Comments on: One of the Invisible Professions on Screen

By: Sprachferien London

Sprachferien London — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:50:40 +0000

Shadow of Doubt is one of my all time favorite movies! Thanks for the nice posting!

By: moirafinnie

moirafinnie — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:57:37 +0000

Hi Pam,
Thanks for the correction. I guess now we know why Joan Blondell was more fun than Greer?

By: Pam

Pam — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 07:10:00 +0000

Enjoyed your article and pie chart. However, would like to point out that Greer Garson is the only librarian in Adventure. Her friend Helen is a secretary and comes to pick her up after work since they are roomies.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:13:45 +0000

will the movie called “goodmorning Miss Dove” with Jennifer Jones & Robert Stack be shown on TMC soon?

By: TCM’s Classic Movie Blog

TCM’s Classic Movie Blog — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:17:19 +0000

[...] previously touched on in a posting about librarians in this blog , if the movies were to be believed, a disproportionate number of people in the United States from [...]

By: moirafinnie

moirafinnie — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:33:51 +0000

UPDATE: I've just noticed that the rarely seen film about free speech in American society mentioned in this blog, Storm Center, with Bette Davis & Brian Keith is scheduled on TCM on Friday, Nov. 28, 2008 at 7:30AM ET. I hope that you'll have a chance to see it and comment on it. Thank you.

By: srijita

srijita — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:15:44 +0000

Really I enjoyed your pie presentation . My favorite film is librarian.I feel this is a GREAT movie!

By: Ken Loar

Ken Loar — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:40:22 +0000

Not wanting to take anything from your look at an often ignored profession, what about that most forgotten of profession. The oldest profession. Or is it the second oldest? Regardless, it seems, THE FARMER gets the short-end of the stick, yet again. Without them, would there have been a FIELD OF DREAMS, PLACES IN THE HEART, OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (hey, he was plowing at the beginning and if not for the raid on his farm, he might have been one of those nameless inductees from some city or quite possible let the war go by without joining in). So often it is the farmer who is the victim that gets the lawyer or the cowboy motivated to make a worthwhile stand. Or turning their back on their farm for other pursuits (floozies are often the targets).

So the next time TOBACCO ROAD comes on, you will see life would have been so much better if the Lester’s had put as much INTO their farming as they did AVOIDING the farming.

By: Kyle In Hollywood

Kyle In Hollywood — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:14:45 +0000

Bill Bendix, Bill Frawley, “Beaney” Bacon and me? Not a bad quartet of “beer pullers”, I guess. But I’ll have to bone-up on bar tricks involving olives to reach their greatness.

Great job on the division of film-lore labor.

As to the guardians of the stacks, I have to add the helpful librarian Macauley Connor meets in “The Philadelphia Story”.

“What is thee wish?”

Kyle (“Dost thou have a Washroom?”) In Hollywood

By: jadeam

jadeam — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:18:36 +0000

One of my favorite films involving librarians is the 1978 comedy Foul Play. Goldie Hawn is a ‘shy San Francisco librarian’ and some of the action takes place in the library. In addition to Goldie and a wacky co-worker, there is an older,stereotypical librarian whose research finds the clue to solving the plot’s main mystery, a picture of main members of the ‘tax the churches league,’ if I remember correctly.