Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman
Herbie Goes Bananas is a comedy starring Cloris Leachman and Charles Martin Smith in a story about a Volkswagen Beetle car with a mind of its own and its owners getting caught up in a plot to steal Inca gold, while en route to Brazil. Herbie Goes Bananas was directed by Vincent McEveety in 1980.
Cloris Leachman is a marvelous actress and puts this episode a cut above many others in this series. Her reactions to surprising events—from the water that shoots out of her faucet to the sudden angry passion of her mysterious visitor—seem natural and unrehearsed. She also has an unaffected theatricality; notice the elegant position of her arm as she holds up a negative to the light. The script has one virtue: the dialogue is invariably convincing. Leachman’s character always sounds as a real person would when faced with inexplicable occurrences. Otherwise the story is flat and predictable.
News and opinions about TV actress Cloris Leachman. According to Wikipedia: Cloris Leachman is an Academy Award, nine-time Emmy and Golden Globe winning American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards?more than any other female performer in history?and one Daytime Emmy Award.
Cloris Leachman is big time. She is an “Academy Award, nine-time Emmy and Golden Globe winning American actress” who has been on stage, in films and on the TV. She has won 8 Emmy Awards (which BTW is more than any other female performer, according to Wikipedia) and one Daytime Emmy Award.
Fred MacMurray is engaging as the well-meaning but neglectful family man. Cloris Leachman is funny as the befuddled wife and mother, and Harry Morgan is hilarious as the Angel.
Charley & The Angel was Fred MacMurray’s last movie (with the exception of appearing in a made-for-TV movie drama in 1978 on ABC TV). The movie also features a voice-over performed by Hal Peary (radio’s “Great Throckmorton Gildersleeve”) as the voice of a kids’ radio show host.
Cloris chose not to kill Joan Collins when Joannie had an affair with her husband. Suffice it to say, Cloris Leachman is the reason and the cause of Dynasty.
Well, not in general, but too old to do eight shows a week. Even though Brooks himself is almost 81, he thinks the 81-year-old Leachman might hurt herself if she reprises the Frau Blucher role in the upcoming Broadway musical version of Young Frankenstein.
