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Edie McClurg. Actress: Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, McClurg began her performing career at age five with the Kansas City Rhythm Kids. She retired when the dance teacher was arrested on a morals charge for "dating" the tall and lissome, yet underage, star dancer in the troupe.
- January 1, 1
- 2 min
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- The Inspiration
- The Players
- Del’s Reading Material
- Trouble at Home?
- Real Heart and Drama
- Contrack Railroad
- That’S A Lot of Cash, Neal
- They’Re The Modern Stone-Age Family
- Reaching Out to A Friend
Just as Hughes’ “She’s Having a Baby” was loosely based on his time as a young husband whose wife was expecting a child, “PTA” was inspired by Hughes’ experience when he was working as an advertising copywriter for Leo Burnett in Chicago. After making a presentation in New York City on a Wednesday morning, Hughes hoped to make it back to Chicago on...
That co-worker is played by Lyman Ward, who was Ferris’ father in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” A number of other Hughes regulars appear in “PTA,” including the great Edie McClurg, who was Ed Rooney’s receptionist in “Ferris” and appears here as the rental car agent who endures Neal’s f-bomb rant, learns he has thrown away his rental agreement and de...
When Neal spots Del in the airport in New York, Del is reading what appears to be a salacious paperback, titled “The Canadian Mounted.” In “Deadpool 2,” the title character, played by Candy’s fellow Canadian Ryan Reynolds (who is working on a documentary about Candy), is seen reading the same paperback in the same, apparently near-sighted manner.
In the original script for “PTA,” it was made more evident that Susan suspected Neal might be having an affair, what with him being on the road so often and seemingly a bit distant, geographically and emotionally. It’s still implied in the final cut; at one point when Neal calls, Susan says, “What’s going on, Neal?” and there’s another scene in whi...
“Planes, Trains and Automobiles” becomes something more than a great but light comedy in the scene where Neal unloads on Del, ranting: “Didn’t you notice on the plane, when you started talking, eventually I started reading the vomit bag? Didn’t that give you some sort of clue, like maybe this guy’s not enjoying it? You know, everything is not an an...
Because “PTA” wasn’t exactly friendly to the transportation industry, the filmmakers had to use fictional company names. For instance, the railroad is called “Contrack,” a combination of “Conrail” and “Amtrak.”
Before Neal and Del are robbed in the middle of the night, Neal had more than $700 in his wallet. Why so much cash, Neal? No wonder Susan was suspicious about your activities!
On the bus, Del leads a singalong to the theme from “The Flintstones.” In the “Beach Games” episode of “The Office” 20 years later, the Dunder-Mifflin gang sings the “Flintstones” theme on a bus. A tribute? We’d like to think so.
On a number of occasions during their misadventures, Neal shakes his head, sighs — and rushes over to help Del with that ridiculous and utterly unnecessary trunk. This is foreshadowing of that iconic moment after Del tells Neal, “I don’t have a home. Marie’s been dead for eight years,” and Neal helps Del carry that case right down the middle of the...
A fucking Datsun, a fucking Toyota, a fucking Mustang, a fucking Buick! Four fucking wheels and a seat! Car Rental Agent : I really don't care for the way you're speaking to me. Neal : And I really don't care for the way your company left me in the middle of fucking nowhere with fucking keys to a fucking car that isn't fucking there.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes and starring Steve Martin and John Candy, with supporting roles by Laila Robins and Michael McKean. It tells the story of Neal, a high-strung marketing executive, and Del, a good-hearted but ...
- It's based on a true story. The action of Planes, Trains and Automobiles occurs over the course of just three days. And, according to Kirk Honeycutt's John Hughes: A Life in Film, three days is also how long it took writer-director John Hughes to pen the movie's screenplay.
- John Hughes gave away Planes, Trains and Automobiles ... and then took it back. While John Hughes could write a screenplay with mind-boggling speed, directing a movie took him as long as it takes most everybody else.
- The movie was almost as long as the characters' journey. Planes, Trains and Automobiles runs 93 minutes, and in that time, audiences feel every bit of Neal and Del's frustration as they try to get back to Chicago.
- There's a lot of footage cut from Planes, Trains and Automobiles. As Planes, Trains and Automobiles entered production with a 145-page script and a director adamant on shooting every word, a lot of material wound up excised from the final, theatrical cut of the movie.
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Nov 22, 2017 · Here are some facts about the film that are not pillows. 1. Planes, Trains and Automobiles was inspired by John Hughes’s own hellish trip from New York City to Chicago. Before he became a ...
Edie McClurg (born July 23, 1945) is an American actress and comedian. She has played supporting roles in the films Carrie (1976), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988), and bit parts in Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980), Mr. Mom (1983) Back to School (1986), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), A River Runs Through It (1992), Natural Born Killers (1994 ...
