Rex Harrison – Lee Duigon

Rex Harrison Dr. Dolittle Bust

Mask of Rex Harrison as Dr. Doolittle

Sometimes you’ve really got to wonder about our CIA. Are they gathering intelligence that we’ll need for national security–or are they just fatzing around?

Early in actor Rex Harrison’s career, someone, for reasons not given, made a big bunch of Rex Harrison masks. Somehow the CIA acquired them. They then issued the masks to spies on covert operations (https://www.factinate.com/people/facts-rex-harrison/).

“Comrade! I could have sworn I just saw Rex Harrison putting a tap on our phone!”

“Impossible, comrade! He’s out in Hollywood, shooting a movie…”

Confuse-a-Commie Inc. Well, maybe it was a cunning plan. Who’s gonna believe Rex Harrison is sneaking around the Kremlin?

I wonder if the CIA has any of those masks left and is still using them. Your tax dollars at work.

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Take a lot of classical music and wrap it around at least a dozen solid belly laughs, and you’ve got Unfaithfully Yours.

Patty and I have seen this movie a bunch of times, but not in the past few years–and it still cracked us up today. Preston Sturges, famous for his screwball comedies, made this film in 1948, starring Rex Harrison and Linda Darnell–with a great supporting cast.

When a volatile, hot-headed symphony orchestra conductor thinks his wife has cheated on him, his imagination shifts into overdrive. But when he tries to do the things he’s imagined–like frame his secretary for murder–it’s a whole ‘nother story!

If you’ve never seen this before, you’ll be floored by how funny it is. Laugh till you plotz! We rented it on amazon and got all the laughs we bargained for.