Re: The Ameche -- a phone

Posted by ESC on October 12, 2004

In Reply to: Re: Phrase posted by James Briggs on October 12, 2004

: : What is the meaning of "an Amechie, as in talk on" ?

: Don Ameche was a famous interwar and post war film star. Could he have something to do with the phrase? I don't know, but others may.

Trivia for
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
After the film was released, the telephone was commonly called the "Ameche", a slang term referring to actor Don Ameche who played the telephone's inventor. This association is explained in the film "Ball of Fire" (1941), showing the term was still in use two years after the release of the original film.

From The Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031981/ Accessed October 12, 2004.