Just discovered a website offering free episodes of "The Life of Riley."

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. I've never forgiven Bendix

for his hideous portrayal of Babe Ruth in The Babe Ruth Story (1948). For that matter, I can't forgive anyone associated with the movie or with Enterprise Studios, especially Bob Consodine, a well-known hack with Hearst Newspapers,who wrote the screenplay.

I'd wager the main reason Bendix was chosen for the role was his resemblance to the rotund Ruth of the 1930s and beyond, and his baseball fandom. (In WWII movies, he was always the guy who wondered how the Brooklyn Dodgers were doing as he sat in a foxhole somewhere in the southwest Pacific.)