Showing posts with label STEVE DUQUETTE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label STEVE DUQUETTE. Show all posts

Thursday, February 1, 2024

COURTING SLEEP WITH NANCY BERG

COUNTING SHEEP WITH NANCY BERG
?, some time in the fifties
Cockeyed #4, c. 1956
a: Steve DuQuette

Don't fall for the clickbait thumbnail like I did. Mention of her and the show comes seven minutes into the video. No clips of the show seem to exist. Nancy Berg was a model who often played “someone's girlfriend” in movies and maybe had one or two lines. (I can't think of a modern equivalent right now. Help me out.) She had a show every night, presumably during the signoff (back when TV had signoffs) for about five minutes, sort of a flipped version of The Continental, where she was in bed at the end of the night reading a book or eating a snack, doing what one would do before they go to sleep, accompanied by the metaphor of sheep jumping over the fence.