When worlds collide #71

Movies I’ve stared at recently on TCM #46 (Johnny Mercer, Tunesmith edition)
Turner Classic Movies has been devoting each Wednesday in the month of November to celebrating the genius that is songwriter Johnny Mercer with both a wonderful special (Johnny Mercer: The Dream’s on Me) and movies with songs written by Savannah’s favorite native son. This past Wednesday (November 18) was particularly noteworthy in that it was the actual centennial of Mercer’s birth, and I caught a glance at a handful of the movies shown on the channel that day. (As always, spoiler warnings apply.)

And the Sam Johnson bacon jokes just keep coming...

The Falcon takes over
In a half-hour, Turner Classic Movies is going to treat viewers to a staggering mini-marathon of classic B-pictures featuring the famed literary sleuth created by Michael Arlen—The Falcon. The character made his debut in a short story (Gay Falcon) published in a 1940 issue of Town & Country

Movies I’ve stared at recently on TCM #45 (De Havilland Sisters edition)
(Warning: spoilers contained herein) Hard to Get (1938) – I had to program the DVD player to grab this one since TCM decided to show it at the same time most night auditors are eating dinner/lunch/whatever. It’s fairly standard stuff; Olivia De Havilland plays Margaret “Maggie” Richards, a pampered heiress who storms out of her family’s palatial manse in a huff (or maybe it was a minute and a huff), stops off at a gas station to refuel the valet’s automobile and finds herself with insufficient funds—prompting manager Bill Davis (Dick Powell) to seize her up as a deadbeat and or