One Moment Please

My Dear Fellow,

"The Strawberry Blonde" was a bit of a delight. James Cagney as "Biff" Grimes a dentist with a heart of gold who can't resist a scrap. He spends most of the film with at least one black eye.

The film is accompanied by the song "And The Band Played On". If you don't know the tune DO NOT GOOGLE IT. It is the sort of earworm that will stay with you for a month.

(As an aside, it is also the song that Hitchcock turned into a nightmare at the carousel climax of "Strangers on a Train").

Here is the title card that showed at the end of the film and it warmed my heart. I imagined those 1930's audiences swaying in unison and singing along in the movie theatre. I hope that's what happened, and that they left the cinema with a song in their heart as they swarmed out in the streets.

I don't know if that's what really happened, but it is a nice thought, no?

El P.