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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 306687" data-attributes="member: 7">I&#039;m digging this back up because.... 

On another website, which shall remain nameless, there&#039;s a member there staunchly defending Davis&#039; attempts at comedy. Their theory is that because she was able to give funny interviews and toss a funny line here and there. My reasoning is that &quot;funny&quot; people might not always be able to &quot;play&quot; funny. In the words of Bea Arthur, some &quot;marvelous actors&quot; sometimes become &quot;creatures from another planet&quot; when they&#039;re told they&#039;re playing comedy. As a performance, it doesn&#039;t come naturally for them. I often think about the old MAVERICK television series. As you may know, that series rotated James Garner and Jack Kelly as the star of each episode, with Garner&#039;s episodes having more humor, while Kelly&#039;s episodes were more dramatic. One producer of the show said that in real-life the men were the opposite of their on-screen portrayals: Garner was very serious, whereas Kelly was more of a goofball. 

In short... Not all &quot;funny&quot; people can &quot;play&quot; funny well and sometimes serious people become a comic before the cameras. And while I won&#039;t say Davis was horrific at comedy, it certainly wasn&#039;t her forte. She was more at home in the deep end, practically drowning in her tear-jerkers. 

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This discussion about Davis and her comedies came forth in a conversation about THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER coming to Blu-ray. That movie, along with THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D. (which is where the above picture comes from), is one of the few comedies Davis did at the start of the 1940s to &quot;shake things up&quot; at a time she was making such heavy-handed melodramas like THE LETTER and THE LITTLE FOXES. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 306687, member: 7"] [JUSTIFY]I'm digging this back up because.... On another website, which shall remain nameless, there's a member there staunchly defending Davis' attempts at comedy. Their theory is that because she was able to give funny interviews and toss a funny line here and there. My reasoning is that "funny" people might not always be able to "play" funny. In the words of Bea Arthur, some "marvelous actors" sometimes become "creatures from another planet" when they're told they're playing comedy. As a performance, it doesn't come naturally for them. I often think about the old MAVERICK television series. As you may know, that series rotated James Garner and Jack Kelly as the star of each episode, with Garner's episodes having more humor, while Kelly's episodes were more dramatic. One producer of the show said that in real-life the men were the opposite of their on-screen portrayals: Garner was very serious, whereas Kelly was more of a goofball. In short... Not all "funny" people can "play" funny well and sometimes serious people become a comic before the cameras. And while I won't say Davis was horrific at comedy, it certainly wasn't her forte. She was more at home in the deep end, practically drowning in her tear-jerkers. [ATTACH type="full"]33143[/ATTACH] This discussion about Davis and her comedies came forth in a conversation about THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER coming to Blu-ray. That movie, along with THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D. (which is where the above picture comes from), is one of the few comedies Davis did at the start of the 1940s to "shake things up" at a time she was making such heavy-handed melodramas like THE LETTER and THE LITTLE FOXES. [/JUSTIFY] [/QUOTE]

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