Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-10 (Sunday) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:31:21 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:31:20 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f8982cc9e007dfcba7c81f6dcd1ceefc"; logging-data="3933294"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX183Epnp9OrFvQW8qcjivT0H" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:H8yPZbd/ziZuPxz5KBRCZ06Xdhw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2832 On 3/11/2024 9:08 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > On 3/11/2024 8:18 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >> Dimensional Traveler wrote: >> >>> The Twilight Zone S3E31 'The Trade-Ins' - DVR >>> After 50 years of wedded bliss, John and Martha Holt decide that it >>> would be nice to start it all over again.  (Comcast) >>> An elderly couple shop for younger replacement bodies, then resort to >>> desperate measures to cover the cost.  (IMDb) >>> Trivia: Joseph Schildkraut's second wife (of 29 years) died while he was >>> filming this episode. Coming from a theatrical family, he insisted on >>> finishing the production before he'd begin mourning. Here, he plays an >>> elderly man who must choose between a new body for himself or living the >>> rest of his life with his wife in a pain-wracked body. >> >> I had no idea of the timing. For an actor born in Vienna who began on >> stage in Berlin, he became quite well known on stage on Broadway and >> went back and forth across the Atlantic. He was popular in silent >> movies. In the talkies, people would have remembered him as Dreyfus in >> The Life of Emile Zola (1937). I've seen this once. It's very stagy and >> comes across as more of an early talkie than a more sophisticated of the >> mid 1930s, and the print was lousy. >> >> Of course, he was the vile clerk in The Shop Around the Corner (1940), >> the brilliant Lubitsch/Raphaelson (my great uncle) collaboration. >> >> I've been getting a kick out of the interesting trivia you've been >> digging up. > > +1 The trivia is all from IMDb. So all it took to dig up was a used toothbrush. ;) -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.