Some Came Running
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Oct 16, 2026
DaveHOST
And it's obviously based on a, a book.
DaveHOST
Um, the same author wrote The Thin Red Line and Some Came Running, which are also movies.
DaveHOST
Um, Sinatra and Dean Martin did Some Came Running with Shirley MacLaine, also a good movie.
DaveHOST
And The Thin Red Line was made early 2000s, I think.
DaveHOST
If you remember, I think Terrence Malick, uh, I think did that movie.
Frank CalvilloHOST
... which is fair enough.
Frank CalvilloHOST
So Gleason instead co-adapted the story into script form with John Patrick, who had written Three Coins in the Fountain, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Some Came Running, a, a, a good handful of well-known titles.
Frank CalvilloHOST
And eventually Gene Kelly, who was already obviously an established director by this point and living in Paris, was given the job of directing.
Frank CalvilloHOST
Gleason fibbed a little bit when he went on The Ed Sullivan Show and said that Kelly had been his first choice all along.
Frank CalvilloHOST
Which is, which is fair enough.
Frank CalvilloHOST
So Gleason instead co-adapted the story into script form with John Patrick, who had written Three Coins in the Fountain, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Some Came Running, a, a, a good handful of well-known titles.
Frank CalvilloHOST
And eventually Gene Kelly, who was already obviously an established director by this point, and living in Paris, was given the job of directing.
Frank CalvilloHOST
Gleason fibbed a little bit when he went on The Ed Sullivan Show and said that Kelly had been his first choice all along.
Frank CalvilloHOST
Which is fair enough.
Frank CalvilloHOST
So Gleeson instead co-adapted the story into script form with John Patrick, who had written Three Coins in the Fountain, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Some Came Running, a good handful of well-known titles.
Frank CalvilloHOST
And eventually Gene Kelly, who was already obviously an established director by this point and living in Paris, was given the job of directing.
Frank CalvilloHOST
Gleason fibbed a little bit when he went on the Ed Sullivan show and said that Kelly had been his first choice all along.
Mike RyanHOST
[laughs]
Keith PhippsHOST
Just a brief aside, I actually bought a LaserDisc player after I had a DVD player, 'cause there was films that were not yet in widescreen that I wanted to see in widescreen, like "Once Upon a Time in the West" and, uh, "Some Came Running." Uh, so I, I had-- I was a two-- I was-- I had, I had both disc players for, for a brief time.
Keith PhippsHOST
I have-- I no longer have a LaserDisc player.
Matt SingerGUEST
You were a late adopter.
Mike ImpreventoHOST
And then he married Mia Farrow and then divorced her when she did Rosemary's Baby instead of his dumbass movie, The Detective.
Kerry DoughertyHOST
I really love this movie, 1958, Some Came Running, with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine.
Kerry DoughertyHOST
Oh, that's
Mike ImpreventoHOST
quite the cast.
Brandon DavisHOST
...
Brandon DavisHOST
but when you look at the other three nominees that year, you got Shirley MacLaine in Some Came Running, which is a wonderful...
Brandon DavisHOST
It's one of my favorite Minnelli movies.
Brandon DavisHOST
And-
Brandon DavisHOST
But yeah, I want to live, once again, a very dynamic of the time ripped from the headline story, which Oscar always loves.
Brandon DavisHOST
But when you look at the other three nominees that year, you've got Shirley MacLaine and Some Came Running, which is a wonderful – it's one of my favorite Minnelli movies – And so fantastic.
Brandon DavisHOST
I think Shirley MacLaine's first really great performance of her career.
Brandon DavisHOST
And her
Illeana DouglasGUEST
Oh, my God.
Illeana DouglasGUEST
Some Came Running.
Illeana DouglasGUEST
[jazzy music]
Alec BaldwinHOST
Actress, filmmaker, and writer Illeana Douglas.
Louis RendonHOST
These kind of all come and go.
Louis RendonHOST
It's worth stopping on Some Came Running in 1958, where she's like a supporting role in this.
Louis RendonHOST
But she's the
Gavin MeviusHOST
standout.
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