Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town is special.
If you are Canadian, this
is a must-see as it is a proud part of our heritage. If you are not, please
consider watching as it is great family viewing. Colin and I have seen a copy and it is
delightful, funny, and surprising.
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| Colin and Deb on set. |
Sunshine Sketches
was written by Stephen Leacock in 1912. Mr. Leacock was a humourist and writer of fiction who was
born in Hampshire, England in 1869. He came to Canada with his family at the
age of six and was educated among other schools at the prestigious Upper Canada
College in Toronto and the University of Chicago where he received a doctorate
in political science and political economy. He soon became disillusioned with
politics (smart lad) and turned to writing, with fiction and humour a
specialty. He started out his literary career writing short stories that were
published in magazines in Canada and the U.S. and became very popular all over
the world. Around 1911 it was said that more people had heard of Stephen
Leacock than had heard of Canada. Still true today!!! :-)
Between 1915 and 1925, he
was the most popular humourist in the world.
Groucho Marx and Jack
Benny were among his biggest fans. He was a huge influence on them when they
were young vaudevillians and fifty years after first reading him they still
considered him one of their favourite comic writers.
Sunshine Sketches
was shot in the thinly-disguised town of Mariposa, a small town in Ontario that
Leacock was all too familiar with. The story is based on fact and fiction or, I
should say, fact and embellishment.
This production is a
virtual who’s who of Canadian talent, with the great Gordon Pinsent at the
helm. We are proud of it and wanted to share. Please consider spending some
time with us in this charming little town.
Barbara: I saw the
trailer for this just the other night and it looks fabulous! Beautifully shot
and with some great stars (including our dear Deb and Colin). I’m so glad you
remembered to remind us, Deb—because TV shows, especially Canadian ones, tend
to fall through the cracks. I really want to catch this one!
We couldn’t get the trailer
to embed here, but if you go to this link, you can see a really cute (and not too long) making-of doc.
