Acteurist oeuvre-view – Dorothy McGuire – Part 4: GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT (1947) and MOTHER DIDN’T TELL ME (1950)

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In this Dorothy McGuire Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, a couple of disparate films: Elia Kazan’s anti-semitism exposé drama, Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), and a marital comedy about the hardships of being a doctor’s wife, Mother Didn’t Tell Me (1950). We discuss the qualities that McGuire brings to her most problematic character yet and that help make the character a possible audience identification figure for the audience. And then we discuss the “secret feminism” of Mother Didn’t Tell Me‘s portrayal of the life of a middle-class housewife who finds herself “abandoned” by her husband and unable to share his professional life. Elise expresses admiration of McGuire’s ability to whisper her way through a fight scene. From open didacticism to secret feminism: this episode has it all! 

 

Time Codes:

0h 0m 45s:        GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT (1947 [dir. Elia Kazan]

0h 31m 42s:      MOTHER DIDN’T TELL ME (1950) [dir. Claude Binyon]

 

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* Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again”

* Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project! 

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March Special Subject – March Minnelli Madness – THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (1954); THE COBWEB (1955); SOME CAME RUNNING (1958); and HOME FROM THE HILL (1960)

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It’s March Minnelli Madness as we watch three melodramas directed by Vincente Minelli, plus one nightmarish comedy: The Long, Long Trailer (1954), starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; The Cobweb (1955), starring Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall (among other big names); Some Came Running (1958), based on the novel by James Jones and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine; and Home from the Hill (1960), starring Robert Mitchum as an ironic patriarch and a curiously radiant George Peppard as his illegitimate son. We talk about Minnelli as a scrutinizer of masculinity and sexual mores, about certain auteurist concerns that we discover on the fly, and about Minnelli’s version of 1950s consumer culture satire. Then, in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we discuss the Minnelli melodrama-adjacent From Here to Eternity (1953), based on James Jones’s first and less eccentric novel, with Frank Sinatra in a very different role. 

[We regret to report that the beginning of our conversation re: Home From the Hill somehow got permanently deleted by the cat, so you will note that it picks up in medias res – right after we had exulted in the casting coup of securing Robert Mitchum’s services as an ultra-ironized Big Daddy (“let’s just … let that pass…”) and marvelled at George Peppard’s uncommon facility for conveying unadorned goodness (“I got a wet pup here!”) Sorry about that, folks. I guess that just gives us another reason to revisit the film!] 

 

Time Codes:

0h 0m 45s:        THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (1954) [dir. Vincente Minnelli]

0h 26m 52s:      THE COBWEB (1955) [dir. Vincente Minnelli]

0h 41m 29s:      SOME CAME RUNNING (1958) [dir. Vincente Minnelli]

1h 17m 08s:      HOME FROM THE HILL (1960) [dir. Vincente Minnelli] (truncated by technical glitch)

1h 27m 47s:      Fear & Moviegoing In Toronto – FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) by Fred Zinnemann

 

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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring

* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again”

* Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project! 

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – 20th Century Fox – 1942: FOOTLIGHT SERNADE and SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES + Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto

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Our Fox 1942 episode explores two different modes of Betty Grable Fox musical (both choreographed by Astaire collaborator Hermes Pan) that draw on the Hollywood musical modes established in the 1930s:in black and white, the Warneresque backstager Footlight Serenade, shot by Lee Garmes; and the Technicolor farce Springtime in the Rockies, with comic support by Edward Everett Horton and Carmen Miranda, whose eccentric comedic styles confront one another and produce what might be chemistry.

Elise comes around a little on Betty Grable, whose persona we discuss, along with the covert feminism of Footlight Serenade‘s plot. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we Siskel and Ebert Claudia von Alemann’s feminist filmic essay Blind Spot (1981), but agree that the sandwich-eating and pickle-refusing scenes are great. 

 

Time Codes:

0h 00m 45s:      FOOTLIGHT SERENADE [dir. Gregory Ratoff]

0h 48m 11s:      SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES [dir. Irving Cummings]

1h 15m 19s:      Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto: Blind Spot (1981) by Claudia von Alemann

 

Studio Film Capsules provided by The Films of Twentieth Century-Fox by Aubrey Solomon and Tony Thomas

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

                                   

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* Read Elise’s latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating.

* Check out Dave’s new Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project! 

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Acteurist oeuvre-view – Dorothy McGuire – Part 3: CLAUDIA AND DAVID (1946) and TILL THE END OF TIME (1946) + Fear & Moviegoing In Toronto

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In this week’s Acteurist Oeuvre-view, we look at two very different Dorothy McGuire movies from 1946 that share a striking adultness: Claudia and David (directed by Walter Lang), a marital comedy that’s surprisingly frank about infidelity, and Till the End of Time (directed by Edward Dmytryk), a “post-war readjustment” movie that’s surprisingly frank about sexuality in general, as well as American alienation and ennui. We make our first real stab at describing the essential qualities McGuire brings to daffy ingenue and jaded older woman roles alike. And speaking of alienation and ennui, in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto we discuss another experimental narrative film by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Millennium Mambo (2001). 

 

Time Codes:

0h 0m 45s:        CLAUDIA AND DAVID (1946) [dir. Walter Lang]

0h 33m 33s:      TILL THE END OF TIME (1946) [dir. Edward Dmytryk]

1h 19m 00s:      Fear & Moviegoing In Toronto – MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001) by Hou Hsiao-hsien

 

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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring

* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again”

* Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project! 

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1942: KINGS ROW and JUKE GIRL + Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto

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In this very special Warners 1942 episode we discuss two Dave faves, both starring (and romantically pairing) Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan, that push against the restrictions of the Production Code: Sam Wood’s Peyton Place/Twin Peaks forerunner, Kings Row, and Curtis Bernhardt’s noirish agrarian socialist drama, Juke Girl. We dive deep into Kings Rows’ Freud-and-Emerson-steeped advocacy of a less repressed and hypocritical society and Juke GIrl’s utopic/dystopic vision of humanity. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we have a very disparate group of films this week: Flowers of Shanghai (1998), One False Move (1992), and Brief Encounter (1945), which Elise compares to Jeanne Dielman (although – spoilers – Brief Encounter does have a happier ending). 

Time Codes:

0h 00m 45s:      KINGS ROW [dir. Same Wood]

0h 55m 28s:      JUKE GIRL [dir. Curtis Bernhardt]

1h 31m 31s:      Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto: Flowers of Shanghai (1998) by Hou Hsiao-hsien; One False Move (1991) by Carl Franklin & Brief Encounter (1945) by David Lean

 

Studio Film Capsules provided by The Warner Brothers Story by Clive Hirschhorn

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

                                   

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* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise’s latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating.

* Check out Dave’s new Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project! 

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Acteurist oeuvre-view – Dorothy McGuire – Part 2: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (1945) and THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1946) + FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO – Perpetratin’ Realism series at TIFF Lightbox

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In this week’s Dorothy McGuire Acteurist Oeuvre-view, two very different roles for our subject: in Elia Kazan’s first film, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), an imperfect mother in a difficult relationship with her protagonist-daughter; and in Robert Siodmak’s Gothic noir, The Spiral Staircase, (1946) a mute girl targeted by a eugenicist killer. We discuss the unique qualities McGuire brings to what could be an unsympathetic role in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and the intricacies of that movie’s family relationships. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we look at Set It Off, F. Gary Gray’s 1996 heist movie about four women who start robbing banks together, starring Jada Pinkett and Queen Latifah. 

Time Codes:

0h 0m 45s:        A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (1945) [dir. Elia Kazan]

0h 46m 31s:      THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1946) [dir. Robert Siodmak]

1h 07m 36s:      FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO – Perpetratin’ Realism series at TIFF Lightbox – SET IT OFF (1996) directed by F. Gary Gray

 

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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring

* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again”

* Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project! 

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Valentine’s Day 2023 – KISS ME GOODBYE (1982) and MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940) + FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO – TIFF Lightbox – Love Will Tear Us Apart Series

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Our Valentine’s Day 2023 episode is all about loves from the past who have inconveniently returned. In My Favorite Wife (1940), Irene Dunne is newly remarried Cary Grant’s presumed dead wife, while in Kiss Me Goodbye (1982), James Caan is Sally Field’s actually dead, or undead, husband, interfering with her engagement to the (ostensibly) less charismatic Jeff Bridges. We apply Stanley Cavell’s concept of the “comedy of remarriage” to these movies and conclude that the comedy of My Favorite Wife really has nothing to do with its premise, whereas Kiss Me Goodbye does perform some interesting twists on comedy of remarriage tropes. In Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, two more movies about love pick up these themes: Stanley Kwan’s Rouge (1987) and Dorothy Arzner’s Merrily We Go to Hell (1932). Happy Haunted Valentine’s Day!

Time Codes:

0h 0m 45s:        MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940) [dir. Garson Kanin]

0h 29m 59s:      KISS ME GOODBYE (1982) [dir. Robert Mulligan]

0h 49m 58s:      FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO – ROUGE (1987) by Stanley Kwan & MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932) by Dorothy Arzner

 

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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring

* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again”

* Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project! 

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM – 1942: WOMAN OF THE YEAR & TORTILLA FLAT + Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto – 35th Anniversary Screening of Midnight Run (1988)

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Our MGM 1942 episode is a problematic Spencer Tracy double feature in which we’re treated to the full range of his persona, from smug saint to semi-demon: George Stevens’ brilliant but flawed Woman of the Year, the first Hepburn-Tracy romantic comedy, and Victor Fleming’s Tortilla Flat, in which Tracy co-stars with John Garfield, Akim Tamiroff, and Frank Morgan as John Steinbeck’s idea of Monterey, California paisanos. We try to explain just how Woman of the Year‘s humanist critique of feminism ends up going so badly wrong, but defend its infamous ending, before moving on to Tortilla Flat’s critique of the work ethic and property ownership. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we react to a 35th anniversary screening of Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin buddy pic Midnight Run.

 

Time Codes:

0h 00m 45s:      WOMAN OF THE YEAR [dir. George Stevens]

0h 46m 58s:      TORTILLA FLAT [dir. Victor Fleming]

1h 10m 55s:      FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TOROTNTO – Midnight Run (1988)

 

Studio Film Capsules provided by The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

                                   

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* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise’s latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating.

* Check out Dave’s new Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project! 

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Acteurist oeuvre-view – Dorothy McGuire – Part 1: CLAUDIA (1943) and THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE (1945) + FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO (Delphine Seyrig series)

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Our Dorothy McGuire Acteurist Oeuvre-view begins with Claudia (1943) and The Enchanted Cottage (1945), in both of which she’s paired with Robert Young. We talk about the qualities McGuire imported to the screen from the stage role she made famous, in the 1941 play Claudia, by Rose Franken, David O. Selznick’s marketing of them, and the career vicissitudes that possibly negated this nascent persona. After diving deep into the complex psychology of Claudia, we discuss John Cromwell’s great romantic fantasy, The Enchanted Cottage, and the metaphorical implications of its fairy tale. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, the Delphine Seyrig retrospective continues with Alain Resnais’ Muriel and Jacques Demy’s Donkey Skin. 

Time Codes:

0h 1m 00s:        Introduction to Dorothy McGuire

0h 15m 45s:      CLAUDIA (1943) [dir. Edmund Goulding]

0h 45m 23s:      THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE (1945) [dir. John Cromwell]

1h 14m 57s:      FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO – MURIEL (1962) by Alain Resnais & PEAU D’ANE (1970) by Jacques Demi (From TIFF’s Delphine Seyrig series)

1h 23m 35s:     Listener mail with Simon

 

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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring

* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again”

* Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project! 

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January Special Subject – Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire – Part 2 + FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO

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Our January Special Subject is Part 2 of our look at the films of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, for which we watched Follow the Fleet (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), Carefree (1938), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). Fred and Ginger’s popularity was on the decline in his period, but these movies include some of Dave’s favourites. We discuss the ways in which these films adhere to and depart from the formula established in their earlier films, for better and worse, then turn our attention to Carefree‘s curious portrayal of the insanity of psychiatry and Vernon and Irene Castle‘s unusual romanticization of marital love and its basis in shared work. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, the TIFF Lightbox Delphine Seyrig festival continues with cult horror movie Daughters of Darkness, the greatest movie of all time, Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, and two feminist activist videos co-directed by Seyrig, S.C.U.M. Manifesto (in which Seyrig reads an excerpt from Valeria Solanas’ book) and Maso and Miso Go Boating. We confess to a shared blind spot in our ability to appreciate 1970s sex thriller aesthetics and explore the implications of the “orgasm interpretation” of Jeanne Dielman, before too much second-wave feminism causes Elise to leave her body and despair of humanity. Dave, however, is on board. We’ve got something for everyone (except for people who do not want to be on spoiled on the ending of Daughters of Darkness) in this episode!

 

Time Codes:

0h 1m 00s:        FOLLOW THE FLEET (1936) [dir. Mark Sandrich]          

0h 18m 16s:      SHALL WE DANCE (1937) [dir. Mark Sandrich]

0h 26m 35s:      CAREFREE (1938) [dir. Mark Sandrich]

0h 38m 18s:      THE STORY OF VERNON & IRENE CASTLE (1939) [dir. H.C. Potter]

0h 54m 01s:      Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto: DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (1971), JEANNE DIELMAN 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (1975), SCUM MANIFESTO (1976), and MASO & MISO VONT EN BATEAU (1975)

 

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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring

* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again”

* Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project! 

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