Remember your first kiss, your first crush?
Sure I do.
That magical age of innocence.
The Wonder Years. Sunday, 6.30.
Tonight's special movie from Bill Collins is proudly brought to you by Continental Copper Soup Special.
Good evening. Welcome to our wonderful movie tonight.
Yanks. I love it and I hope you love it too.
And later of course, Tovarish of the Golden Years of Hollywood.
Tovarish is very special and incidentally I believe it was one of Hitler's favourite plays.
When it was a smash hit in the theatres of Europe in the 1930s.
Now before Yanks, I'd like to remind you to stay with us at the end of the movie for this week's question in the Copper Soup Special Hollywood Holiday Contest.
Produced by Continental Copper Soup Special.
As you know, the prize is a week in Hollywood in Los Angeles, flying Air New Zealand and staying at the Biltmore Hotel.
With my wife Joan and I as your special hosts.
I'll have your second question plus the number to ring at the end of Yanks.
So make sure you have a pencil or a pen and paper handy for that purpose.
Yanks, as I said, I love.
It's a very romantic film and it's a film drawn from truth.
It avoids most of the cliches that one associates with war films and it was shot, a lot of it, in West Yorkshire.
I think you'll be finding that Richard Gere and Lisa Eichhorn who play the two main characters will cast quite a spell.
And watch out for Rachel Roberts who plays Lisa Eichhorn's mother.
She is fantastic.
And now Yanks.
I hope you've enjoyed Yanks.
I think it's a very special movie and it was made shortly before Richard Gere made one of his finest films, American Gigolo.
What a wonderful recreation of life in England in World War II.
I'm sure many of you must know that intimately.
Coming up very soon on the golden years of Hollywood, a wonderful picture.
Tavaarish directed by Anatole Litvak with a great cast.
I know you'll like it.
So stay with us for Tavaarish.
But right now it's question time.
Do you see that number on your screen right now?
Make a note of it because it's the number to ring to leave your answer to this week's question in the Cup of Soup Special Hollywood Holiday Contest produced by Continental Cup of Soup Special.
I'm sure you know by now but let me tell you again you could win a week in Hollywood for two people.
You fly Air New Zealand and you'll be staying at the fabulous Biltmore Hotel with my wife Joan and I as your hosts.
You only have to correctly answer one of the four questions asked during the competition.
Now here's question number two.
If you've been watching the Hardy family on Sunday afternoons, this will be an easy one.
Question.
Who plays the part of Marion, Andy Hardy's sister?
If you don't know the answer, but I'm sure you must, there will be another chance next week.
Remember the contest closes on July the 9th and the winners will be announced here on 10 by me on July the 13th.
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And now do stay with us.
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And now welcome to the golden years of Hollywood.
I think you'll like to Irish.
I love it very much.
It's a fabulous play which reached an international reputation in the 1930s and one strange thing went with it.
It appears that it was Hitler's favorite play for some time in the 30s and he went to see it about four times.
And that was always tagged onto the play and is in the introduction itself to the published volume of the play.
Also, it was adapted into English by Robert E. Sherwood.
The original play was written by Jacques de Vaal, set in Paris.
And Robert E. Sherwood, who wrote Idiots Delight, Petrified Forest, Waterloo Bridge, Road to Rome, many great plays.
He created this play and I think he had an idea that the Luntz might play it.
That's Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontaine, who of course played the leads in the first Broadway production of Idiots Delight.
As things turned out, Warner Brothers got the rights and the role, the leading female role was originally promised to Kay Francis.
Kay lost out, however, and as the film came up on the screen, the three leading players were not contract players at Warner Brothers.
They were brought in to do it, which must have upset quite a few people at Warner Brothers at this time.
Here are our two leads into Varish.
Cluette Colbert and Charles Boyer.
They play Russians in Paris.
Now, I know we have both of them born in France.
I mean, Charles Boyer couldn't be more French if he tried.
But they are perfectly cast in their roles and I think you'll like them.
And I'm trying to refrain from telling you too much about the characters they play,
because there are a lot of lovely little surprises in dialogue and visuals right through the film.
Now, the going really gets very funny when we bring into the story of the two characters played by Claudette and Charles Boyer.
Melville Cooper, remember him, I always do, as Mr Collins the clergyman in Pride and Prejudice.
And on the other side, Isabelle Jeans, who's most remembered by most people these days, I guess,
for her participation in the musical by Vincent Minnelli, Gigi.
Now, in our next shot, we have two other very likeable people.
Anita Louise, who is charming as Helene Dupont.
And with her, the young man who plays her brother, who we don't see very much of,
but he's a very likeable actor, Maurice Murphy.
So there you are, they're our major stars, but there are two others of special interest.
Take a look at this shot, it's a dinner party and one of the most memorable dinner parties ever put on the screen.
The lady standing is Heather Thatcher.
Remember her as Aunt Pat in Beaugeste.
Heather Thatcher hasn't got much to do, but she does it with gratefulness.