Nuts In May Film Quotes

Some film buffs then and even now may consider Soup to Nuts, released September 28, 1930 little more than a cinematic curiosity but such an assessment couldn’t be further from the truth, particularly with respect to Ted Healy’s popularity, the continuing transformation of his supporting players Shemp, Moe (then billed as Harry) and Larry, the intrigue of Rube Goldberg’s projects and debut of the five-year-old Billy Barty as Junior.

May 28: Shooting begins on There’s No Business Like Show Business. Marilyn’s director, Walter Lang, does not seem to know how to handle her. Donald O’Connor, Marilyn’s love interest in the film, recalls that the director was afraid to ask her to take her shoes off in a scene because her bouffant hairdo and high heels made her look taller than O’Connor. Lang wants the actor to stand on an apple box. O’Connor goes to Marilyn and tells her, “[T]his idiot’s afraid to ask you to take off your shoes, but I’d feel very strange working with you, standing on an apple box.” Marilyn says, “Oh Christ, the guy’s nuts,” kicks off her shoes, and “everything was fine,” according to O’Connor.

LETTERS FROM REGIONAL THEATER OWNERS “Stay away from this. A nightmare. Will drive ’em out of your theater. It may be a classic to you, but it’s plumb nuts to your public. Some swell acting and production wasted. Way too extreme.” J. K. BURGESS, Iris Theatre, Velva, North Dakota, Motion Picture Herald, January 3, 1942 “Don’t try to tell me Orson Welles isn’t a genius. Herein he has produced a mighty fine picture. Herewith he has established for me the lowest gross I have ever experienced. I hurt all over.” DANIEL KORMAN, Palace Theatre, Ontario, Canada, Motion Picture Herald, February 28, 1942