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Of course you have. Early 30's through the 50's private eye stuff, all from Rex Stout, great reading if you haven't.I recently heard that there were two movies, circa 1940, "Meet Nero Wolfe" and another one, that were probably cranked out along with a zillion other movies. I hope to God Ed Wood didn't direct them.
My question is, how does one find, and manage to watch, stuff like this? I am very curious how the movies came out.
If you read the books and are as big a fan as I, then you would understand.
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Admired both characters. Remember when Wolfe tossed the Third International edition into the fireplace page by page?There was a short-lived TV series with Lee Horsley, a fine and handsome actor, as Archie but I never saw it.
clark
Called "The Golden Spiders" with Timothy Hutton as a surprisingly good and articulate Archie Goodwin. The actor who played Wolfe was rather nondescript and disappointingly underweight – both in physical size and characterization. Enjoyable nonetheless.
When I was in high school I was a big Nero Wolfe fan (I still am). I wrote to Rex Stout asking if there was a book of recipes he used in the novels. Well, the gentleman sent me a well worn paperback of Too Many Cooks (which had many recipes) with a nice note on the inside front cover.Damn, I wish I still had that book!
...that Stout actually wrote a book of Wolfe recipes.
Unfortunately my memory is far from Archie Goodwin one,
so I'm not 100% certain.
regards, gnat
It's called "The Nero Wolfe Cookbook" by Rex Stout and the editors of Viking Press, published in 1973. I have the book. In the Forward, Stout says "The only part of this book that is all mine is the excerpts from the stories which precede the recipes. All the dishes mentioned in 'Too Many Cooks' were cooked twice – some three times or more – by the late Sheila Hibben and me."A further note from Nero Wolfe states "I beg you not to entrust these dishes to your cook unless he is an artist. Cook them yourself, and only for an occasion that is worthy of them."
There are two additional Notes, one from Archie Goodwin and the other from Fritz Brenner (Wolfe's resident chef).
Some excellent recipes by the way. In the mood for shad roe mousse Pocahontas, hedgehog omelet, or perhaps a fig souffle? Then this is a must have!
Very entertaining with the vignettes from his stories preceding the actual recipes.
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