"The fog comes in on little cat's feet," wrote Carl Sandburg."It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on."
Fog was a heavy presence in John Huston's film of "The Maltese Falcon," set in San Francisco, but the film that used the dense mist to greatest effect was "Footsteps in the Fog," an almost forgotten picture in which Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons prowled treacherously thru Victorian London's pea soup.
The Gershwins' song "A Foggy Day," written for the musical "Damsel in Distress," was sung first, and memorably, by Fred Astaire, but the recording we listen to most often is the duet by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald ("Ella and Lu-lee," as some sweet children once called them).
Last word to feline fancier Jurgen Gothe, who liked to turn Sandburg's line around, and say, "The cat comes in on little fog feet."
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