
TCM is showing Bells Are Ringing tomorrow afternoon — at 12:15 PM on my TV. This is the 1960 film with Dean Martin and Judy Holliday based on the Broadway show by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne. If you've never seen it, it's worth watching just to see Judy Holliday, a wonderful actress who died way too young.
And if you're a fan of great cartoon voice actors, see if you can spot all the times in which Paul Frees and June Foray are heard in the film. They're most of the voices heard on the phone and they redubbed a couple of actors singing in the "Drop That Name" number. Also, the opening narration was done by Shep Menken, a very fine voicer of cartoons who was, among other roles, Clyde Crashcup on The Alvin Show and the bird in the Western Airlines commercial who popularized the phrase, "It's the only way to fly."
By the way: I no longer use a TiVo and from what I can tell, not many people do. I mourn its obsolescence so when I recommend TV programs here, I'm going to continue to use the subject line, "Set the TiVo!" You don't have to actually set a TiVo and as time goes by, fewer and fewer of you will. But mine served me well.