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You say that a lot of personality has been taken from the characters, but that at the same time they have a bigger spotlight. How would both be true? For example, in the book, the housekeeper falls and is laid up for a while. (Fun fact, in the rewrite, it is not specified how she fell, but in the o...

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Password To Larkspur Lane, A Nancy Drew novel.

Improve Your Reading (1947) The actress playing the little girl here looks so familiar. I'm going nuts trying to figure out what other instructional film I've seen her in when she was older. Her eyes and facial expressions are especially distinctive, as at 5:20. The boys looks somewhat familiar, to...

Control Your Emotions (Coronet, 1950) The psychologist looks familiar. (Maybe he’s been in other Coronet films?) This guy reminds me kind of Groucho in certain angles. That seemed like kind of a silly trick, pouring the soda back and forth like that and spilling it all over the place. I didn’t unde...

From 1951 (which seems to have been a golden year for IF's :D): Snap Out of It I wonder why this boy is so extremely upset about the B. If he's that much of a perfectionist as his reaction would indicate, you wouldn't think his grades would run a steady stream of C's. It does seem strange that he'd...

Bramble

I also thought that maybe the commercials were so chill because it was on so late at night. Could well be. Also, with those lines about how a man's clothing shouldn't be noticed, I think they were aiming for the good-taste angle. That's a great point. Many of the commercials that were on during The...

Frosted Mini Wheats 1972

I thought it was hilarious that they are just flinging the boxes all over the place.

https://youtu.be/J9rfOdEFWcY

Did you know that Carson had a clothing line? Wonder how long this lasted? No! Never heard of that. The commercial Is kind of odd. It must have never taken off. I did a little quick research, and it seems it was relatively short lived, just a few years. At first, I was kind of inclined to agree tha...

Did you know that Carson had a clothing line? Wonder how long this lasted? Spring 1973

I first saw this watching an episode where Doc and Ed were doing an on the spot advertisement for the fall line. Wish I could find that clip.

https://youtu.be/tFStQ089z3w