Our Miss Brooks On Decades (subchannel) All Day / Today / Sunday 3-18-18

For all you labia lickers who love this lady who not only couldn't compete with Lucy O'Ball but is inferior to Vivian Vance

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I watched ev episode...eve arden is tre fab @@@

luv that channel that shows old shows. I Married Joan is another gr8 oldie. viva la vintage !!!

Eve Arden one of the great comedians of her or any time. 'MR BOYNTON!!!'....

That guy who plays her student is like 50 years old. Ridiculous

Binge watched some yesterday. I love Eve Arden.

It just doesn’t hold up very well, some of the plot lines and resolutions don’t even make sense. It really makes one appreciate ILL.

The dreamy Mr. Boynton. Sigh ....

It is striking how cheap the sets are!

R1 I love Miss Brooks, but "I Married Joan" is pretty awful. One can see why it was the VERY poor man's "Lucy."

Alleged cross-dresser Jeff Chandler was the original radio Mr. Boynton.

I just saw Robert Rockwell on two different "Perry Mason" reruns.

In the final season, they did a radical shift in the series by moving to a different school and ditching some of the cast. I don't think Decades is going to show any from that season.

I watched a couple of episodes and the stories are all variations on 5-6 themes: Miss Brooks wants to date Mr Boynton, Miss Brooks is broke, Miss Brooks is in trouble with the principal, Miss Brooks friends want to give her a surprise party and things go awry, etc. It's weird to see her being so chummy with the big goofy student who (supposedly) has a crush on her - getting rides to school and borrowing his car. Does Gale Gordon ever play a character other than the overbearing boss?

Did the series end with Miss Brooks and Mr Boynton finally getting together?

OUR MISS BROOKS is unworthy of the fabulous Eve Arden. Her dry wit and droll delivery brightened every 1940s film she appeared in, but she often seems hemmed in as the fretful 1950s schoolteacher and only rarely does the writing rise to her level. A rare good exchange (I've posted it before in an I Love Lucy thread but it deserves a repeat)

Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft): "When I was in my teens, there weren't very many stars on television." Connie Brooks: "When you were in your teens, there weren't many stars on the flag."

This show doesn't do it for me. I know Eve Arden movie career was built on her demeanor of the hard-bitten worldly woman; she's seen it all and has no time for nonsense. It's just a little jarring to see her as a schoolteacher in a comedy format and to be so... stiff and formal. I guess it's weird seeing a 50's comedy where the lead female isn't covered in chocolate or disguising herself as a chair. Also, maybe because Miss Brooks doesn't have a girlfriend to get into wacky situations with it's hard to see her as a comic figure. Eve Arden is too much of a stoneface to telegraph much humor. I watched an episode where she has no money for lunch and she talks a student into letting her taste some roast beef multiple times. A different actress could have made that hilarious but EA just made it seem forced.

EA gives me the impression that she thinks that she is better than the material - she always has this look on her face like the lines she has to read are leaving a bad taste in her mouth.

[quote]Did the series end with Miss Brooks and Mr Boynton finally getting together?

They made a movie version which ends with them getting engaged.

It's pretty obvious that Boynton is gay.

[quote]"I Married Joan" is pretty awful. One can see why it was the VERY poor man's "Lucy."

Yet I liked it enough to watch it every day at 5 back in the 1950s or '60s.

[quote]They made a movie version which ends with them getting engaged.

FYI... The "Our Miss Brooks" film was the bottom bill of a double feature with the John Wayne & Natalie Wood western The Searchers"

Right R16! For all of her flirting with the guy, he seems oblivious and never seems to have an iota of romantic feelings. That freak student showed more interest in her.

r8

Then you didn't watch it at all. While the setup is similar that's where it all ends. Joan is clearly the star and she is totally physically comedy. Lucy did physical comedy but that was second by a long shot to the plot. The fact that a huge number of scripts were taken word for word from the radio series "My Favorite Husband" where physical comedy has no use, is proof alone.

Lucy was also self centered, ambitious while Joan was not.

This isn't to say Lucy isn't better, it is, because of the SCRIPTS, but both shows are not alike other than the superficial setup.

r16

No, back then men were girl shy and women were NOT WHORES. The Great Gildersleeve would've considered himself lucky if he gotten a kiss from Leila (Played by ILL alumnus Shirley "Stop Cacklin' Marion" Mitchell) after ONE SEASON of dating.

That was when people had class and taste and could tell a story without having every other line be vulgar.

[quote]No, back then men were girl shy and women were NOT WHORES.

Oh please, Miss Brooks did everything but hike her skirt over head to attract Mr. Boynton.

I like the radio version better.

Eve in Let's Face it!.....

O.K., I DID laugh at the flying cat.

At least Mr. Mooney takes it down a notch or two so you only don't like him instead of loathing him.

r24 Carol Channing was Eve's understudy, it also featured DL fave Nanette Fabray!

r24 To tie this back to Our Miss Brooks, the woman on the left is Edith Meiser. On "I Love Lucy," she played Phoebe Littlefield, whose husband was played by .... Gale Gordon!

This was Eve's number (with Vance and Meiser)......

I hate Danny Kaye enough to pull him out of Kensico just so I can kick what's left of his bony ass.

R13, come here and sit by me. You are obviously a person of discernment and taste, unlike OP. Eve's presence always guaranteed that the film wouldn't be a complete loss. Among the films in which she gave a strong dramatic performance are "My Reputation " and "The Unfaithful. "

Eve is just too big for TV

Her constant "I'm desperate for a man" act gets tedious, just like it did with the Sally Rogers character on "The Dick Van Dyke Show".

both of these shows hold a senti-mental attachment for me....romanticizing some eras i am sure..... i don't know why i feel pulled to them.

Aww, shucks, r31. You are too sweet. Thank you. One of Eve Arden's unheralded qualities is her impeccable sense of style. In her 1940s films, She held herself like a fashion model and knew how to wear with flair slightly over-the-top fabulous gowns and HATS that would have overwhelmed an actress lacking Eve's wit and appealing, crisp self-assurance. Eve Arden may be casual at times, but she is never dowdy. Connie Brooks is dowdy.

Here's Eve in VERY WARM FOR MAY (1939) Jerome Kern's last (and unsuccessful) Broadway show . Eat your hearts out, William Ivey Long & Catherine Zuber!

That hat. Big Brooches. Eve Arden Fashion DO!

Check out the fourth photo down after the main text. That was no "mistake" - the author knew EXACTLY what he was doing. He knows full well that Eve would have NAILED Kay Thompson's role in FUNNY FACE.

Excellent essay on Eve's role as a bigoted town busy-body - whose unhappiness makes her sympathetic - in DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (1960).

I can't find the link, but a blogger told a story of how he ended up sitting next to Eve Arden at a play. She fell asleep part of the way through and farted in her sleep, the odor traveling quite the distance.

I watched the entire series on MeTV a couple of years ago, but once was enough.

Mr Boynton seems so gay to me, he was petrified to even kiss Miss Brooks. I liked that about him.

Mr Conklin the principal is one of the few roles in which Gale Gordon is bearable . His character is smart and sarcastic and not merely the befuddled patsy he later played.

Walter was so charmingly enacted by Richard Crenna, obviously way too old for the role but played without inhibition or guile.

The show has a slapdash informality but the stories are weak and often just peter out with no punchline or big finish. Which is why it was "one and done" for me.

Eve Arden was brilliant on this show, with the roll of a eyeball or lickin her lips, she could make the world laff like heck!!!

we miss u eve babe

Eve Arden's hair in "Miss Brooks" was often a nightmare, with a too-tight bun in the back.

Her daughter had a stain glass window shop on Haight st in frisco for yrs, she said momma was tight and never gave her a dime. the daughter was kinda bitchy tho...

Speaking of Decades, binging, and well Rose Marie, I watched a lot of the Doris Day show. It was awful. I never would have imagined Doris would have lent her name to such a shit show. In every episode it looked like she was adlibbing and never studied a single line of the script. Yes for part of the series Rose Marie was doing her man hungry, cunt like Niagara Falls bit.

Drois needed the money. She was flat broke. I guess she made enough, given that she's been retired for thirty years. And let's face it, she's not a well remembered name like Liz Taylor or Monroe.

Queen Doris if you please

mrs davis, miss brooks landlady/roomie. she made such tasty breakfasts

(doris was not broke, tho her hubby left her semi broke but she made tons after he died)

gosh I think ive watch 12 episodes on this weekend marathon theyr doin.

love miss brooks and her funny twitches.

[quote]Drois needed the money. She was flat broke. I guess she made enough, given that she's been retired for thirty years. And let's face it, she's not a well remembered name like Liz Taylor or Monroe.

It's well documented here, Doris' husband manager signed her up for a series and promptly dropped dead. He hadn't even told her yet. She didn't want to do it but was a total pro and fulfilled her contract. She she did the best she could with the situation but soured on show biz and retired the second the final shot was in the can.

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