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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 266135" data-attributes="member: 7">Your reasoning is certainly understandable, and it is even clearer now that you have clarified. I would certainly agree that Ann Sothern is a gifted and charming comedienne. I especially like her in the MAISIE films, a B-comedy series of films producers by MGM during the forties. Those movies play like longer, big-screen versions of sitcom episodes. Ann's beautiful and very funny. I've seen tidbits of PRIVATE SECRETARY and THE ANN SOTHER SHOW via YouTube, but nothing too exclusive. The prints I've seen are usually pretty bad ones that have been roughed up a lot over the years. I am most familiar with Ann as a guest star on THE LUCY SHOW in the sixties, a time when she came in as Lucy Carmichael's old friend The Countess. She was hilarious on that show, and no wonder the producers thought Ann would have been a good replacement for Vivian Vance as Lucy's co-star after Vance decided to leave the show. Apparently, there was some squabble over Ann receiving equal billing with Lucy (which she did really deserve), and Ann never became a regular on the program. [ATTACH=full]26448[/ATTACH] I think I hover towards Eve Arden because of her role in WE'RE NOT MARRIED, the 1952 anthology comedy about several couples finding out they are not legally wed. It featured her as a the wife of Paul Douglas in a vignette about a man and his wife that had ran of things to talk to one another about long ago. She was funny in the little bit, and I always remember her in that movie. I also think of Eve in MILDRED PIERCE, the 1945 noirish melodrama that won Joan Crawford her only Oscar, where she played Crawford's sarcastic friend that runs one of her diners. Eve was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for that performance. Of course, I like how Eve Arden turned up in the 1978 movie version of GREASE, where she plays Principal McGee, which kind of reads like a spin on her Miss Brooks role. On the surface, I think I just prefer Eve Arden's voice over Ann Sothern's. I know that is sort of shallow, but it's the truth. And I always laugh out loud at Lucy and Ethel's discovery of Eve Arden on that funny I LOVE LUCY episode. Lucy and Eve had co-starred together in STAGE DOOR, the 1937 drama when they were both under contract to RKO. "Neither, that's Eve Arden." "You touched her!" [ATTACH=full]26449[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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