Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Addicted to Love, was Did you see Mighty Joe Young
From: "Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:54:54 -0800

Mark,

The mother was Maureen Stapleton and both she and Meg Ryan had Leicas - or
maybe it was the same one. I always figured it was because the prop master
was planning on keeping it after the film was over. Margaret Sullivan was an
actress in the 1940s who was known for having an affair with Jimmy Stewart.

Bryan

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Addicted to Love, was Did you see Mighty Joe Young


>Paul Klingaman wrote:
>>
>> Didn't see Mighty Joe, but did anyone happen to catch "Addicted to
>> Love?"  Throughout the movie, Meg Ryan's character sports an M6, taking
>> pictures of her affections.  I thought Meg was sexy in "When Harry Met
>> Sally", but YEESH with a Leica up to her eye!
>>
>Again it was not Meg Ryan with the M6 in that movie it was her mother
>played by Margaret Sullivan. How you could confuse Meg with Margaret is
>Freudian to the max one might think.
>The use of the camera obscura technique sure turned my head around?!
>Mark Rabiner