Wetlook World Forum

The interesting thing about this actress is, when I checked her imdb profile, I see that the character she plays in this film (Lucy Gibbs) is a role that she apparently reprised in a sequel film that she later made in the same year, called "The McGuerins from Brooklyn"....and I have that sequel movie....cos that has one of the best classic wetlook scenes of all time...where Arline Judge is in a hotel lobby, and she falls backwards into a pond in the lobby of the hotel, in her business suit, stockings and heels. Now that scene is a classic (I recently re-taped a fresh copy of that film from TCM too). So...the sequel movie had great wetlook slapstick too.

Sometimes I feel like Nicolas Cage (from National Treasure)...when I find something very old from the past....that nobody ever knew existed or had reported on before......e.g. this week I found a "Nancy Drew" (Pamela Sue Martin) wetlook scene from 1977 that nobody ever had or reported before.....i.e. in the 2nd season episode called "The Mystery of the Hollywood Phantom - pt1", Pamela falls into the stage pool on a Universal Studios tour, wearing a Linda Evans style blue satin dress, pantyhose and heels, and we see some great shots of Pamela in the clinging wet satin dress as she gets out of the pool. I had never seen that episode before, cos the re-runs on tv in the past only showed episodes from Season one of that series...and they were not re-airing the 2nd season episodes.....so that scene has remained unknown and unseen for 30 years.....until recently...when they just came out with a DVD box set of Season 2 epsiodes...which I ordered....cos a pantyhose forum was talking about that scene...and it peaked my curiosity...cos I was amazed that nobody had ever mentioned or sent in that scene to me in 30 years. Anyway....I have the scene on DVD now...and it is a long lost gem.

Likewise....I finally tracked down a copy last month of the 1944 movie "San Diego, I Love You"....and that movie has been on my "Most Wanted" list for 18 years....ever since Tony Keller from Switzerland mentioned it in his 1990 book "The Wetlook Guide to movies". As some of you may know...before we had the internet, in the early 1990's, Tony from Switzerland (with help from Roger from Aquantics) published a 50 page book called "The Wetlook TV Guide"...and Tony listed many old wetlook scenes from old movies that I had never heard of or seen. I spent 10 years tracking down and collecting most of those movies....but I could never find the 1944 movie "San Diego, I Love You".....which Tony wrote about. Anyway....I found a collector in Canada who had this film...and he sent me a DVDr copy this week...and the wetlook scene with Louise Albritton in this film is a great scene too.

This is the fun for me....i.e. the thrill of the chase...and searching for hard to find movies. Cos it is no fun at all....to collect common scenes or modern scenes and new movies or tv series....  that everybody can easily see on tv. Wetlook collecting is like stamp or coin collecting....i.e. the common or new things really have little value or interest....and the real treasures are when you uncover old things that nobody knew about, or have not been seen in 50 years.

My greatest unresolved mystery still remains unsolved though......although I have been able to solve half of the puzzle....i.e. what scene does this film come from......cos I would love to capture this scene....

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I know half of the answer.....i.e. I know who the guy is...cos I posted a message to the TCM channel forums...asking for their help in identifying the girl or the movie...and nobody could identify the girl or the film....but they all said that the guy was an actor called PAUL HARVEY (not the radio announcer...but the 1930's to 50's actor).  If I could identify the girl...then by triangulation I can do a Google search and find what film that appeared in together. But without the girls name...it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. So far...I have bought about 12-15 movies from Amazon and iOffer.com and Ebay where Paul Harvey was in those films...and no luck so far....and he made about 100 films....so I cannot seem to nail this one yet.

MK