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Giving him the the thermometer. >> bar bra stanwyck in "lady eve" was one of the best come meed giving performances of all time when she's got the mirror. really funny. >> not just this brilliant dialogue, lease also the incredible physical comedy. it's a wonderful balance of low comedy and high comedy and life is both, isn't it? >> sturgess had a stretch during the 1940s where he turned out hit after hit after hit. it's an unprecedented streak of really quality films. >> alfred hitchcock. >> hitchcock began working in the industry as an art director at the ufa studios in berlin where he got t...

I'll just look around. >> richard curtis said he wrote it with me in mind and i love when writers say that. i don't care if it's true. it's hard to find really great original material that hold the real performance and the comedy and the physical comedy. and some thread of love that you're trying to accomplish. >> i'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy. asking him to love her. >> romantic comedy is a genre that i love. i think i was really lucky that they were making a big resurgence at a time when i was at the ready. >> the romantic comedy gets its jump start. and you have a number o...

Life could be. >> they're here. >> all right. >> laverne and this is shirley. she's yours as you can see. >> nice to meet you richie. >> my pleasure. >> when they made a guest appearance, one of the camera men said look at this two shot. that's a series. ♪ >> tuesday night between 8:00 and 9:00 is called the death spot. death to my program that dares to go head on against happy days and laverne and shirley. >> it's one of the few sitcoms that ever debuted as number one. >> the absolute top number one show this season is laverene and shirley. >> a harmless but blameless exercise in silliness....

There's very few two female comedy duos. that an was revolutionary -- that was revolutionary. >> pitts and todd dealt with more contemporary subjects than their peers. they wandered into romantic attraction, and you could see in some cases manipulating men on dates, or using beauty. it's really subject matter that wandered far afield from what everyone else was doing. >> is your name fred heel? >> no, ted healy is the name. >> ted healy, he had three stooges he would berate. larry fine, curly howard, moe howard, but he was a severe alcoholic. and when you're on the stage doing physical comedy,...

>> is your name fred heel? >> no, ted healy is the name. >> ted healy, he had three stooges he would berate. larry fine, curly howard, moe howard, but he was a severe alcoholic. and when you're on the stage doing physical comedy, your comedy might get much more violent. so when they got offers to do solo shorts, moe howard realized we can't work with this guy so they went out on their own. >> calling dr. howard, dr. fine, dr. howard. >> it took people's minds off their real troubles.