Old Moviemania

Blogfather and close-personal-acquaintance Bill Sherman has a posting on his blog about the previously pondered 1930 circus comedy Rain or Shine. Only thing Bill misses in his take on this early Capra talkie is the fact that circus fat lady Ethel Greer, who gets two pieces of screen time early in the movie (and is nearly forgotten by movie's end when the circus has been decimated by a fire), is quite a cutey. Claims to be six-hundred pounds in the film, and I don't doubt it one bit. Now I wanna re-watch the Hope & Crosby flick Road to Zanzibar (which also has Miz Greer playin' a fat lady), and, fortunately for me, it's gonna be shown April 22nd on Turner Classic Movies as part of the cable net's month of April Fool comedies. (Also noted for that month: the Marie Dressler reducing salon comedy, Reducing, which is scheduled for April 29th and also sounds intriguing.) Plenty of time to sign up for TCM, gang. . .