Thursday, February 06, 2025

My Friend Irma's Government Work-1952


If MY FRIEND IRMA is remembered at all these days, it's usually only as the first movie to feature Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. In its day, though, MY FRIEND IRMA was a minor phenomenon, appearing on radio, in films, on TV, in newspaper comics, and in comic books, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Dan DeCarlo. Irma--played in live action by Marie Wilson--was the ditziest of all dumb blondes, and yet, in 1952, the US Treasury Department opted to take advantage of her popularity!