MASTERPIECE #3639

/// There were no cellphones in nineteen-fifty.
If there had been it would have been nifty.
So the second scene’s fake.
(Raphael did not make
it.) Appears Melcher’s done something shifty!

(The following comments refer only to the first painting):

/// Waiting for the Audition to be
in the play “Marty” shown on TV.
They did not get the parts.
Steiger broke people’s hearts
as the butcher back in ‘fifty-three.

/// And the actress here must understand
why her red lipstick was poorly planned.
Here she looks far too cute;
too much makeup, to boot.
So the role went to Nancy Marchand.

/// Two years later, they would reassign
major roles, but the film turned out fine.
Many Oscars were won,
and the “Best Actor” one
was awarded to Ernest Borgnine.