Andy Falls in Love with an Actress
- Episode aired Mar 19, 1953
- 30m
IMDb RATING
8.6/10
14
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Andy meets a pretty girl who is an actress. He, with Kingfish's help, manages to get cast in a play with her-with predictably disastrous results.Andy meets a pretty girl who is an actress. He, with Kingfish's help, manages to get cast in a play with her-with predictably disastrous results.Andy meets a pretty girl who is an actress. He, with Kingfish's help, manages to get cast in a play with her-with predictably disastrous results.
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Spencer Williams
- Andy
- (as Spencer Williams Jr.)
James Adamson
- The Carpenter
- (uncredited)
Bobby Johnson
- Sam
- (uncredited)
Arthur McNeely
- Frank
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe term "legitimate theater" dates back to the Licensing Act of 1737, which restricted "serious" theater performances to the two patent theaters licensed to perform "spoken drama" after the English Restoration in 1662. Other theaters were permitted to show comedy, pantomime or melodrama, but were ranked as "illegitimate theater".
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Absolutely absurd, but also awfully funny
Andy is in love with an actress named Cynthia, who is an actress on stage. How much in love? As he tells Kingfish about it, he says they're going to have a long engagement to get to know each other before they get married. He adds that he doesn't expect to actually marry her for "two or three days."
When he goes to her apartment, she tells him she can't go out because her new play opens next week and she has to rehearse with her co-star that evening in her apartment. She introduces Andy to him and he is allowed to watch them rehearse. Of course, it's a love scene-the "G" rated kind, of course, but Andy is still incredibly jealous and keeps interrupting them. Finally the man storms out saying he can't rehearse this way.
Cynthia tries to get Andy to accept her profession-as it is legitimate theater-and she is not fooling around with this guy at all. Andy comes to watch them rehearse for a week, but it still bristling about it. Especially when Kingfish tells him how if the play is a success, she'll be acting every night, every week for a year, or more, making love to this man on stage (the old-fashioned meaning, of course). Andy asks if there's a way out of it. Kingfish comes up with a scheme to get the guy to leave.
He pretends to be a newspaper theater critic and goes to tell the man how the play is such a dud it will ruin his career. He advises him to get out of it to save his career, by faking laryngitis. Somehow, even though opening night is hours away, he agrees.
The director/producer somehow agree to let Andy take over the lead, as he has memorized the lines from watching all those rehearsals (a fact that shocks us viewers-that he would truly memorize all the lines).
All of the above silliness is like a typical I Love Lucy plot-leave your logic-meter at the door to accept what you see. They are just trying to get to the "big" scene. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. I complain the most when the big scene itself is ruined by nobody doing anything logically. Once they got into the play, their actions and reactions were logical.
We see the theater with the cheapest-looking sets even including most high school productions. Andy, of course, has no idea where to go on stage, but he is trying, with the help of his friend Kingfish waiting in the wings to give him lines if he gets nervous.
But Andy turns the play into a cockamamie bunch of silliness, starting with when he enters for his first scene walking on stage at the rear, beyond the railing of the ship on which the show is set, thus appearing to be walking on the sea. Several times, Kingfish's hat is visible as he creeps along behind that same "railing." Later, Andy trying to carry his girlfriend (in the show) accidentally drops her "into the sea," and he needs Kingfish's visible help to get her back onto the right side of that railing.
I would argue that it was all more far-fetched than any of the loopiness of Green Acres. And it was funnier than most episodes of this series. I don't watch GA or Amos 'n Andy for realism. This one made me laugh a lot-a 9.
When he goes to her apartment, she tells him she can't go out because her new play opens next week and she has to rehearse with her co-star that evening in her apartment. She introduces Andy to him and he is allowed to watch them rehearse. Of course, it's a love scene-the "G" rated kind, of course, but Andy is still incredibly jealous and keeps interrupting them. Finally the man storms out saying he can't rehearse this way.
Cynthia tries to get Andy to accept her profession-as it is legitimate theater-and she is not fooling around with this guy at all. Andy comes to watch them rehearse for a week, but it still bristling about it. Especially when Kingfish tells him how if the play is a success, she'll be acting every night, every week for a year, or more, making love to this man on stage (the old-fashioned meaning, of course). Andy asks if there's a way out of it. Kingfish comes up with a scheme to get the guy to leave.
He pretends to be a newspaper theater critic and goes to tell the man how the play is such a dud it will ruin his career. He advises him to get out of it to save his career, by faking laryngitis. Somehow, even though opening night is hours away, he agrees.
The director/producer somehow agree to let Andy take over the lead, as he has memorized the lines from watching all those rehearsals (a fact that shocks us viewers-that he would truly memorize all the lines).
All of the above silliness is like a typical I Love Lucy plot-leave your logic-meter at the door to accept what you see. They are just trying to get to the "big" scene. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. I complain the most when the big scene itself is ruined by nobody doing anything logically. Once they got into the play, their actions and reactions were logical.
We see the theater with the cheapest-looking sets even including most high school productions. Andy, of course, has no idea where to go on stage, but he is trying, with the help of his friend Kingfish waiting in the wings to give him lines if he gets nervous.
But Andy turns the play into a cockamamie bunch of silliness, starting with when he enters for his first scene walking on stage at the rear, beyond the railing of the ship on which the show is set, thus appearing to be walking on the sea. Several times, Kingfish's hat is visible as he creeps along behind that same "railing." Later, Andy trying to carry his girlfriend (in the show) accidentally drops her "into the sea," and he needs Kingfish's visible help to get her back onto the right side of that railing.
I would argue that it was all more far-fetched than any of the loopiness of Green Acres. And it was funnier than most episodes of this series. I don't watch GA or Amos 'n Andy for realism. This one made me laugh a lot-a 9.
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