Posted on 10/18/2018 2:52:36 PM PDT by rexthecat
I think that was Broderick Crawford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MapC9mBqUVk
Above is a short video where Ralph talks about how wonderful the Christmas season is, then goes out of character and wishes the audience a Merry Christmas.
I always thought he was satirizing himself, and convincing everyone that women need refrigerators. :-)
Alice: we get our revenge.
Ralph: how can a woman possibly get revenge on a ma n?
Alice: we marry you!
I had the privilege of sitting in the front row at one of her book signing tour stops in Chicago ca 1994. Seemed like a delightful lady. She died about two years later.
The last thing I recall seeing of him was a 60 Minutes interview done in the mid 80's -not long before he died. You had the sense that all the booze and smoking had produced the expected result, and it seemed he wasn't that happy. Which was unfortunate given all the laughs he had provided.
It seems a number of comedians that make so many laugh, are, in the own personal lives, very unhappy people.
Supposedly Edmund Kean the great early 19th century English actor said this on his deathbed, “Dying is easy. it’s comedy that is hard”.
To the Moon, Alice...What a great Show...
Johnny Fever? Herb is definitely a goner.
They don’t get it. When he said “To the moon, Alice” he was encouraging her to be the first female astronaut.
And used in a great movie, “My Favorite Year” starring Peter O’Toole.
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