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Bet MacArthur <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 4 Mar 1996 01:20:28 -0500
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On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Gael McGear Sweeney [([log in to unmask]]  wrote,
regarding films with casinos in them:
>"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (1988, Frank Oz) revolves around >conmen at a
casino in the South of France. < END
 
So, for that matter, does "Bedtime Story," the 1964 Marlon Brando/David Niven
debacle, dir by Ralph Levy, of which Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a very close
retelling.
(And not to be confused with _A_ Bedtime Story, 1933, w/Maurice Chevalier;
nor with 'Bedtime Story' 1941, dir Alexander Hall with Frederick March &
Loretta Young.)
 
Cheers,
Bet MacArthur "There were moments of solitude, Arts
Analysis Institute sitting on the boat waiting
Cambridge, Massachusetts for a shot, thinking,
                          In Mass: (617) 455 6189 This can't be
done. It was
In Los Angeles: (310) 313 5059 stupid to begin it, we'll
                      online: [log in to unmask] never finish it.
No one is
                                                  ever going to see this
 
                                              picture, and I'm never going
                                            to work in this town again."
 
                  ---Steven Spielberg, on the making of 'Jaws'
 
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