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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-10 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:31:21 -0700
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On 3/11/2024 9:08 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> On 3/11/2024 8:18 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> 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.  ;)

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