More Uncle Wiggily
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 07 Dec 1998 11:48:31 +1100
Fate must have decreed this ... I sat down to watch TV yesterday and was
delighted to find that the cable company had accidentally unscrambled all
the channels we're not supposed to get (: Sitting down for my freebie I
watched a 1954 Gene Kelly-Natalie Wood movie called `Marjorie Morningstar'
(plot: young aspiring actress is instead caught in the drudgery of
housewifery)
Anyhow, I was peripherally watching this, and the Natalie Wood character
injures her finger during a play rehearsal. She goes over to Gene Kelly who
tests her finger in a movielike way and comisserates. `Yeah ...' she
replies. `Uncle Wiggily ...' !
Now, what year was Uncle Wiggily the story? I'm thinking now that to
describe a hurt limb in the 50's as an `Uncle Wiggily' may have been a
stock phrase. Anyone got any relatives of that vintage they could check
that out with? Either that or the inspiration came directly from this movie
- which is more exciting but less likely. The movie, by the way, had
slightly Glassy overtones to it - Natalie Wood was a *sort* of Franny
character but I'm probably reading too much into it.
Camille
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