Mary Astor

Um, So the film originated as a 1958 television drama called The Lonely Stage.

And it was written by Robert Dozier, and it starred Mary Astor.

Now, there are versions of I Could Go On Singing, particularly from the UK, that were called The Lonely Stage, because in the UK, this film was called The Lonely Stage.

I like that title.

And it was extremely successful.

he took a novel that wasn't even didn't have Zorro in it and adapted it shoehorned Zorro in in the last act so it's hard not to like Fairbanks just on the screen I mean he's been described I think by Mary Astor as as uh he's not an actor he's uh he's a a force or he's an effect and she said that as a compliment you know she said that is the one that you would just watch and uh you certainly see that through the film when he first plays the the son of zero and then he plays the dual role at the end i think though a lot of us after the movie got together and we're talking about how The problem with a sequel like this is that we want to see Zorro sooner in the film.

It's like having a sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark or Star Wars.

And we want to see Luke and so on near the beginning, not toward the end of the movie, right? Right.

With Betty Davis and Olivia de Havilland and Joan Crawford at one point, but she disappeared.

And Mary Astor and Victor Buono and Bruce Dern.

All the good people.

And you forgot the MVP.

They're not playing themselves, except Olivia de Havilland at times because she's just scary.

But I think for 64, you could still consider it like a good, good performance because we were just coming out of that golden age.

I will say what makes Agnes Moorhead stand out from everybody else, I'll say Mary Astor and Cecil Calloway.

tone their performances very finely and they come off the most natural of everybody.

With Betty Davis and Olivia de Havilland and Joan Crawford at one point, but she disappeared.

And Mary Astor and Victor Buono and Bruce Dern.

All the good people.

And you forgot the MVP.

They're not playing themselves, except Olivia de Havilland at times because she's just scary.

But I think for 64, you could still consider it like a good, good performance because we were just coming out of that golden age.

I will say what makes Agnes Moorhead stand out from everybody else, I'll say Mary Astor and Cecil Calloway.

tone their performances very finely and they come off the most natural of everybody.

It was applauded the world over under the title of These Three, a powerful and original drama with a splendid romantic feeling.

It stars Barbara Stanwyck, Errol Flynn, Mary Astor, Constance Collier, Alma Kruger, and Marsha Mae Jones.

Our sponsors, the makers of Luxe Flakes, join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night when the Luxe Radio Theater presents Barbara Stanwyck, Errol Flynn, and Mary Astor and an all-star cast in these three.

This is Cecil B. DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.

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