A Danish "Basket" :)

Hello Everyone,

In the midst of this turbulent time of social distancing, working from home and panic buying, here's a little diversion from Denmark:

This is the cool cover of the Danish program for the episodic 1956 Mexican film Canasta de Cuentos Mexicanos, or, A Basket of Mexican Tales. As you can see, Jack Kelly (with co-star Mari Blanchard) is featured prominently on the cover. Strangely though, Ms. Blanchard gets top billing above the photo, but JK's name is a no-show.

He is mentioned in the cast list, albeit with sixth billing:

There are two more pix of JK in the section of  the program about his episode in the film ("Kurven" or "The Basket"):

The synopsis (roughly translated via Google) reads:

"Gladys and Eddie Winthrop are vacationing in Mexico. They buy some inexpensive but beautiful hand-woven baskets and take them home to New York. A chocolate maker sees one of the baskets and decides it would make excellent packaging for his goods. He places a large order for baskets with the Winthrops. They immediately return to Mexico to start production. However, they encounter an unexpected obstacle: the Indian from whom they purchased the original baskets explains that while he's not interested in becoming wealthy, the more baskets he and his family weave, the more it will cost the Winthrops because of the detailed work involved. The Winthrops realize their dream of making a quick profit from cheap labor isn't viable and reluctantly return to New York. Eddie gets a clerk job and Gladys returns the mink coat she bought thinking the basket money would pay for it."

Well, I hope this brightened your day a bit. Please stay tuned for more basketsful of fun with TDS. :)