Podcast appearances and mentions of mitchell leisen

Are you a sassy shoplifter who fell in love with their straight-laced prosecutor over a Christmas road trip to Indiana? Then Remember the Night (1940) is the holiday movie for you! Check out this madcap Preston Sturges penned Yule-Tide classic directed by Mitchell Leisen; starring the fabulous Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray with a supporting cast that includes Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Sterling Holloway, and Fred Toones. Host Sara Greenfield and her guest Ashley Blanchet chat about all this and more on this week's special Holiday episode of Talk Classic To Me. Want to become a subscriber? Use the link below to support the show! https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/sara-greenfield/subscribe

This month the guys examine the directors of each of the Marx Brothers' films. From Dick Smith of Humor Risk to The Incredible Jewel Robbery's Mitchell Leisen, they discuss each director's qualifications, and (Humor Risk aside) whether they elevated the material, brought their own perspectives, or simply stayed out of the way. Matthew provides detailed and often surprising biographical info, while Noah highlights specific moments where the directors shined—as well as the work of Edward Buzzell.

2 + Hours of ComedyFirst a look at this day in History.Then The Eddie Cantor Show, originally broadcast June 12, 1947, 77 years ago, Dream, Dream, Dream.  Bert Gordon as "The Mad Russian." Eddie interviews a prospective son-in-law.  Eddie and Harry Von Zell travel to Washington to petition Congress to relieve the housing shortage. Next, Father Knows Best starring Robert Young, originally broadcast June 12, 1952, 72 years ago, Lead your own life, Bud. Bud's getting to the age where he wants to be his own man.  He's going to move into the room over the feed store. Then the Martin and Lewis show, originally broadcast June 12, 1949, 75 years ago. The boys are looking at doing new music, and they're going to try doing folk music with Burl Ives. Followed by Jack Benny, originally broadcast June 12, 1938, 86 years ago, Artists and Models Abroad.  Guests Joan Bennett and director Mitchell Leisen visit Jack in his dressing room on his first day on the set of, "Artists and Models."Finally Lum and Abner, originally broadcast June 12, 1941, 83 years ago, Showdown with Lizebeth.   Abner's in hiding from Charlie Dillbeck. Charlie thinks Abner's been romancing his wife.Thanks to Richard for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at classicradio.streamCivil defense info mentioned on the show can be found here: www.civildefensemuseum.com/docs.html

This Saturday's "Saturday Matinee" on Vintage Classic Radio will feature three classic radio shows. First, we have "Our Miss Brooks" in the episode "Mr. LaBlanche Needs Fifty Dollars," originally broadcast on October 9, 1949. In this episode, Miss Brooks, a high school English teacher, navigates the usual comedic chaos as she tries to help Mr. LaBlanche, a French teacher, who urgently needs fifty dollars. The cast includes Eve Arden as Miss Brooks, Gale Gordon as Mr. Conklin, Richard Crenna as Walter Denton, Jane Morgan as Mrs. Davis, and Jeff Chandler as Mr. Boynton. Next is "The Mel Blanc Show" with the episode "James Mason Movies," which aired on April 29, 1947. This episode revolves around Mel Blanc, who runs a fix-it shop, as he gets involved in a humorous scheme to bring movie star James Mason to town. The cast features Mel Blanc as himself, Mary Jane Croft as Betty, Joe Kearns as Mr. Colby, Hans Conried as Mr. Cushing, and Alan Reed as the Mayor. Finally, we have "Screen Director's Playhouse" presenting the episode "Suddenly It's Spring," originally broadcast on March 27, 1949. This romantic comedy episode follows the story of a lawyer who returns from World War II to find that his wife has become a successful attorney and is seeking a divorce. The cast includes Fred MacMurray, Paulette Goddard, and screen director Mitchell Leisen. Tune in to enjoy these delightful episodes filled with humor, romance, and classic performances from some of radio's most beloved stars.

Luis Herrero habla de cine con Inocencio Arias, José Luis Garci, Luis Alberto de Cuenca y Eduardo Torres-Dulce.

Primer programa del año 2024 realizado entre Alberto, Alfonso y Ricard. Repasaremos los pocos estrenos en cine, tres películas en plataformas, una serie y un clásico de Mitchell Leisen.

In which the Mister and I check out REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1939), which we caught on TCM but is currently streaming on Plex.  From writer Preston Sturges, the film is directed by Mitchell Leisen.  The film follows as Lee Leander (Barbara Stanwyck) gets caught for shoplifting right before the Christmas Holidays.  In a rush to leave and get his holiday travel going, attorney John Sargent (Fred MacMurray) gets the trial postponed but then feels sorry for her and arranges for bail to post.  Original plans are abandoned and John winds up bringing Lee home with him for Christmas.  Surrounded by John's loving mother (Beulah Bondi), aunt (Elizabeth Patterson) and a young man who lives and works at the house, Willie (Sterling Holloway); Lee and John start to fall in love.  The film clocks in at 1 h 34 m and is unrated on IMDB but we'll say its PG.  Please note there are SPOILERS in this review. Opening intro music: GOAT by Wayne Jones, courtesy of YouTube Audio Library  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jokagoge/support

Gay homosexuals Nick and Joseph discuss ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Remember the Night - a 1940 American Christmas romantic comedy trial directed by ⁠Mitchell Leisen⁠, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. Additional topics include: -Billy Porter's cockapoo -Beyoncé's skin bleaching -The deaths of Frances Sternhagen, Henry Kissinger, and Sandra Day O'Connor -And too many films to mention Want to send them stuff? Fish Jelly PO Box 461752 Los Angeles, CA 90046 Find merch here: https://fishjellyfilmreviews.myspreadshop.com/all Venmo @fishjelly Visit their website at www.fishjellyfilms.com Find their podcast at the following: Anchor: https://anchor.fm/fish-jelly Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/388hcJA50qkMsrTfu04peH Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fish-jelly/id1564138767 Find them on Instagram: Nick (@ragingbells) Joseph (@joroyolo) Fish Jelly (@fishjellyfilms) Find them on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/ragingbells/ https://letterboxd.com/joroyolo/ Nick and Joseph are both Tomatometer-approved critics at Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/nicholas-bell https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/joseph-robinson --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fish-jelly/support

On this episode, I discuss Easy Living (1937).Resources:Stanley Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1981)David Chierichetti, Mitchell Leisen: Hollywood Director (New York: Photoventure Press, 1995)Ida Jeter, “The Collapse of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts: A Case Study of Collaboration in the Motion Picture Industry,” in Journal of the University Film Association, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Spring 1979): 37-45.James McKay, The Films of Ray Milland, 1929-1984 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Inc., 2020)ReFocus: The Films of Preston Sturges, eds. Jeff Jaeckle and Sarah Kozloff (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015)Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Own Words (Chicago: Touchstone, 1991)Jerry Vermilye, Jean Arthur: A Biofilmography (Bloomington, ID: Authorhouse, 2012 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's Paramount 1944 films take the studio's talent of this period in unexpected directions: Mitchell Leisen's Lady in the Dark makes a Technicolor extravaganza of the fantasy sequences in this psychoanalytical tale of a woman's (Ginger Rogers') ambivalence about glamour, based on a hit Broadway musical; and Alan Ladd and Raymond Chandler (as star and screenwriter) bring a hardboiled note to a soapy plot about a socialite (Loretta Young) seeking a cure for her deafness in And Now Tomorrow, a woman's picture/noir hybrid with more interest in class issues than that genre usually shows. Bouncing off of Martin Scorsese, we discuss the "psychological disturbance" in relationships between men and women in Hollywood musicals and just what Lady in the Dark has to say about the possibility of an equal relationship between a woman and a man.    Time Codes: 0h 00m 45s:      LADY IN THE DARK [dir. Mitchell Leisen] 0h 31m 58s:       AND NOW TOMORROW [dir. Irving Pichel] 0h 52m 35s:        Letter from Listener Gregory Studio Film Capsules provided by The Paramount Story by John Douglas Eames   Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler                                     +++ * 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!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com   We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!   

For our Paramount 1943 episode, just a couple of typical comedies, as far as John Douglas Eames is concerned: Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story, starring Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea, a comedy of remarriage in which the screwballs are no longer the central couple, and Mitchell Leisen's cross-class comedy with a number of twists, No Time For Love, with Colbert and Fred MacMurray. We try to figure out what these movies, coming at the end of the screwball comedy cycle, have to say about love, sex, class, wealth, and gender in America in the early 1940s. And in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment we discuss Merian C. Cooper's relentlessly vicious King Kong (1933) as a kind of unconsciously Verhoevian nightmare “family film”. Time Codes: 0h 00m 45s:      THE PALM BEACH STORY [dir. Preston Sturges] 0h 41m 21s:      NO TIME FOR LOVE [dir. Mitchell Leisen] 1h 07m 23s:      Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto:  King Kong (1933) by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack   Studio Film Capsules provided by The Paramount Story Paramount Story John Douglas Eames Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler                                     +++ * 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!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com   We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!       

On this episode I discuss Hands Across the Table (Mitchell Leisen, 1935) starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, and Ralph Bellamy.Works Cited:David Chierichetti, Mitchell Leisen: Hollywood Director (Los Angeles: Photoventures Press, 1995).John A. Gallagher, "Ralph Bellamy Interview" (1983). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKvMGHDM1ACharles Tranberg, Fred MacMurray: A Biography (Albany, GA: BearManor Media, 2007). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Merry Christmas, ladies and gentlemen! On this special wintry episode of The Searchers, we cover the 1940 gem, Remember the Night. A classic Christmas romantic comedy starring the lovely, sweet, and enticing Barbara Stanwyck and the upstanding leading man Fred MacMurray. From a script written by the rapid-fire writer/director Preston Sturges and helmer Mitchell Leisen. Hope you enjoy this joyous season! Follow us on Letterboxd.com to see what we're watching and to read our individual movie reviews! Ben, Chris, & Kevin Our episode catalogue: https://searchersfilmpodcast.podbean.com/ Again, Merry Christmas! See you next year in 2023.

Welcome to It's A Wonderful Podcast!! HOLIDAY SEASON IS HERE AGAIN on the It's A Wonderful Podcast feed as festive movies and topics take over the show's all December long! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all as this is our closest show to Christmas Day this year, celebrating an underseen sparkling gem of a festive rom-com in REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) written by Preston Sturges, directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring the unparalleled Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray! Morgan and Jeannine talk this sweet, honest and extra romantic tale of a District Attorney falling in love with the girl he's supposed to convict as they take a road trip home together to Indiana for the Christmas holidays! There's no place like home for the holidays! Our Youtube Channel for Monday Madness on video, Watchalongs, Live Discussions & more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvACMX8jX1qQ5ClrGW53vow The It's A Wonderful Podcast Theme by David B. Music. Donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ItsAWonderful1 Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ItsAWonderful1 IT'S A WONDERFUL PODCAST STORE: https://its-a-wonderful-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Sub to the feed and download now on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Amazon Music & more and be sure to rate, review and SHARE AROUND!! Keep up with us on Twitter: Podcast: https://twitter.com/ItsAWonderful1 Morgan: https://twitter.com/Th3PurpleDon Jeannine: https://twitter.com/JeannineDaBean Keep being wonderful!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/support

The movies we discussed for our 2022 Christmas Special Subject are a little on the dark side, as all great Christmas movies are, but these one perhaps more obviously than ever. We paired Mitchell Leisen's Remember the Night (1940), with a screenplay by Preston Sturges, with William Dieterle's I'll Be Seeing You (1944), two movies about women who've fallen afoul of the law, and whose experience of falling out of step with society is contrasted with the comforts that bourgeois family life can offer. We zero in on the complexity of Barbara Stanwyck's relationship with her own morality in Remember the Night and the relationship that develops between Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten's traumatized soldier, who struggles with a different kind of alienation, in I'll Be Seeing You. We also discuss the way that the two movies associate the holiday season and spirit with the material and emotional comforts of bourgeois family life even while showing that the empathy fostered by the latter has limitations.  Time Codes: 0h 1m 00s:        REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) [dir. Mitchell Leisen] 0h 46m 37s:      I'LL BE SEEING YOU (1944) [dir. William Dieterle] +++ * 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!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join! 

Luis Herrero habla de cine con Luis Alberto de Cuenca, José Luis Garci y Eduardo Torres Dulce.

In our Jean Arthur Acteurist Oeuvre-view this week, we look at two of Arthur's best-known comedies, Easy Living (1937), directed by Mitchell Leisen, with a screenplay by Preston Sturges, and You Can't Take It With You (1938), directed by Frank Capra. Dave explains why Jean Arthur's performance in Easy Living is his all-time favourite comedy performance by an actress. (Hint: it involves a pig called "Wafford.") We ponder Arthur's transformation into a glamorous romantic lead, even as she retains her (slightly off-kilter) ordinary person qualities, and the contrasting comic visions of Sturges and Capra. Then, in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, we discuss our second double feature of Tod Browning's Dracula and Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, the subject of our 2019 Halloween episode. This time around we find a lot to say about Coppola's Dracula as a Dionysian Christ figure who can lead Winona Ryder out of the death-in-life of civilization.  Time Codes: 0h 1m 00s:        EASY LIVING (1937) [dir. Mitchell Leisen] 0h 49m 27s:      Jean Arthur v. Harry Cohn – 1937/1938 (from John Oller's Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew) 0h 54m 19s:      YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938) [dir. Frank Capra]   1h 22m 35s:      Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto – DRACULA (1931) by Tod Browning & BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992) by Francis Ford Coppola   +++ * 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!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join! 

En una semana en la que llega lo nuevo del gran director sevillano Alberto Rodríguez, contamos con la presencia del compañero Guillermo Navarro para hablarnos de la última edición del Festival de cine de San Sebastián, donde se han podido ver películas de gran calidad. Además analizaremos 'No te preocupes querida' y la impactante película Netflix 'Athenea'. Como clásico, la petición de César 'Una chica afortunada' de Mitchell Leisen (1937).

Barbara Stanwyck is back, and we’ve got her. Here’s a noir melodrama with its share of flaws that I like, regardless. And man, IMDB gives a LOT more plot than I would have. “A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad crash victim and starts a new life with the woman’s wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.” It’s stylishly directed by Mitchell Leisen, and features lots of familiar character actors. And John Lund is also in it. Shelly Brisbin with Nathan Alderman and Randy Dotinga.

Barbara Stanwyck is back, and we’ve got her. Here’s a noir melodrama with its share of flaws that I like, regardless. And man, IMDB gives a LOT more plot than I would have. “A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad crash victim and starts a new life with the woman’s wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.” It’s stylishly directed by Mitchell Leisen, and features lots of familiar character actors. And John Lund is also in it. Shelly Brisbin with Nathan Alderman and Randy Dotinga.

Una semana más para ofrecerles un programa cargado de contenido: Los estrenos en salas (Ambulance, La ciudad perdida, El juego de las llaves....etc), estrenos en plataformas como Fresh o Metal Lords y el clásico a petición de un oyente: La muerte de vacaciones (1934) de Mitchell Leisen, película sobre la que se hizo un remake en el 98 llamado ¿Conoces a Joe Black?

Journey into the 5th Dimension as Trivial Theater, Jacob Anders Reviews and Movie Emporium discuss the iconic television show created by Rod Serling. This Week The 5th Dimension talks Season 1 Episode 25 titled: People Are Alike All Over. The Episode is Directed by: Mitchell Leisen and Stars: Roddy McDowall, Susan Oliver, Paul Comi, Byron Morrow, Vic Perrin and Vernon Gray. You Can Find Jacob Anders Reviews at: Youtube: www.youtube.com/JacobAnders Twitter @Redneval2 You can find Trivial Theaters content at: Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/TrivialTheater Twitter: @trivia_chic You can find Movie Emporium's content at: Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/MovieEmporium Twitter: @Movie Emporium Intro Created by Trivial Theater Music Created by Dan Jensen #TheTwilightZone #MovieEmporium #TrivialTheater #JacobAndersReviews --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/5thdimension/support

We discuss our beloved Jean Paul Gaultier's obsession with the 1945 film ‘Falbalas' and why it led him into fashion design. See links below. Don't forget to check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/bandeapartpodcast The Courtauld Gallery: https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/ Mitchell Leisen (director), Travis Banton (costumes), 'Hands Across the Table' (1935): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026452/ ‘Dialogue avec Jean Paul Gaultier', Cinémathèque Française (6 October 2021 – 16 January 2022): https://www.cinematheque.fr/video/1711.html Jean Paul Gaultier, Last Couture Show, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, 22 January 2020, NOWFASHION (uploaded 24 January 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYDyi-B1FuU Jacques Becker (director), Marcel Rochas (gowns), Falbalas (1945): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035853/ Paul Devine, ‘Jacques Becker's Falbalas getting Blu-Ray Release', The Peoples Movies (27 September 2021): https://thepeoplesmovies.com/2021/09/jacques-beckers-falbalas-getting-blu-ray-release/ See also our previous episode (132) about Falbalas: https://soundcloud.com/bande-a-part-rb/132-falbalas

Join Trivial Theater and Movie Emporium as we journey through the world of Rod Serlings influential The Twilight Zone. This week we talk Season 1: Episode 4 which is titled The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine. The episode is Directed by: Mitchell Leisen and Written by Rod Serling and Stars: Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Jerome Cowan, Ted de Corsia, Alice Frost and John Clark You can find Trivial Theaters content at: Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/TrivialTheater Twitter: @trivia_chic You can find Movie Emporium's content at: Youtube: www.youtube.com/MovieEmporium Twitter: @Movie Emporium Intro Created by Trivial Theater Music Created by Dan Jansen (youtube.com/danjensenmovietalk) #TheTwilightZone #MovieEmporium #TrivialTheater --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/5thdimension/support

For our Paramount 1937 episode, we look at two movies starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray: Mitchell Leisen's comedy/melodrama Swing High, Swing Low and Wesley Ruggles' screwball comedy True Confession. Topics include our surprise at Leisen's go-for-broke portrayal of male abjection and MacMurray's risk-taking in Swing High, Swing Low; the quiet virtues of Paramount's leading men; the moment when John Barrymore became Late Al Pacino; and Lombard's adorable sociopath in True Confession as a precursor to Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewitched. "She's going to FRY!"   Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:                  SWING HIGH, SWING LOW [dir. Mitchell Leisen]        0h 40m 00s:                  TRUE CONFESSION [dir. Wesley Ruggles] 1h 20m 26s:                  Listener mail on La Marseillaise with Adam             Studio Film Capsules provided by The Paramount Story by John Douglas Eames                                     +++ * 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!  *And Read lots of Elise's Writing at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Cléo, and Bright Lights.* Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com

Looking for something to watch at home while you escape from the madness and weirdness of the world? Check in with the Holmes Movies Podcast team to see what they are recommending for those struggling to find something to see. Here is Adam's recommendation: Mitchell Leisen's Murder At The Vanities Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/holmesmoviespod  Check out Anders's Website: http://www.andersfholmes.com  Check us out here: https://linktr.ee/holmesmoviespod  Follow us on Letterboxd! Check out what we have been recommending to one another: https://letterboxd.com/andersfholmes/list/holmes-movies-recommends/   Anders's profile: https://letterboxd.com/AndersFHolmes/  Adam's Profile: https://letterboxd.com/adamhfholmes/

This week on the podcast, Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute went to school with two learned FC veterans: Nellie Killian, curator and FC contributing editor, and Ina Archer, artist, critic, and media preservationist at the National Museum of African-American History & Culture. Each of them assigned the group a movie to watch. We're calling this episode “homework,” but fear not, their selections were far from a chore!  Ina selected Murder at the Vanities (1934), Mitchell Leisen's madcap Pre-Code caper, while Nellie suggested Honey Moccasin, a 1998 experimental gem by Indigenous filmmaker Shelley Niro. Both selections were zany, incredibly inventive, and very much of their times. They made for a great double feature. We learned a lot from the conversation and hope you will, too. Pop quiz coming up soon! For links to the films and more, go to the show notes at https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-comment-podcast-homework/

A new year, 1934, and our first studio, Paramount, shows its ability with satire and sympathy for the underdog. It's the Year of the Code, but that doesn't seem to have much applicability to our two films, Cecil B. DeMille's feminist jungle adventure comedy Four Frightened People and Mitchell Leisen's occasionally noirish revenge drama, Behold My Wife! Warning : If you don't want to hear a couple of semi-informed white people talk with qualified admiration about a couple of racially problematic (but relatively sophisticated) mid-30s Hollywood movies, this may not be the podcast episode for you.     Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s: Four Frightened People (dir: Cecile B. DeMille) 0h 48m 52s: Behold My Wife! (dir: Mitchell Leisen) +++ * Check out our Complete Upcoming Episode Schedule * Find Elise’s latest film piece on Depression era film romance *And Read lots of Elise’s Writing at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Cléo, and Bright Lights.* Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com Theme Music: “What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes?” – Le Tigre  

One week and three days late, we emerge…triumphant?…with a very belated Christmas episode about Remember the Night (1940). We discuss Barbara Stanwyck’s work ethic, Fred MacMurray’s emotional repression, the world of contrasts between Mitchell Leisen and Preston Sturges as directors, and poor Sterling Holloway just trying to make it through the day. Show Notes & Sources: https://wp.me/pbeIfn-4g Theme Music by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io): "Dark Hallway (Distressed)" and "The Show Must Be Go"

Instead of glass slippers and a poofy ball gown, Claudette Colbert receives a trunk full of glamorous clothes from her fairy godfather, played by John Barrymore. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder offer a modern update to the classic Cinderella fairy tale. They replace the old standby wicked stepmother and evil spawn with a formidable high society adversary played by Mary Astor. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, it’s an outstanding pictures from one of the most celebrated years in Hollywood history. I close the episode with an excerpt from Mary Astor’s memoir A Life on Film.

Olivia de Havilland won her first Oscar for Best Actress in Mitchell Leisen's drama about unrequited mother love. Through attention to detail of the period and emotional finesse in underplay, the picture explores the way women carried on despite personal sacrifice. Olivia's performance has so much depth and nuance that she never renders the character as simply a noble cardboard cutout. The episode ends with a portion from an interview with de Havilland, Leisen and John Lund.

Mitchell Leisen’s Lady in the Dark (1944) may rate as one of the most troubled productions in Hollywood history, but none of the backstage drama translates to the finished picture. Ginger Rogers exhibits so much range in her role as a fashion magazine editor who has a psychological breakdown when she suddenly can’t make a decision. In the middle of her crisis, Ray Milland, as the head of advertising, lobs insults and competes for her job as the boss. Dream sequences include snappy dance numbers and out of this world costumes. I close Ep 13 reading interviews with cast and crew members collected by David Chierchetti in his book Mitchell Leisen: Hollywood Director.

The Lux Radio Theatre. May 14, 1945. CBS net. "Alexander Graham Bell". Sponsored by: Lux. A rehearsal recording. The story of the invention of the telephone. There is lots of kidding around in the studio after the show.  Don Ameche, June Duprez, Mitchell Leisen (host), Boyd Davis, Charles Seel, Dickie Meyers, Edwin Rand, Ferdinand Munier, Francis X. Bushman, Griff Barnett, Gwen Delano, Herb Lytton (doubles), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Myra Dell, Norman Field, Paul McVey (doubles), Regina Wallace (doubles), Stanley Farrar (doubles), Tommy Cook, Truda Marson, Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Julie Bannon (commercial spokesman), Betty Jean Hainey (commercial spokesman), Lamar Trotti (screenwriter), Ray Harris (author), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).oldtimeradiodvd.com on sale