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Oct. 19, 1960: Casey Stengel, the most successful baseball manager of modern times, was fired by the New York Yankees Tuesday only because of his age and despite his heated insistence that at 70 he is "just as good as I ever was," The Times says.
Note: I’ve actually seen “Not as a Stranger” (which is a pretty good book, as I recall) but “Studs Lonigan?” I missed that one. On the jump, “College Confidential” with Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows and Mamie Van Doren. And no, neither "Studs Lonigan" nor "College Confidential" is on Netflix.
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Albert Zugsmith was Universal's lackluster, B-Unit producer. But when Orson Welles was ready to return to making films in America, he accepted a gig from Zugsmith. Quite to everyone's surprise and Zugsmith's chagrin, he turned out what we now recognize as a masterpiece, "Touch of Evil". It was delivered on time and under budget.
Posted by: Arye (Leslie) Michael Bender | October 19, 2010 at 09:39 AM
College Confidential is low budget and pretty square, but then so was 1960. Its plot was reused in The Explosive Generation [1961] with William Shatner as the cool teacher who talks about sex, and Patty McCormick of The Bad Seed as the bad girl. [At a recent celebrity autograph event, she initially forgot that she'd worked with Shatner over 40 years ago.] Steve Allen was way ahead of his time on The Tonight Show, but by the time he made College Conf. Steve was already becoming a load.
Posted by: benito | October 19, 2010 at 09:42 AM