Unfaithfully Yours
It's incredibly conceited of me to say so, but rereading today's page made me laugh out loud. I don't know that it will tickle the funnybone of anyone who hasn't seen Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours, but I hope that it will persuade a few film buffs to see the film if they haven't, and to watch it again if they have.
I saw Rex Harrison twice onstage. The first time, he was still playing Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, a part that I've always felt that his performance in Unfaithfully Yours gave him a lock on. The second time was in 1985, in a Broadway revival of Frederick Lonsdale's 1923 comedy, Aren't We All? I don't remember anything about the play, except that nobody said "Tennis, anyone?", but the cast was glittering, with Claudette Colbert, Lynn Redgrave, and Jeremy Brett. It was pointed out that Claudette Colbert, who lived to be ninety-two, had launched her career by the time the play was introduced! And I have never seen a better demonstration of "The show must go on." Jeremy Brett's wife, the Mystery series producer Joan Wilson, had died the night before, or the night before that.
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I actually was talking about "Unfaithfully" yesterday with my partner, after we had watched "A Letter to Three Wives", one of whom is Linda Darnell. What a beauty, and quite an actress. There was a bio on the disc--a tragic life which I had not known about--pushed by a frustrated, alcoholic Mother, signed too young, etc...... She was married to a friend of my parents but I don't remember ever meeting her.
Anyhow, now I've got to get "Unfaithfully Yours."..and I did see Sexy Rexy on B'way in 1985 as well. He was married to the one of the greatest beauties ever ever on screen: Kay Kendall.
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August 28, 2006 11:31 AM