What if...1943's Batman serial was an A-list studio film?

[Goblin19]

I’ve seen The More the Merrier. She’s great as always. I’ve been watching classics since I was 18 and started working at a video store. It was a great way to consume 2-3 movies a day. Then came TCM in my early twenties. Another fun fact, Myrna Loy was never even nominated for an Academy Award. That one, I don’t understand.

[EmergencyIan]

Jean Arthur, Myrna Loy, and Bette Davis are my big 3 for favorite classic actresses. Sorry to continue veering.

Everything Arthur did was great. Loved Loy in The Best Years of Our Lives, but I love that film. Loy was also great in the Thin Man series of movies.

Sort of as a PS, Jean Arthur was born in 1900. So, when you see her in movies from the late 30s to the 50s, she’s that age of whichever year it happens to be. She often played roles meant fo much younger women because if you didn’t know any better, you thought she was. There is a film called The More The Merrier in which she was 43 years of age. It’s a great film regardless, but she looks like she’s about 27-30 and is half dressed through much of the movie...beautiful.

Sorry for veering, again.

- Ian

[thunderbolt]

No. Perhaps Raymond Massey. I didn't suggest any B-list foes.

Hardly B List, he's been in a movies, cartoons, on Gotham. Heck he's a card carrying Legion of Doom member.

[Goblin19]

Jean Arthur, Myrna Loy, and Bette Davis are my big 3 for favorite classic actresses. Sorry to continue veering.

[PNGwynne]

No. Perhaps Raymond Massey. I didn't suggest any B-list foes.

[thunderbolt]

ha!!
Did anyone mention Scarecrow yet?

[PNGwynne]

Um, yes--but you brought up Batman '66.

Edit: Oops, no that was me with Clavicle. Sorry.

[thunderbolt]

here we are veering off course.

[PNGwynne]

I agree, I think she would have had fun on Batman. She did a Man from UNCLE which I have not seen.

[thunderbolt]

Crawford would have been great on the 66 Batshow. She was doing a lot of B stuff around then, so probably would have done it.

[EmergencyIan]

^ Yes, that’s a great film! I believe I’ve seen just about all of her movies, but that’s a stand-out.

- Ian

[PNGwynne]

Ah, Jean Arthur. Vastly underrated, just her voice and delivery is terrific. I agree with you and highly recommend Wilder's A Foreign Affair.

[EmergencyIan]

I liked Joan in those movies like Mildred Pierce. She was great in that era. But, by a few years later, she just wasn’t appealing to me.

- Ian

PS. Do you like Jean Arthur? I thought she was great in every film that I saw her in.

[PNGwynne]

Every day, or almost. I'm addicted to it. It's really influenced this thread lol.

Edit: Gad, a Joan Crawford melodrama is just starting and the producer is William Dozier. Joan should've been on Batman, she might have made Nora Clavicle tolerable.

[EmergencyIan]

^ Another TCM watcher, I see.

- Ian