Showing posts with label Jack Benny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Benny. Show all posts

Monday, December 24, 2012

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 classic from Day One


MiscVideos78rpm YouTube Channel video: The Jack Benny Program - Christmas Shopping (Original air date: December 15, 1957). 
Uploaded December 23, 2012. http://youtu.be/u17Xo0dqJ34


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 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, and it's a film I always gets something new out of, and am always trying to persuade people to see for the first time.
Starring Victor Sjostrom, and a then-22-year old Bibi AnderssonIngrid Thulin and Gunnar Björnstrand


Wild Strawberries, 1957, Directed by Ingmar Bergman (Opening scene)
Rafael Lasevitz YouTube Channel, Uploaded April 6, 2015
https://youtu.be/NeJQXA6CCuA

A better version of this amazing scene and other clips from the film are at 


MiscVideos78rpm YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/user/MiscVideos78rpm