BLAKE EDWARDS: A LOVE STORY IN 24 FRAMES: 2024 (PBS--Look for it on your PBS channel.) The documentary is the story of director, screenwriter and producer Blake Edwards, known for cinema classics such as Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses--Edwards quit drinking and smoking after that movie. He will probably be most remembered for the Pink Panther series with British actor Peter Sellers. Working with Sellers was difficult, and Edwards would frequently vow never to work with him again. However, in his later years, he admitted that working with Sellers was often irresistible saying, "We clicked on comedy and we were lucky we found each other because we both had so much respect for it.” Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio scripts before turning to producing and directing in television and films. From his days as an actor, he said, “I worked with the best directors – Ford, Wyler, Preminger – and learned a lot from them. But I wasn't a very cooperative actor. I was a spunky, smart-assed kid. Maybe even I was indicating that I wanted to give, not take, direction." Operation Petticoat was Edwards's first big-budget movie as a director. The film was produced by Grant's own production company, “Granart” Company, became the greatest box-office success of the decade for Universal, and made Edwards a recognized director. Edwards's second marriage, from 1969 until his death in 2010, was to Julie Andrews. She fell madly in love with him and they were married for 41 years. His son and daughter talk about their dad in the documentary and we see home movies of the family the couple created with her daughter from Andrews's previous marriage. In the 1970s the couple later adopted two Vietnamese daughters.  Underneath all that charisma, charm and talent that Blake Edwards had a depressive personality that plagued him throughout his career. Most of his movies had an autobiographical component to them, Including 10 and S.O.B. The movie contains many film clips of Edwards’s movies, plus comments by actors, friends and critics.  We loved the doc, hope you will too. GRADE A