Two views of the entertainment world of Christmas 1957: Pre-Christmas shopping and American comedy as seen thru the eyes of Jack Benny, and Ingmar Bergman's masterful 'Wild Strawberries' opens in Sweden the day after Christmas and becomes a film classic from Day One.

Two views of the entertainment world of Christmas 1957: Pre-Christmas shopping and American comedy as seen thru the eyes of Jack Benny, and Ingmar Bergman's masterful 'Wild Strawberries' opens in Sweden the day after Christmas, and becomes a film classic from Day One.

MiscVideos78rpm YouTube Channel video: 

The Jack Benny Program - Christmas Shopping 

(Original air date: December 15, 1957). Features actor/cartoon voice Mel Blanc!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cML2elJIY


And on December 26th, 1957, Ingmar Bergman's classic film and screenplay of remembrance, "Wild Strawberries" -Smultronställe- officially opened in Sweden, the same year that he had directed his first film, the classic, "The Seventh Seal."

Both films in one year!

Both are among my all-time favorite films, and in the case of Wild Strawberries, I've probably seen it -conservatively- over 20 times, mostly on Turner Classic Movies/TCM.

It's a film that I always gets something new out of, and as my family and most of my close friends know, is a film that I'm always trying to persuade them -and other people- to see for the first time, so they can finally "GET" Bergman.

Starring Victor Sjostrom, and a then-22-year old Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin and Gunnar Björnstrand.


Wild Strawberries, 1957, Directed by Ingmar Bergman (Opening scene)

with English subtitles
Rafael Lasevitz YouTube Channel, Uploaded April 6, 2015
https://youtu.be/NeJQXA6CCuA

A better version of this amazing scene, as well as other clips from important scenes from the film are at Turner Classic Movies website for the film, here:
https://www.tcm.com/video/1196578/wild-strawberries-1957-movie-clip-my-name-is-isak-borg

Merry Christmas everyone!

God Jul allihopa!

Dave 

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