WAC Double Features: Big Hearted Herbert/Merry Frinks

WAC Double Features: Big Hearted Herbert/Merry FrinksTalented, sad eyed Aline MacMahon excelled in maternal and sisterly roles, giving them comedic grace or soulful earnestness as the situation required. Both qualities are showcased in this twinbill of MacMahon starrers. Blustery and domineering pop (Guy Kibbee) gets his comeuppance and goes from narrow minded patriarch to Big Hearted Herbert, thanks to his loving wife (MacMahon). In The Merry Frinks, the comic tale of a whack a doodle family that has

This ground-breaking situation `dramedy' was more about friendship than courtship - the special friendship shared by Eddie (Brandon Cruz) and his widowed father Tom (Bill Bixby)

off-again fianc�e

How does it all end

That vengeance belongs to Wu

for appearances

Based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson

But Hester's debt to Gerald is beyond measure

Film legends Norma Shearer

Oingo Boingo

now-glamorous Kitty accepts grande dame Bouccy Bouccicault's invitation for the weekend

falls in love with a woman who shocks the upper crust by daring to escape a wretched marriage

Her gangster ex-boyfriend Turk