Susan Slept Here - this week at cinematheque

This week at Cinematheque catch the 1954 Frank Tashlin comedy Susan Slept Here starring Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds and Anne Francis.

A disillusioned Hollywood scriptwriter has a juvenile delinquent foisted upon him only to find himself reinvigorated and hustled into marriage. The sentimental aspects of the comedy are given some edge by Reynold's sexually emancipated tomboy, the often wryly Freudian dialogue, and the eroticism of the danced dream sequences.

Also on the program is Tashlin's 1943 Porky Pig's Feat. Porky Pig and Daffy Duck try to avoid paying their bill at 'The Broken Arms Hotel'. The manager has other ideas and is expressionistically transformed into a villain. Bugs Bunny makes an early appearance in one of the last black and white Looney Tunes.