GAL OF ME

ALL OF ME (1984)
dir: Carl Reiner

GAL OF ME
MAD #255, June 1985
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

Roger Cobb (Steve Martin) is a lawyer whose firm is handling the estate of Edwina Cutwater (Lily Tomlin), a rich woman on her last legs. She believes in reincarnation and has arranged that when she dies, her soul will go into the body of her groundskeeper's daughter Terry (Victoria Tennant). Through an accident, the bowl containing dwina's soul flies out the window and lands on Roger, putting her soul into his body instead. He has to function with her inside his body without anybody knowing, and she has to put on the act as well, acting like him.

Here we're introduced to the cast which also includes Peggy Schuyler (Madolyn Smith), Ty (Jason Bernard), and the Swami (Richard Libertini).The law firm is called Schuyler Mifflin

Shirley Booth was an actress in Come Back, Little Sheba.

(The tombstones are Martin and Tomlin's other movies)

Much of the comedy in the movie comes from Steve Martin talking to himself and acting feminine when he's not supposed to, which doesn't translate as well into print, and most of which takes place in the courtroom, which they avoid by choice. This was not the best Steve Martin movie for them to do but it had been the only one up to then that wasn't either an out-and-out comedy or a parody itself (Pennies from Heaven wasn't really in MAD's wheelhouse)


The dog doesn't “talk” in the movie but has a big enough role for them to use it, and I guess they needed someone to make asides.