“I used to hike a lot through the woods, and I’d always take this girl with me,” said Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 1936, opposite Jean Arthur’s sneaky, conniving two-faced Mary. Enjoy the rest of Mr. Deeds’ romantic speech in this one-minute clip.
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“Pet trees,” he said.
Right then, in that touching moment, he made an imaginary girl become real, but neither of them knew it.
I’ve done it, and knew it. We had a good time. Then she went away and I got another imaginary girl.
Longfellow sounds like a Balsamean-kinda’ guy.
This post is for the laughter it gets in an office 26 miles from here. If anyone else enjoyed it, get the movie. It’s fun.
The Balsamean 