Have a terrible feeling I’m going to have to read John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra for research purposes-– I mentioned in the latest chapter of Gentleman of the Shade that Eddy acted in a movie adaptation – it was just sort of a throwaway bit, but Mel speculated that Lambkin is going to track the movie down and watch it, and y’know, she’s right.

I look forward to the report on the film.

Just two totally normal men from the 1930s who are definitely not any of the Marx Brothers.

I love that photo.

I would have seen Albert Finney first in Annie (1982), which I'm still not used to, but he's really terrific in The Dresser (1983), which is also where I got watching Tom Courtenay in anything.