, silent film to talkies and screwball comedies to weepy drama, Alice Brady was successful in just about every facet available for a performer of her time." which is something to be said, even as an epitaph, really. JxJonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15501010362663971583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-52895413936297769462012-11-02T13:11:04.944-04:002012-11-02T13:11:04.944-04:00Maybe it was a question of unrealized versatility....Maybe it was a question of unrealized versatility. Alice Brady was at home playing the flighty flibbertigibbet in My Man Godfrey and the prairie woman in Young Mr. Lincoln and was always very alive on screen. Helen Hayes when she was young for all her talent was stiff and removed, you almost always saw her acting. When she came back as an older woman she had learned to relax and had a lot of sparkle in her eyes. Of course by that point she pretty much played the same character she won the Oscar for in Airport over and over, the dotty sweet crafty old biddy.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.com