tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post2878920795760194580..comments2024-03-21T22:19:26.920-05:00Comments on A Follow Spot: Community Players Goes WWIIJulieKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12521424567356348282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-4614952430998944152011-01-20T10:24:45.927-06:002011-01-20T10:24:45.927-06:00Yes, I read about "Dear Ruth" in the Mos...Yes, I read about "Dear Ruth" in the Moss Hart biographies (he directed it). And in memory I get it mixed up with another once-popular comedy he directed earlier in the 40s, "Junior Miss" -- similar to My Sister Eileen, it was a play by Jerome Chorodov and Joseph Fields based on a series of stories in The New Yorker. And it has a character named Fuffy, which makes me insanely curious.JAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942256334004773509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-90630505672721488312011-01-18T18:36:15.786-06:002011-01-18T18:36:15.786-06:00I haven't heard of "John Loves Mary"...I haven't heard of "John Loves Mary" before, although I do have some sort of recollection of the Ronald Reagan movie. When I first saw the title, I was thinking of "David and Lisa," which has nothing to do with anything. The fact that a Mia Farrow movie called "John and Mary" exists makes me that was probably where my head was going.<br /><br />Anyway, this post-war romantic comedy thing does come up every so often. U of I did "Dear Ruth" a few years ago. It's also Norman Krasna, also post-war, also sweet and cute and all about misunderstandings and mix-ups. Instead of a woman from abroad who is an extra bride for the groom, "Dear Ruth" has the younger sister writing to a soldier, being all lovey dovey as she pretends to be her older sister. That was fun and very well done.JulieKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12521424567356348282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-29302363269719256452011-01-18T15:06:34.203-06:002011-01-18T15:06:34.203-06:00This has always been one of those great mystery ti...This has always been one of those great mystery titles to me (no connection with the Mia Farrow movie of the same name, plus I always get it mixed up with an earlier stage comedy by the Spewacks called Boy Meets Girl). It's really not remembered, yet it used to come up in discussions of the genre in the books I was reading. The annals are full of such once-popular titles, and it's wonderful that your theater is giving you a chance to see it. (Now, I wonder if anyone still does Mary, Mary, which was HUGE in the 60s...)JAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942256334004773509noreply@blogger.com