Podcasts about My Man Godfrey

The Green Hornet "Armistice from Death" 5/10/1945The Life of Riley "The New Chair" 5/13/1945Lux Radio Theater "My Man Godfrey" 5/9/1938Let George Do It "The Spirit World" 5/10/1948The Mysterious Traveler "I Won't Die Alone" 5/11/1948

Jaume Segalés y su equipo hablan de cultura con los principales protagonistas. Hoy en Km0, tras repasar la actualidad informativa y deportiva, profundizamos en los siguientes asuntos: Premios de la Sociedad Geográfica Española La SGE acaba de entregar sus Premios Anuales. Lleva ya 25 años reconociendo, en nuestro país, la trayectoria de personas e instituciones vinculadas al mundo del viaje, la investigación geográfica, la exploración y la aventura. Se trata de una asociación sin ánimo de lucro, fundada en 1997 y declarada de Utilidad Pública, cuyo objetivo consiste en recuperar y difundir la larga historia de la exploración y el amplio bagaje de descubrimientos que España ha realizado en el mundo. La entrega de sus Premios Anuales se realizó ayer jueves 20 de marzo en el Auditorio de la Mutua Madrileña. Entre los galardonados encontramos nombres muy conocidos en muy diversos ámbitos como el atleta de montaña Kilian Jornet, el astronauta Michael López-Alegría o el pintor Antonio López, entre otras figuras sobresalientes relacionadas con la geografía y el viaje, la exploración del planeta, la difusión del saber científico y la conciencia ecológica. Entrevistamos a la secretaria general de la Sociedad Geográfica Española, Lola Escudero. tziar Yagüe Entrevistamos a la cantante vitoriana Itziar Yagüe que, junto al pianista Paul San Martín, rinde homenaje a la emperatriz del blues Bessie Smith en su nuevo disco 'Sugar in my bowl'. Actúan hoy viernes en el Espacio Kune de Pozuelo a las 20:00 y mañana en el Teatro Tribueñe a las 22:00. Sección de cine clásico "Es sesión continua" Antolín de la Torre hoy nos habla sobre Un mayordomo aristócrata (My Man Godfrey). Elegante comedia estadounidense de 1957 dirigida por Henry Koster y protagonizada por David Niven, June Allison, Martha Hyer, Eva Gabor, Jessie Royce Landi, y Robert Keith. Irene Bullock (June Allyson) necesita un nuevo mayordomo y su hija Irene encuentra en el puerto a un camarero llamado Godfrey (David Niven). Empieza a trabajar al servicio de la excéntrica familia Bullock, resultando un hombre tan eficiente como elegante, pero muy reservado para hablar de sí mismo.

EPISODE 74 - “SWEETHEARTS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD" 2/10/2025 As Cupid sharpens his arrows, and the candy and greeting card companies prepare to make bank, we celebrate Valentine's Day. In this episode, we take a loving look at some of Hollywood's most enduring real-life love stories. From JOEL McCREA and FRANCES DEE to JEAN HARLOW and WILLIAM POWELL, join us as we discuss their lives, films, and, most importantly, their beautiful love stories.  SHOW NOTES:  Sources: Ladies of the Westerns (2015) by Michael C. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers; Joel McCrea: Ride The High Country (1992), by Tony Thomas: “William Powell: Hollywood Star, Detective Film Icon," Jan. 27, 2025, Britannica,com; Letters From Hollywood: Jean Harlow , January 21, 2023 by David Stenn, TCM.com; The Love Story of Jean Harlow and William Power: Hollywood's Iconic Couple, Documentary (2023), Youtube.com; “McIntire and Nolan: A Romance Wright In Radio,” June 27, 2022, Travelanche; “12 Times Real Life Couple John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan Played a Couple Onscreen,” July 18, 2022, MeTV.com; “It Took Three Separate Actors To Bring Psycho's Norma Bates to Life,” November 30, 2022, www.slashfilm.com; “John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan Mix Business With Pleasure,” 2022, by J. Johnson, www.vocal.media/geeks; “John McIntire & Jeanette Nolan: Life Together,” by Jerry Skinner, YouTube.com; “Mary Pickford,” April 5, 2005, American Experience, PBS; “Douglas Fairbanks,” American Experience, PBS; Life and Times of Mary Pickford, Documentary (1998), Youtube.com; Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell, Documentary (1993), directed by Tom McQuade; “William Powell,” The State Historical Society of Missouri, www.missouriencyclopedia.com; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars.org): Mary Pickford; “William Powell, Film Star, Dies at 91,”March 6, 1984, by Peter B. Flint, New York Times; “Jeanette Nolan, Spouse Rough it in Montana Wilderness Home,” March 24, 1974, The Indianapolis Star; TCM.com; MaryPickford.org; McCreaRanchFoundation.org; IMDBPro.com; IBDB.com; Wikipedia.com; AcademyMuseum.com Movies Mentioned:  JOEL MCCREA & FRANCES DEE: The Jazz Age  (1929); The Silver Horde (1930); Playboy of Paris (1930); King of the Jungle (1930); An American Tragedy (1931); Caught (1931); Born to Love (1931); Bird of Paradise (1932); The Silver Cord (1933); One Man's Journey (1933); Little Women (1933); Finishing School (1934); Of Human Bondage (1934); Gambling Lady (1934); Becky Sharp (1935); Barbary Coast (1935); These Three (1936); Come and Get It (1936); The Gay Deception (1936);   Wells Fargo (1937); Dead End (1937); If I Were King (1938); Union Station (1939); Foreign Correspondent (1940); I Walked With A Zombie (1943); Four Faces West (1948); Ride The High Country (1962); JEAN HARLOW & WILLIAM POWELL: Man of the World (1931); Ladies Man (1931); Hell's Angels (1930); Reckless (1935); Libeled Lady (1936); After The Thin Man (1936); Saratoga (1937); My Man Godfrey (1936); JOHN McINTIRE & JEANETTE NOLAN: The Ramparts We Watch (1940); Northside 777 (1948); MacBeth (1948); Words and Music (1948); River Lady (1948);   Command Decision (1948); Top of The Morning (1949); No Sad Song For Me (1950); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); Winchester '73 (1950); The Secret of Convict Lake (1951); The Happy Time (1952); The Big Heat (1953); Westward The Women (1951); Apache (1954);  The Far County (1954); Flaming Star (1960);  Summer and Smoke (1961); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); Rooster Cogburn (1975); The Rescuers (1978); True Confessions (1981); Cloak and Dagger (1984); Turner and Hooch (1989); The Horse Whisperer (1998); MARY PICKFORD & DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS: *** Please email us for list of Pickford & Fairbanks movies*** --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Front Row Classics is celebrating one of the most popular screwball romantic comedies of the 1930s. We're taking a look at My Man Godfrey from 1936. Brandon welcomes back Olympia Kiriakou to the podcast. Olympia is the author of Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy, and Legacy. Brandon and Olympia discuss the fantastic performances of Carole Lombard and William Powell that defines both their on-screen and real-life chemistry. They also focus on the major themes of the film that remain as relevant as their were during the Great Depression. 

My Man Godfrey Front Row Classics is celebrating one of the most popular screwball romantic comedies of the 1930s. We’re taking a look at My Man Godfrey from 1936. Brandon welcomes back Olympia Kiriakou to the podcast. Olympia is the author of Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy, and Legacy. Brandon and Olympia discuss the fantastic performances … Continue reading Ep. 265- My Man Godfrey →

In this week's episode, I review the movies and streaming shows I saw in the second half of summer 2024. The episode concludes with a preview of the audiobook of HALF-ORC PALADIN, as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward. TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 218 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is September the 13th, 2024 and today we are discussing my Summer Movie Review Roundup, Part 2. Just to note to say that you may hear some odd background noises in this episode. My neighbor across the street is getting his roof replaced. I can't begrudge them that because no one likes a leaky roof, but it is slightly inconvenient because this is the only time today I have to record the podcast. So if you hear the occasional pop in the background, that is the sound of a nail gun driving shingles into a roof. Before we get to our main topics, let's have an update on my current writing projects and then we will do Question of the Week. First up, Shield of Conquest is very nearly done. I am about 2/3 of the way through the final round of editing and if all goes well, it should come out shortly after this episode is available, so be sure to check your favorite ebook retailer and see if it is out. Once that is done, I will be going full speed ahead on Ghost in the Tombs and I'm currently 48,000 words into that, so about halfway through the rough draft, give or take, depends on how long the rest of the book takes and how certain scenes in the final half of the book out. In audiobook news, Half-Orc Paladin is done, and it's now available on all the major audio stores: Audible, Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Chirp, Kobo, Payhip, Spotify, and a couple others, and you can get it there. We will close out this episode with a preview of Half-Orc Paladin (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward). 00:01:30 Question of the Week Now let's have a Question of the Week. Question of the Week is designed to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics. This week's question: what is your favorite superhero movie? No wrong answers, of course (including “I don't like superhero movies”, but it turns out no one said that, so I guess superhero movies are quite popular). The inspiration for this question was that I was thinking about how superhero movies are such a major part of pop culture. Nowadays when people think of superhero movies, they usually think of Marvel and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but there were major superhero movies before the whole Marvel Cinematic approach really got going in the 2000s/2010s and they've been obviously part of pop culture for a very long time, and as you could expect, we had a wide range of responses from this. Our first response was from JD, who says: If I had to pick just one, it would probably be Guardians of the Galaxy. The first film had a near perfect mix of action, drama, and comedy. For me, the best Batman film was the 1966 one starring Adam West. Joaquim says: In the last millennium, when I was a child, we had DC Comics and Marvel Comics. I did like Batman in DC, Spider-man and The Avengers in Marvel. In the movies, I did not particularly like Batman, but I like the early Marvel movies, Avengers 1 and Captain America 2 the most. Mary says: X-Men. Todd says: 1978 Superman. Visually at 15, I believed a man could fly. Juana says: My superhero is actually a couple - The Vision and Scarlet Witch (before they turned Vision into an emotionless thing a while back). What's interesting is that the guy who was in charge of Picard Season 3, which I quite liked, is apparently going to be running a Vision show for Marvel sometime in 2026 (assuming Disney doesn't run out of money first), so it should be interesting to see how it turns out. Stephen says: I know this is random- Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings. I know it was not completely an original storyline, but I liked it a lot. I agree with Stephen. I thought Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings was one of the stronger Marvel movies and it's too bad it hasn't had a sequel. Becca says: The Dark Knight trilogy. Those are the real Batman films for me. Ledger was certainly the best Joker. I do love the happier Batmans, too. I grew up on West's version of Batman. For me, V for Vendetta is my favorite superhero movie and one of my favorite movies ever. I usually watch it at least once a year. Michael says: Captain America: The First Avenger. Juliana says: Second Captain America. The spy aspect really married well with the superhero genre in this one. I agree with Juliana. I think Captain America: Winter Soldier is one of the better Marvel movies. Roger says: only because we're entering the season, The Christmas Chronicles with Kurt Russell. Andrew says: Deadpool and Wolverine, followed by The Dark Knight trilogy. James says: I know Fox's X-Men get a bad rap generally, but Days of Future Past was amazing. I'd have to go with that, with The Dark Knight, Thor: Ragnarok, and Wonder Woman as runner-ups. Cheryl says: don't really have favorites, but for eye candy, Thor. Catriona says: The original Christopher Reeve Superman. Jenny says: Mystery Men. Jeanne says: Megamind. Randy says: Christian Bale and Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight movies are definitely in the top three but Iron Man has always been my favorite. Good story, good pacing, and Robert Downey Junior just nailed playing Tony Stark, in my opinion. Not to mention it kicked off the longest, largest, story movie arc to this day. BV says: Superman 1978. Terry says: Fifth Element. Gary says: Hancock. For myself, I think my favorite superhero movies would be the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale Dark Knight trilogy. Strong performances, great action, and they managed to do something very difficult, namely bring a satisfying end to a superhero story arc. It almost feels like The Dark Knight movies are the “real” events of Batman and all the other comics and cartoons and movies are legends and exaggerations after the fact, like how the whole glittering mythos of King Arthur and the Round Table developed around an obscure Roman British warlord in the 500s AD. Also, Heath Ledger's version of the Joker was amazing. That said, for Marvel movies, which have been kind of the dominant form of superhero movies for the last decade, I think the best one of those would be Captain America: Winter Soldier (in my opinion). 00:05:45 Main Topic: Summer 2024 Movie/TV Roundup, Part 2 And now on to our main topic of this episode, my Summer 2024 Movie Roundup, Part 2. And if this movie roundup has a theme, it's miscellaneous. The reason for that is I did not actually watch all that many movies in the second half of the summer. There was no nefarious reason for that. I was just busy with travel and busy with multiple instances of home repair and busy finishing Half-Orc Paladin and Shield of Conquest. So I mostly watched some older stuff that I found on streaming, especially on Tubi, which has the delightful attribute of being free with ads. As usual, the movies are listed from my least favorite to my most favorite and the grades are totally subjective and based upon my own thoughts and opinions and nothing more substantial than that. So with that in mind, let's start out. First up is The Burbs, which came out in 1989. It's a dark comedy/horror movie satire starring Tom Hanks as Ray, a suburban homeowner with a wife and a son. On vacation for the week, Ray becomes obsessed with the Klopeks, a new family that has moved on to his street. The Klopeks have no interest in maintaining their property and show signs of other odd activities: going out only at night, constant digging in the backyard, and strange noises and lights coming from their basement. Soon, Ray and his two neighbors become determined to find out just what the Klopeks are up to. It was darkly funny, though you could tell that the ending had been rewritten a few times. The movie couldn't decide if it wanted to be a satire of clannish homeowners or to totally validate their concerns, or both. I think it tried for both and couldn't quite get there. Though it does kind of show how much the United States has changed or possibly declined in the last 35 years. Ray and his friends are shown as kind of losers, but they live in enormous, well-maintained houses. It's like how Homer Simpson in the first couple seasons of The Simpsons was shown as a bumbling loser, but yet he could afford to live in a four bedroom house, his wife didn't work most of the time, they had two cars and three children, and all without Homer having a college degree. By the standards of 2024, Homer Simpson lived like a king. Amusing anecdote-one scene in The Burbs was clearly inspired by A Fistful of Dollars, which I talk about more below. Overall grade: C Next up is The Batman vs. Dracula, an animated movie which came out in 2005. In this movie, Batman goes up against Count Dracula. This was probably as dark and gory as something can be while still technically remaining targeted at children. When a robbery goes bad, the Penguin accidentally releases Count Dracula from his tomb and becomes the Vampire Lord's new chief servant. Dracula is fascinated by the modern world, but he's especially fascinated by Batman since for obvious reasons he admires Batman's bat-themed motif. Dracula offers Batman the chance to become his chief lieutenant, which Batman refuses and Dracula takes that personally. He'll get his revenge by turning Gotham City into a city of the undead and taking Bruce Wayne's girlfriend, Vicki Vale, as his new vampire bride. Unless, of course, Batman stops him. It was interesting how neatly Dracula slots into becoming a good enemy for Batman. After all, in the original Dracula novel, Dracula's nemesis Van Helsing was definitely a man of science who brought logic, reason, and scientific method to his fight against Dracula. Batman is also a man of science in the sense that he's a detective, so he does some detective work to unravel Dracula's weaknesses and to build weapons to use against him. Overall Grade: B Next up is Set It Up, which came out in 2018. This is a romantic comedy that reminded me a bit of the more cynical 1940s-era romcoms like The Shop Around the Corner. The female lead Harper works as a personal assistant for a workaholic female sports writer who terrorizes her employees. The male lead Charlie works for workaholic male venture capitalist who also terrorizes his employees. Both their bosses are miserable, demanding people who make everyone around them unhappy. One day, both Charlie and Harper are dispatched to get dinner for their bosses and end up fighting over the last available delivery man. However, in the wake of the encounter, Harper hatches a plan. Both she and Charlie know everything about their respective bosses, so why not manipulate their calendars and schedules so they fall in love? They might be more cheerful, or at the very least they'll be in the office less frequently. Charlie has his misgivings about this plan, but after one more unfortunate encounter with his boss, decides to embark upon Harper's plan. Of course, Charlie has a high maintenance girlfriend who wants him to make a lot more money, and Harper is trying to find a boyfriend, but as per the rules of romcoms, perhaps Charlie and Harper will have more in common than they might think. This had a bit more crude humor than I might prefer but was still enjoyable. It did remind me quite a bit of the more cynical ‘30s and ‘40s movies like My Man Godfrey or the Shop around the Corner. Overall Grade: B Next up is The Bank of Dave, which came out in 2023. This is basically the cynical British version of a Hallmark movie, but with better production values. It is very, very loosely based on the activities of Dave Fishwick, a successful van dealer in the north of England who decides to start a local bank for local people, feeling that the Big London banks have lost sight of that. To do that, he recruits a London lawyer named Hugh to help him navigate a labyrinth of regulation around financial institutions. Of course the big banks dislike this idea and come after Dave hard. Dave is definitely the local Big Man, and it's interesting that humanity's default mode of government seems to be Local Big Man. However, if one must have a Big Man, one could only hope he is as benevolent as Dave. The movie was pretty funny, though a lot of the humor comes from the UK's class and regional divides, which are rather more pronounced than in the United States. Here in the United States, you can drive for 300 miles and be in the same state the entire time, and the local culture won't change all that much. The cliche is that the US East Coast and the US West Coast look down upon flyover country, but you can drive something like 1,000 miles from New York before you even get to Flyover Country. If you drive 300 miles in the UK, you've probably gone through six or seven regional accents and local traditions. The Bank of Dave does kind of turn into a Hallmark movie since Hugh falls for David's doctor niece. So basically a romance with the backdrop of British class/regional struggle as comedy. Overall grade: B Next up is Cool Runnings, which came out in 1993. A sports comedy film very (and I mean very loosely) based on the debut of the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team in the 1988 Winter Olympics. When sprinter Derice Bannock is unable to qualify for the Jamaican Olympic team due to an accident, he decides to instead to start a bobsled team to represent Jamaica in the Games. To do this, he recruits washed up former bobsledder Blitzer (played by John Candy) to act as the team's coach. What follows is a pretty good example of a sports movie. The team must come together and perform while overcoming their own personal challenges and inner conflicts, especially Coach Blitzer, who has to dig deep and overcome his past to effectively coach the team. It's interesting that sports movies tend to follow one of two trajectories. Either the team rallies and wins the championship, or they don't win the championship and nonetheless achieve moral victory by overcoming their internal difficulties in learning to work together. I won't spoil which path Cool Runnings follows. Overall Grade: B Next up is Uncle Buck, which came out in 1989. This is a coming-of-age comedy film about a 40 year old man, oddly enough. I did think this was pretty funny. Bob and Cindy are a married couple with three children living in the suburbs of Chicago, and when Cindy's father has a heart attack, they need to rush to his side. Due to the unexpected nature of the news, they have to find someone to watch the kids while they're gone. In desperation, they turned to Bob's brother Buck, who alternates between working for his girlfriend at her tire company and making money on rigged horse races. While Buck is kind of a loser, he's basically a decent guy, just averse to responsibility and settling down. He quickly steps up to take care of the children, though he conflicts with the oldest daughter Tia, who is in the grips of a full-blown adolescent rebellion. Buck soon realizes that he's come to a crossroads in his life, which is reinforced when Tia runs away to a party for the weekend. Slightly dark in places, but definitely more family friendly than many ‘80s comedies. Overall Grade: B+ Next up is the Adjustment Bureau, which came out in 2011. It is a science fiction romantic thriller based on the Philip K. Dick story, which is a very odd sentence to say, but it's true. Matt Damon plays David Norris, a congressman from New York who just lost the Senate race. Preparing for his concession speech. He meets Elise (played by Emily Blunt) and is immediately smitten with her. A month later, he runs into her by accident on a bus and receives her phone number. However, soon mysterious suited men with unusual powers arrive and burn the paper with the phone number. The men explain to David that they are The Adjustment Bureau, charged with making sure history unfolds according to the mysterious Plan. The Plan says that David can never see Elise again. David of course is not the sort of guy to take that lying down, so he soon finds himself trying to outwit the Time Cops and find Elise. It was interesting that The Adjustment Bureau was very similar to the Time Variance Authority from the Marvel Loki show, so I wonder if they drew on some of the same sources of inspiration. An interesting movie and worth watching. It actually wrestled with the oldest philosophical question in Western civilization: are all things predestined or do we have free will? Or is it somehow both? I have to admit that the scene where Elise dunked David's BlackBerry in coffee was very satisfying to me personally, since I had a lot of support headaches with Blackberries back in the 2000s. Overall Grade: B+ Now, finally the favorite thing I saw in the second half of the summer 2024: A Fistful of Dollars, which came out in 1964. This was the first Spaghetti Western I've seen, which means it's Italian director Sergio Leone's sort of stylized version of what the Old West was like. Of course, the movie actually ripped off the Akira Kurosawa samurai movie Yojimbo. In fact, it was so heavily ripped off Yojimbo that Kurosawa sued, settled out of court, and received 15% of A Fistful of Dollars' revenue. Apparently Kurosawa made more from the settlement than he did from Yojimbo. Legal troubles aside, it was quite good and I could see how it heavily influenced many subsequent movies. For example, the Star Wars character of Boba Fett was inspired by A Fistful of Dollars and Boba Fett in turn inspired the Mandalorian. Stephen King's rather disappointing Dark Tower series was inspired by Dollars as well. And there are many other examples, such as the scene in The Burbs I had mentioned above earlier. Anyway, Clint Eastwood plays The Stranger, a mercenary gunslinger who seems to be drifting from town to town without a purpose. He arrives at San Miguel, a US-Mexican border town that is dominated by two crime families at each other's throats, the Rojos and the Baxters. Both clans seek to hire The Stranger for their organizations and the gunslinger begins playing them off each other for personal profit. As mercenary and as ruthless as he is, The Stranger seems to have a core of honor to him. A couple of times he goes out of his way to help people because he can, which sometimes gets him into trouble. Definitely worth watching as a classic film. Overall Grade: A So that's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com, often with transcripts (note: transcripts are available from Episodes 140 onward). If you enjoy the podcast, please leave your review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/BENEATH and get on your way to being your best self. EPISODE 43 - “Favorite Classic Films of the 1930s” - 07/08/2024 During the golden era of old Hollywood, each decade brought forth exciting films that helped define the motion picture industry. In a new feature, Steve and Nan will discect each decade and highlight movies that resonated with them as they started their individual study of film. Beginning with the 1930s, listen as they discuss film that made an impact not only on them, but on the film industry as a whole. And yes, a few of the film they discuss are from that magic year of 1939. SHOW NOTES:  Sources: Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (1981), by Stanley Cavell; The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942 (2022), by Grégoire Halbout; The Art of the Screwball Comedy (2013), by Doris Milberg; Wiliam Holden: A Biography (2010), by Michelangelo Capua; The Life and Loves of Barbara Stanwyck (2009), by Jane Ellen Wayne; The Lonely Life: An Autobiography (2017), by Bette Davis; Leslie Howard: The Lost Actor (2013), by Estel Eforgan; Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew (1997), by John Oller; The Films of Frank Capra (1977), by Victor Scherle and William Turner Levy; IMDBPro.com; Wikipedia.com; Movies Mentioned:  The Women (1939), starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Mary Poland, Joan Fontaine, Lucille Watson, Virginia Pohvah, Virginia Weidler, Marjorie Main, Virginia Grey, Hedda Hopper, Ruth Hussey, and Mary Beth Hughes; The Petrified Forest (1936), starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Porter Hall, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Joe Sawyer, Charley Grapewin, and Paul Harvey; Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939), starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Beulah Bondi, and Guy Kibbee; Easy Living (1937), starring Jean Arthur, Ray Milland, Edward Arnold, Luis Alberni, Franklin Pangborn, Mary Nash, William Demarest, and Esther Dale; My Man Godfrey (1936), starring William Powell, Carole Lombard, Gail Patrick, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, Jean Dixon, Misha Auer, and Alan Mowbray; The Awful Truth (1937), starring Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont, Alexander D'Arcy, Joyce Compton, and Esther Dale; Stage Door (1937), starring Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Andrea Leeds, Eve Arden, Gail Patrick, Adolphe Menjou, Franklin Pangborn, Samuel S. Hinds, and Constance Collier; Golden Boy (1939), starring Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden, Adolphe Menjou, Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Calleia, Edward Brophy, and Sam Levene; --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this episode guest host Katie Zaragoza welcomes Gina Dalfanzo to discuss the screwball comedy classic, My Man Godfrey from 1937.Find Us Online:RavenCreekSC.com/TheCommentariansFacebook.com/TheCommentariansTwitter.com/CommentariansInstagram.com/CommentariansGina Dalfonzo Online:: Gina's Substack: dearstrangethings.substack.com Gina's Blog:: http://dickensblog.typepad.com

In this episode Joe tells us what movie they're going to be watching, who they're going to be watching it with and about the special guest host.In this episode guest host Katie Zaragoza welcomes Gina Dalfanzo to discuss the screwball comedy classic, My Man Godfrey from 1937.Find Us Online:RavenCreekSC.com/TheCommentariansFacebook.com/TheCommentariansTwitter.com/CommentariansInstagram.com/Commentarians

2 + Hours of ComedyFirst a look at this day in History.Then Lux Radio Theater, originally broadcast May 9, 1938, 86 years ago, My Man Godfrey starring William Powell and Carole Lombard.  An adaptation of the 1936 comedy about a scatterbrained socialite who hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.Followed by The Great Gildersleeve starring Harold Peary, originally broadcast May 9, 1943, 81 years ago, Wedding List.   Leila gets angry when Gildersleeve decides to play poker with the boys. Will a gift of candy do the trick?Then Jack Benny, originally broadcast May 9, 1948, 76 years ago, The Oscar.  Jack tells guests Ronald Colman and Benita Hume that Ronald's Oscar has been stolen. A flashback retells (again) the, "Your money or your life" joke and still gets a laugh.Finally Superman, originally broadcast May 9, 1941, 83 years ago, The Nitrate Shipment.  Superman rescues Pug just as he's about to drown! A torpedo is launched at the ship by a submarine, but is turned around. The torpedo hits the submarine and sinks it...ending the adventure. Thanks to Richard for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamCivil defense info mentioned on the show can be found here: http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/docs.html

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In this week's episode, we take a look at what makes a book's ending disappointing or unsatisfying, and offer tips and tricks on how to avoid that. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of GHOST IN THE WINDS as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of GHOST IN THE WINDS for 50% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: SPRINGWINDS The coupon code is valid through April 12th, 2024, so if you find yourself needing an audiobook to leap into spring, you can listen to the epic conclusion of the GHOST EXILE series! TRANSCRIPT Spoiler Note: Please skip 11:50-12:53 if you would like to avoid a summary of the ending of the TV series Breaking Bad.   00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 193 of the Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is March the 22nd, 2024 and today we are talking about how to avoid unsatisfying endings, specifically how to avoid unsatisfying endings while writing your novel. Before we get into all that, we will first have Coupon on the Week and some writing progress updates and then our Question of the Week. So first up, Coupon on the Week. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of Ghost in the Winds, as excellently narrated by House McCarthy. That is the epic conclusion to the Ghost Exile series. You can get the audiobook of Ghost in the Winds for 50% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: SPRINGWINDS and that is SPRINGWINDS and of course the coupon code will be in the show notes as always. This coupon code is valid through April 12th, 2024. So if you find yourself needing an audiobook to leap into spring, you can listen to the epic conclusion of the Ghost Exile series. Now, for an update on current writing projects. I am very pleased to report that as of this recording, Ghost in the Veils, my 150th novel, is now complete. By the time the show goes live, you should be able to get it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Smashwords, and Payhip. So I'm very pleased that's done, and that's out, and I hope you all enjoyed the book. Next up, now that Ghost in the Veils is done, my main project will be Wizard Thief, the second book in the Half-Elven Thief series. I am about 42,000 words into that, so about halfway through and if all goes well, I hope that will come out towards the end of April. I am also 14,000 words into Cloak of Titans and that will be my main project once Wizard Thief is finished. In audiobook news, we're currently proofing the audiobook of Half-Elven Thief. That will be narrated by Leanne Woodward and if all goes well, that should be out sometime in April. I'm looking forward to sharing that with you all. So that's where I'm at with my current writing projects. 00:02:08: Question of the Week Let's go into our Question of the Week. This week's question is what apps and services do you use to listen to music? No wrong answers. Justin says: on my PC, I'll generally use YouTube. The Brave browser removes the ads so I don't have to listen to them. For when I'm away from my PC, I stuffed 128 GB chip in my phone and copied my MP3 files over to it. The basic Android music app handles the music, no problem. When driving, I'll sync the stereo to the phone with Bluetooth. It will play music, navigate, and do hands free calling. I tried connecting to it directly but it seems I can either connect the sound or the charger. Doing both makes for horrible static. Joaquim says: I like to buy MP3 files or CDs. When buying CDs, I try to buy AudioRip CDs on Amazon, else I rip them myself. All MP3 files are on a USB stick which I use in the car audio. At home, I use my laptop with an external Sound Blaster G6 and Sennheiser headphones. I use VLC media player on the laptop. My next comment is from Barbara, who says: Years ago, I purchased the Microsoft Zune because after my research, I determined I got more bang for my buck with it than the Apple product. I still have the Zune, which I haven't used in a while. I also have the app on my computer and that's what I use listen to my music. Unfortunately, I'll be replacing this 10 year old computer at some point and may have to find a different program. That's interesting because about 14/15 years, I used the Zune Desktop Music player as my preferred music player on my PC because I thought it worked better and was faster than any of the alternatives. But I have not thought about that in years, to be honest. Our next comment is from Randy who says: iPhone, iPad, Intel Mac Book Pro, and an Apple Music family subscription. I also have a two terabyte library of purchased music that I keep on a couple of different portable drives, backups because I should think about rewriting my vinyl collection down to MP3 again. I personally thought it was very impressive. Two terabytes because my music library is a mere 59 gigabytes by comparison. Juana says Pandora and Amazon Music. Michael says: I stream from YouTube Music, sadly. Oh well, good to support small independent companies. ( Original response had emojis here to indicate the last sentence was a joke/tongue in cheek). Brandy says: I listen to Pandora or iHeart radio stations from places where I've lived. It probably dates me, but I like either music with limited to no commercials but similar genre groups (and I refuse to give money to Apple if I can help it) or just a straight radio station. Both I leave on the background while I'm reading, cooking, cleaning or painting, etcetera. Jacob says iTunes for the longest time. Then I made the switch to Spotify using a phone, PC, and TV. Jesse says desktop Rhythmbox on Ubuntu for MP3s. If I'm using Pandora, Pithos or Pianobar. Back when I did a lot more Linux stuff, personally I used Rhythmbox a lot on all my Ubuntu computers, so good to see it still being used out there. Elizabeth says: I'm a Spotify gal. It's got almost anything I could look up. It's got some great rain and classical playlist for sleeping. Jake says: I use iTunes on my phone and computer. Finally, Bonnie says: old fashioned FM radio. Hard to beat free, I have to admit. For myself, I use iTunes for PCs, and I prefer to buy MP3 files and music whenever possible. Since I work on my PC for most of the day while writing or editing, that's what I usually use for listening to music. When I'm away from my computer, I use an iPod touch I got in 2021, and when that little device finally dies, I'm going to be very disappointed since Apple doesn't make them anymore and I will have to choose a new service for my portable music playing. I have played Spotify on my phone a bit, but I still prefer having the actual files. Very good discussion, I thought, on this week's Question of the Week. 00:05:50 Main Topic: How to Avoid Unsatisfying Endings for Your Novel So now let's move on to our main topic this week: how to avoid unsatisfying endings for your novel. I've said it before on this podcast and on my various websites, but I think the ending is a lot like the punchline to a joke. The ending ties everything together and makes what happens before makes sense. If you don't have a satisfying ending to your story then that is like a joke with a bad punchline. People just get annoyed by it. People will remember the end of the series (even a very long series) more than the entire rest of the series, and it will ultimately determine how they feel about the entire series. The most famous recent example, I think, is the Game of Thrones show, with Season 8 ending in a way that many people did not enjoy. In many ways, I think the ending of Game of Thrones with Season 8 sort of killed the show's pop culture dominance. I mean, for a while when the show was at its peak, that was the show to watch. It was the example of prestige television and it was all a lot of people could talk about, but the ending just, you know, really ruined that and sort of subverted and undid the rest of the show. It destroyed the show's popular culture dominance and really led to reduced merchandise sales and tie in games and may be a factor why George R.R. Martin will probably never finish the series because of how badly the show turned out. This is a reminder that a bad ending will make the reader cheated and worse yet, make them feel mocked for ever caring about the characters at all. The Game of Thrones shows is a good example of that. With that in mind, let's look at some of the common problems with endings. One is bad writing. To some extent, bad writing can be subjective. One person's bad writing is another person's brilliant prose. However, there are certain structural things with bad writing and bad plotting that can lead to an unsatisfying ending. For one thing, there are examples where the author doesn't know what the ending is and hasn't been able to figure it out, so it sputters out or ends weakly, or dodges any sort of final battle and event, and it just sort of fizzles out at the end. No one enjoys reading that. Another example of bad writing is a twist that doesn't fit the logic of the book or doesn't make sense. It is possible to do a surprise ending that's satisfying, but it has to be written in a way that resonates with the rest of the story and if you look back at the rest of the story, there is foreshadowing that accurately leads to this ending. If the twist ending comes totally out of left field and makes no sense whatsoever, that is going to lead to some unsatisfied readers. Another big problem is an unfinished series or abandoned cliffhanger, which is why readers have trust issues with unfinished series. With every single series I've written, whether Frostborn, Sevenfold Sword, Dragontiarna, The Ghosts, Cloak Games, or Silent Order, I frequently have people email me every single time a new book comes out to tell them when the series is finished because they only read finished series. Some of that is the fault of publishers who will sometimes kill a series after the second book and leave it permanently unfinished if the second book doesn't meet their sales expectations. Some of this is the fault of certain high name writers who've had every opportunity and all the money in the world to finish their series, yet just can't seem to get around to it. This is a good example of why you need to have a satisfying ending and not leave things hanging. Another good example of bad writing is a good ending that is undone or awkwardly avoided in order to stretch it out to another book or relaunch the series. You have a happy ending. Everyone lives happily ever after, and then you change one of the characters suddenly so that the series can continue. That is something to avoid and to paraphrase Sherlock Holmes from one of the original Sherlock Holmes stories, the supreme gift of the artist is the knowledge of when to stop and that includes writing long series. Another potential problem is a confusing ending. Even a well written ending can be a problem if it's confusing. Ambiguous endings can leave the reader, especially casual ones, feeling confused or feeling like they missed something or are disconnected from the characters. Introducing new characters or plot threads too close to the ending so the ending feels crammed, or like it doesn't focus on the main characters or plot, can also be confusing for the reader. Themes and character arcs need to be clear throughout the book, and those need to be resolved with an equal amount of clarity. One potential reason for a confusing ending is things are left unresolved and that can inspire dissatisfaction in the reader. So when you reach the end of your story, it's good to have as much resolved as possible, even if you want to leave something open for the sequel. Another potential problem with the ending is if the ending is too unhappy or too dark. Depending on the genre and the kind of book you're writing, the time to put your characters through hardship and tragedy in order to develop them is in the middle of the plot, not abruptly at the end. If you want your characters to be happy in the end, true, they do have to suffer for it and earn it, but depending on the kind of book you're writing, having them end the book while being miserable and defeated is probably not the best way to go about it. Ambiguous or bittersweet or sad endings have a much higher burden to be extremely well written, and that's one of the reasons tragedy was seen as the highest form of playwriting in Ancient Greek and Elizabethan cultures. A sad ending for the sake of simply having the sad ending isn't as original or edgy as many writers think it is. That said, unhappy endings can work if it fulfills the character arc or set themes of the book, especially if these are well established throughout the story. I think the ending of the TV show Breaking Bad probably is an excellent example of this, because Breaking Bad is the account of mild-mannered chemistry teacher Walter White degenerating into a ruthless drug lord. The series ends with Walter White killed in a shootout while rescuing his former protege and then he dies surrounded by his beloved meth manufacturing machines. By any stretch, this is a very grim and relatively unhappy ending, with the protagonist getting shot to death but it works because it resolves the themes of the story, where White essentially chose this life of violence, and so he brought upon own head. In a sense, it's not happy so much as it is satisfying in that he got to go out on his own terms, defeating his enemies and freeing his former protege from being imprisoned. Another potential good way to have a satisfying unhappy ending is if it moves the other characters to a happy ending or resolution. In other words, the death is not pointless. In the play Romeo and Juliet, obviously Romeo and Juliet both die at the end, but their deaths permit their feuding families to reconcile and put aside their generations-long feud that has caused so much suffering. So while their deaths were tragic, they were not pointless and wasted. Let's go to the opposite side of an unsatisfying unhappy ending. An unsatisfying, unearned, or abrupt happy ending can be just as unsatisfactory. A forced happily ever after that doesn't feel earned, is rushed at the end, and not explained can be very unsatisfying. One recent example I can think of is a while back, I saw the movie My Man Godfrey from 1936. It's a good comedy movie, a good progenitor of the screwball comedy genre, but I think the ending is kind of weak because the main character and the main female character kind of get together at the end, so it would go well, it's the end of the movie, so I guess they should get get together and get engaged. They seem very ill suited for each other and spent most of the movie bickering, but it was just, you know, the genre convention that the male lead and the female lead were going to get together at the end of the movie. So I think that's one flaw and one unsatisfying part in an otherwise very good movie. Deus Ex Machina is also something to avoid because it leaves the reader feeling cheated or like the suffering of the characters didn't matter. An unearned ending where there are dire consequences throughout the book, but they don't show up, feels, you know, like a cheat where the characters got away with something that they shouldn't have been able to get away with. Another unsatisfying example of a happy ending is if it all ties up too neatly, where everything just falls into place for no particular reason. Happy endings are generally the most satisfying when they're earned, when the characters really have to suffer and strive and struggle to get to them. So both unhappy and happy endings have their own pitfalls, though in general I do think happy endings are usually easier to do unless you really know what you're doing. So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found this show useful. A quick note of thanks to my transcriptionist for helping me to pull together with the research for this episode. A reminder that you can listen to all back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

In this week's episode, I rate the movies and TV shows I shaw in Winter 2024. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of GHOST IN THE PACT as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of GHOST IN THE PACT for 50% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: MARCHEXILE The coupon code is valid through April 5th, 2024, so if you find yourself needing an audiobook to leap into spring, we've got one ready for you! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 192 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is March 15th, 2024, The Ides of March, which we're traditionally told to beware, and today we are looking at my Movie and TV Review Roundup for Winter 2024. Before we do that, we will do Coupon of the Week, an update on my current writing projects, and our Question of the Week. So first up, Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of Ghost in the Pact, as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook for Ghost in the Pact for 50% off at my Payhip store with this coupon: MARCHEXILE and that is spelled MARCHEXILE. As always, the coupon code will be in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through April the 5th 2024. So if you find yourself needing an audiobook on this Ides of March, we've got one ready for you. So an update on my current writing projects. I am about 56% of the way through the first edit of Ghost in the Veils. That means the book should be on track to come out before Easter (which is at the end of March this year), if all goes well. I'm also 40,000 words into Wizard Thief, so hopefully that will come out before too much longer after Ghost in the Veils. I'm 11,000 words into Cloak of Titans. So that is where we're at with my current writing projects. 00:01:19 Question of the Week Now on to our new feature: Question of the Week. This week's question is inspired by the fact that I've spent a lot of the last few weeks setting up my new computer and getting it configured properly. So the question is: what is the first computer you ever used? No wrong answers, obviously. Joachim says his first personal computer was an Atari 1040 ST with 1 MB of RAM. I participated in the “religious war” with the Amiga 500 users, which was better and looked down at the MS-DOS PCs, which only has 640 kilobytes of RAM. Justin says: my first computer was a Timex Sinclair. It had two kilobytes of RAM and I forked out $50 for the 16 KB RAM extender module. The manual that comes with it says you will never need this much memory. I use a cassette tape recorder/player to record more programs and it ran a 300 baud. Todd says his first computer was in 1994. I purchased a 486 DX 2 8 megabytes of RAM for use in school. I believe the hard drive was about 250 MB. The monitor weighed a ton. I wrote a bunch of machine code and played Wolfenstein 3D like crazy. Tarun says in 1993 it was a 386 with four megawatts of RAM with Windows 3.1. I played a lot of Prince of Persia and got bad grades in school. Then the computer was locked up. In my educational defense, I did do some Pascal programming. AM says: my first computer was an Apple IIe at school. Getting to play Number Munchers or Oregon Trail on it was some kind of behavioral reward (and a very effective one at that). William says his first computer was a Macintosh SE in my parent's home office, though “using” is an overstatement since all I did was play a few simple preinstalled games. I also have fond memories of playing the original King's Quest with said parents and something like a Compaq Portable. Rich says Commodore 64 with cassette drive. Didn't have cassette the first day. Spent the whole day punching in code for a blackjack game. My sister walks into the room to turn the computer off, erasing everything. That is a bummer. Juana says: a Gateway. My whole family came to gawk at it, and me setting it up! It had 120 megabytes of RAM. Twice what was the ones that used in the college computer lab! I thought I was set for life. Venus says Commodore Vic20. We played Radar Rat Race and Mom gave us a stack of computer magazines and tape recorder, so we played every game that was in the magazines at the time after we typed in the programs and saved them to the tapes. You are the first person outside my family that ever heard also had one. More on that later. Cheryl says: we got our first computer in the early ‘90s: an Amstrad with an AWA printer. I was doing courses for work, so I needed something to print the assignments, but we also played games on it: Wolfenstein, Lemmings, and Stock Markets. They're the only ones I can remember. Craig says: Apple IIe. I'm oldish. With dot matrix printer and handheld modem, dial-up Internet access, the one you had the dial phone into the holding cradle after you called it in. Tracy says: at college we used the TRS80s. I think she may win the award for oldest computer mentioned in this topic. And Perry says: IBM PC clone at school, a friend's family had a Commodore 64. Our first family computer was a Commodore 128. For myself, I had the same first computer as Venus earlier in the thread. That would be a Commodore Vic20. It had 20 kilobytes of RAM and the Word file for the rough draft of Ghosts in the Veils, which I'm editing right now, is 355 kilobytes in size. So to load the Microsoft Word document of Ghosts in the Veils in Microsoft Word format, I would need about 18 different Commodore Vic 20 computers. That's like 1 computer per chapter and a half. So it is amusing to see how computer technology has changed quite a bit over time. 00:04:56 Winter 2024 Movie/TV Review Roundup Now to our main topic. We are inching closer to spring, so I think it's time for my Winter 2024 Movie Review Roundup. I got a Paramount Plus subscription to watch the Frasier reboot and since Paramount owns Star Trek and the Frasier reboot was only 10 episodes long, I ended up watching a chunk of modern Star Trek this winter. This was a new-ish experience because the last new Star Trek I watched was Star Trek Beyond way back in 2016. That was only eight years ago, but it's been a very eventful eight years, you know? I did watch a lot of Star Trek back in the 1990s. If you had held a gun to my head and demanded, you know, if I consider myself a Trekkie, I would say no, because I think Gene Roddenberry's socialist/utopian vision for the Federation that he put into Star Trek is fundamentally kind of goofy. The shows and movies were at their best when they stayed away from it or subverted it, like how the Federation can only be a utopia because Starfleet seems to have a Black Ops section that does all the unsanctioned dirty work and regularly runs amuck. Or like how Starfleet seems to have an actual mad science division that cooks up all kinds of nasty stuff. So anyway, these are the movies and shows I watched in Winter 2024, and as always, my ratings are wholly subjective and based on nothing more rigorous than my own opinions. We will go through these in order from least favorite to most favorite. So the first movie I watched was Now You See Me, which came out in 2013. Last year, I compared Adam Sandler's Murder Mystery movie to a C- student, but a fun C- student who everyone likes for his great parties and goes on to have a successful career as a regional sales manager. By contrast, Now You See Me is the sort of moody art student who always wears a black porkpie hat and thinks of himself or herself as deep and complicated, but in fact, they're just confusing. This is an apt comparison for this movie. Anyway, the plot centers around four sketchy magicians who are recruited by a mysterious organization called The Eye to carry out a series of high-profile heists using stage magic. I have to admit, that concept sounds even more ridiculous as I said the previous sentence. Anyway, after the first heist, the magicians become fugitives from the FBI but keep carrying on shows, sometimes staying ahead of law enforcement. The trouble is that nothing they do makes very much sense, and it all falls apart if you think about it for more than two seconds. Additionally, the movie overall feels very choppy since they rushed from scene to scene very quickly. The actors all gave very good performances that were entertaining to watch, but honestly, that was about the only thing the movie had going for it. Overall grade: D- Next up is The Marvels, which came out in 2023. This movie was logically incoherent, but actually rather charming and funny. It kind of reminds me of those ‘70s or ‘80s style science fiction movies that don't make much sense, though The Marvels was much lighter in tone than anything that came out in the science fiction space in the ‘60s or ‘70s. The movie got a bad rap because it didn't make back its budget, and apparently Disney rather shamefully threw the director under the bus. But to be fair, the budget for The Marvels was an enormous $274,000,000. To put this into context, the top three movies of 2023 (Barbie, Super Mario Brothers, and Oppenheimer) combined had a total budget across these three movies of $350 million, and together they grossed something like 15 times more than The Marvels did. Anyway, the plot picks up from the end of Ms. Marvel when Kamala Khan, Captain Marvel, and Monica Rambeau discover that their superpowers have become entangled. This means that if two of them use their powers at the same time, all three of them switch places randomly. This makes for a rather excellent fight scene earlier in the movie when the three characters don't know what's going on and are randomly teleporting between three different battles, much to the frequently amusing confusion of all participants. Once things settle down, Captain Marvel and her new friends realize that an old enemy of Captain Marvel is harvesting resources from worlds she cares about. So it's up to them to save Earth from this old enemy's vengeance. I have to admit, the plot of the movie didn't actually make much sense, but it was overall much funnier than Ant-Man 3 and Secret Invasion. The best thing about the movie was Kamala Khan and her family. Kamala, Monica, and Captain Marvel also had an entertaining dynamic together and the planet of space musicals was also pretty funny. I think the movie's biggest, unconquerable weakness was that it was the 33rd Marvel movie. There are all sorts of theories of why the movie didn't perform at the box office: superhero genre fatigue, everyone knew it would be on Disney Plus eventually, the lasting effects of COVID on movie theaters and the movie business, Disney throwing the director under the bus, Disney inserting itself into the US Cultural Wars, etcetera. All those reasons are subjective and subject to personal interpretation. What I think is objectively quantifiable is that The Marvels is the sequel to a lot of different Marvel stuff: The Avengers movie, Wandavision, Captain Marvel, the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, Secret Invasion, and Thor: Love and Thunder. That's like 50 to 60 plus hours of stuff to watch to fully understand the emotional significance of all the various characters in The Marvels. 50 to 60 hours of watching sounds like almost an entire entire semester's worth of homework assignments at this point. As someone who has written a lot of long series, I know that you lose some of the audience from book to book. I think that's ultimately why The Marvels didn't make back its budget. The Marvel movies as a series have just gone on too long and are just too interconnected. Ultimately, I am grateful to The Marvels. Realizing and understanding the concept of Marvel Continuity Lockout Syndrome helped me decide to write something new that wasn't a sequel or even connected to anything else I had written, which eventually led to Rivah Half-Elven and Half-Elven Thief. Overall grade: B- Our next movie is My Man Godfrey, which came out all the way back in 1936. This movie is considered the progenitor or one of the progenitors of the screwball comedy genre. A homeless man named Godfrey is living in a trash dump in New York, though despite his circumstances, Godfrey remained sharp and quick on his feet. One night, a wealthy woman named Cornelia approaches him and offers $5 if he'll come with her. Godfrey is naturally suspicious, but Cornelia assures him that she only needs to take him to a hotel to win a scavenger hunt by finding a forgotten man, which was a term President Roosevelt used to describe people who have been ruined by the Great Depression and then forgotten by the government. I have to admit, Cornelia immediately reminded me of the way the more obnoxious YouTubers and TikTokers will sometimes pay homeless people to participate in dance challenges and suchlike. King Solomon was indeed right when he said that there is nothing new under the sun and what has been done before will be done again. Anyway, Godfrey is offended by Cornell's imperious manner but after he sees Cornelia bullying her kindly but none too bright younger sister Irene, Godfrey decides he'll go with Irene so she can win. A grateful Irene offers him a job as the family's butler. At his first day at work, Godfrey very soon realizes the reason the family has gone through so many butlers: they are all certified certifiably and comedically insane. In addition to these other problems, Cornelia is harboring a massive grudge against Godfrey for losing the scavenger hunt and wants payback. Wacky hijinks ensue. Fortunately, Godfrey has some hidden depths that he will need, which include being much smarter than his employers. Admittedly, this is not hard. 1936 was towards the second half of the Great Depression in the United States, so obviously the movie has more than a bit of social commentary. The characters joked that prosperity is just around the corner and wonder where they can find that corner. The rich characters are uniformly portrayed as some combination of frivolous, clueless, or malicious. I think the movie was pretty funny, if sharply so, but the big weakness was that the male and female leads were so clearly unsuited for each other but got together at the end of the movie simply because it was the end of the movie. Still, it was definitely worth watching because you can see how this movie influenced many other movies after it. I definitely recommend watching it with captions if possible, because while human nature has not changed in the last 90 years, sound technology has in fact improved quite a bit. Overall grade: B. Next up is Charade, which came out in 1963. This is a sort of romantic comedy, sort of thriller that has Audrey Hepburn playing Regina, an American living in Paris who is in the process of getting divorced from her husband. When she returns to Paris, she learns that her husband was murdered in her absence and it turns out that he was in possession of $250,000 he stole from the US government during World War II. Regina had no idea about any of this, but the US government thinks that she has the money stashed away somewhere. It turns out that her late husband also betrayed the men he worked with to steal the money and they're convinced that she has the money as well, and they're going to get it from Regina regardless of what they have to do. Regina's only ally in this mess is a mysterious man calling himself Peter Joshua (played by Cary Grant), who may or may not be one of the other thieves operating under an assumed identity. I liked this movie, but I think it had two structural problems. First, Regina wasn't all that bright, though she did get smarter as the movie went on, probably out of sheer necessity. Second, it had some severe mood whiplash. The movie couldn't decide if he was a lighthearted romantic comedy or gritty thriller, though finally snapped into focus as a pretty good thriller in the last third of the movie. Amusing tidbit: Cary Grant only agreed to do the movie if Audrey Hepburn's character would be the one chasing his character in their romance, since he thought their age gap would be inappropriate otherwise, because he was so much older than Hepburn at the time of filming. Overall grade: B+ Next up is the new Frasier series from 2023. I admit I had very, very low expectations for this, but it was considerably better than I thought it would be. My low expectations came partly because the original show was so good. Some seasons were stronger than others, of course, but the show had some absolute masterpieces of sitcom comedy throughout its entire run. Some of this was because I think the 2020s are a much more humorless and dour age than the 1990s, so I had my doubts whether the new show could be funny at all. Fortunately, my doubts were misplaced. The new Frasier is actually pretty good. It's interesting that the show's generational dynamic has been flipped on its head. In the original show, the pretentious Frasier lived with his working-class father. 20 years later, it's now Frasier who lives with his son Freddie, who dropped out of Harvard to become a firefighter and consciously rejected his father's love of intellectualism and cultural elitism. The inversion of the original dynamic works quite well. It has some moments of genuine comedy because, like his father before him, Freddie is more like his father than he realizes. The show also avoided the pitfall of bringing back legacy characters that Disney and Lucasfilm stumbled into with Star Wars and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Disney brought back legacy characters like Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones but made them into sad, old losers. Frasier, by contrast, while frequently an unsympathetic comedy protagonist who brings his own misfortunes onto his own head, is most definitely not a sad old loser. He's famous, respected, and wealthy enough that he can afford to buy an apartment building in Boston at the drop of a hat. If you know anything about the United States, you know that the East Coast is the most expensive area of the of the country. Despite that, he remains the same well-meaning buffoon that he always was, the sort of man who, as a colleague aptly says, always goes that extra, ill-advised mile. There's a story that when Ricky Gervais was advising the creators of the American version of The Office, one of his chief pieces of advice was that Michael Scott could not be as incompetent as David Brent was in the original UK version of the show. American culture, Mr. Gervais said, was generally much less forgiving of incompetence than British culture. I thought of this as I watched Frasier because all the characters were in fact extremely competent at their jobs. Even Frasier himself, when he finally gets out of his own way, is a very good psychiatrist and teacher. Anyway, the show was funny and I think it deserves a second season. We'll see if that happens or not. Overall grade: A- Next up is Star Trek: Lower Decks Seasons One through Four, which came out from between 2020 and 2023. As I mentioned earlier, I ended up subscribing to Paramount Plus for a month after I watched Frasier, so I decided to watch Star Trek Lower Decks, since I'm forever seeing clips of that show turning up on social media. Lower Decks is a pitch perfect, affectionate parody of Star Trek from the point of view of four relatively hapless ensigns on the Cerritos, one of Starfleet's somewhat less prestigious ships. We have the self-sabotaging rebel Mariner, the insecure and ambitious Boimler, the enthusiastic science girl Tendi, and cheerful engineer Rutherford, who nonetheless has a dark and mysterious past that he can't remember. Season Four also adds T'Lyn, a Vulcan whose mild expressions of carefully measured annoyance make her a dangerous loose cannon by Vulcan standards. The show is hilarious because it makes fun of Star Trek tropes while wholeheartedly embracing them. The ensigns run into a lot of insane computers, random space anomalies, rubber forehead aliens, and other Star Trek tropes, including the grand and venerable Star Trek tradition of the Insane Admiral. Starfleet officers always seem to go off the deep end when they get promoted to Starfleet Command. The senior officers are also varying degrees of insane and drama generators. Starfleet, from the point of view of the Cerritos crew, is a vast bureaucratic organization that veers between ineffective idealism, blatant careerism, and whatever crazy project the Insane Admiral of the Week is pursuing. Yet since American sitcom characters have to be competent (like we just talked about above with Frasier), when the crisis really kicks into high gear, the Cerritos crew can pull itself together and save the galaxy with the best of them. I did like how the show grows from an affectionate parody to its own thing, with all the characters experiencing struggles and personal growth in their arcs. I liked it enough that when the 5th season of Lower Decks comes out, I'll subscribe to another month of Paramount Plus (assuming Paramount Plus still exists and hasn't been brought up by Warner Brothers or Skydance or something). Overall grade: A- Next up is Predator, which came out in 1987. When Carl Weathers died in early February of 2024, I realized I had never actually got around to seeing Predator. So I did and I'm glad that I watched it. Predator was an excellent blending of thriller, science fiction, and horror. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Dutch, who commands a team of operators who do Black Ops work for the CIA. Since it's 1987, the CIA is up to its traditional shenanigans in Central America and Dutch is dispatched to help out his old friend Dillon (played by Carl Weathers), who has been ostensibly assigned to rescue a Pro-American cabinet minister from rebel guerrillas in the jungle. Since this is the CIA, naturally there is more than the mission than is apparent on the surface. However, the mission quickly becomes irrelevant when Dutch and his team realize they are being hunted by an unknown creature with capabilities unlike anything they have ever seen before. It turns out the creature is the Predator, an alien hunter who comes to Earth and takes human skulls as trophies. Soon the movie turns into a death match duel between Dutch and the Predator. The movie did a very good job of showing the Predator's capabilities such as stealth, heat vision, and his shoulder laser without explicitly spelling them out for the audience. It was a very well put together piece of storytelling and it is of course the source of the famous Internet meme of a muscular white arm gripping a muscular black arm and also Schwarzenegger's famous line of “Get to the choppa!” Also to quote a famous Internet meme, if you had a nickel for every future governor of a US state who is in this movie, you would have two nickels, which is not a lot, but even two is pretty weird, right? Overall grade: A. Now for the favorite thing I saw in winter 2024. That honor goes to Star Trek: Picard Season Three, which came out in 2023. Honestly, this was so much better than I thought it was going to be. I thought I would watch one or two episodes and then give up. Instead I watched the whole thing in like two days over the New Year's holiday. I watched the first episode of Picard Season One way back in 2020 was free on YouTube, but I didn't like it enough to subscribe to CBS All Access (or whatever the heck it was back then). The first episode also seemed more ponderous and dour in the sort of 21st century realistic prestige television snooze fest than I really wanted to watch. But Season Three of the show got high reviews from people whose opinions I generally respect when it came out in early 2023. Since I had Paramount Plus for a month because of Frasier, I decided to give it a go. I'm glad I did. How to describe the plot? You may remember that back in summer 2023, I watched the Battleship movie. Battleship is objectively a bad movie, but it does have one interesting subplot that would make a good movie all on its own. When space aliens imprison most of the US Navy, a bunch of retired veterans take a decommissioned battleship out to war to save the day. This basically is the plot of Picard Season 3. The plot kicks off when Doctor Crusher contacts Admiral Picard after they have not spoken for twenty years. Apparently, Picard had a son named Jack with Crusher that she never told him about and mysterious assailants are trying to kidnap Jack. On the original show, Picard and Crusher definitely gave off the vibe that they probably got romantic whenever they were alone in the elevator together. The fact that Doctor Crusher got pregnant with Picard's son is not all that surprising. Picard had always been adamant about his desire not to start a family and given that any son of the legendary Captain Picard would be a target for his equally legendary enemies, Crusher decided to keep the boy a secret. Picard, understandably, is shocked by the news, but teams up with his former first officer, Captain Riker, to rescue his son. Jack has an extensive Robin Hood-esque criminal history, so it seems that his misdeeds might have caught up to him. It turns out that deadly weapon is locked in Jack's DNA and the people pursuing him aren't merely criminals but powerful enemies intent on destroying Starfleet and the Federation. Jack Crusher's DNA will give them a weapon to do it, which means it's up to the crew of The Enterprise to save the galaxy one last time. This was ten episodes, but it was very, very tightly plotted, with not many wasted moments. Sometimes you see movies that seem like they should have been streaming shows, and sometimes streaming shows seem like they really should have been cut down to movie length. But Picard's Season Three does a good job of telling a tense story that we've been impossible either in a movie or the old days of network television. The show very quickly plunges into the crisis and keeps moving from new tension to new tension. The gradual reveal where Picard at first feels guilty that he has to ask his friends to help rescue his estranged son and ex-girlfriend like he's living his own personal version of some trashy daytime TV show, only to slowly realize that something much more dangerous and much, much bigger than his personal problems is happening, was put together well. The show was also another good example of how to bring back legacy characters right. All the characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation are older and have been knocked around by life or suffered personal tragedies, but none of them are sad old losers like in a Disney or Lucasfilm project. The new and supporting characters were also great. Seven of Nine returns as the first officer to Captain Shaw, a by the book officer who thinks Picard and Riker are dangerous mavericks. He has a point. Shaw turns out to be extremely competent in a crisis. Amanda Plummer was great as Vadic, a scenery chewing villain who has very good reasons to hate Starfleet and the Federation. Vadic's love of spinning directly in her command chair was a great homage to Amanda Plummer's late father, Christopher Plummer, who played a villain with a similar tic way back in Star Trek VI in the ‘90s. It is also great how the show wrapped up some of the dangling plot threads from the ‘90s, like Picard's strained relationship with his former mentee Commander Ro Laren or the brief return of Elizabeth Shelby, Riker's former First Officer. A few people have complained that Worf is now a pacifist, but he's a Klingon pacifist, which basically means he'll attempt negotiation before cutting off your head, but he is still probably going to cut off your head. Less Conan the Barbarian, more serene Warrior Monk. I think Data had an excellent ending to his character arc, which started with his character's very first appearance way back in the ‘80s and Brent Spiner did a good job of portraying Data's fractured personalities and then how they achieved unity. I'd say the weakest point of the show was how consistently dumb Starfleet command is. The plot hinged around Starfleet gathering its entire fleet together for a celebration and then putting all those ships under a remote control system, which seems both exceptionally stupid and very convenient for the bad guys. But to be fair, this is Starfleet, an organization whose high command regularly spits out insane Admirals and also has an unsanctioned Black Ops/Mad Science division that it can't control, so it definitely fits within the overall context of Star Trek. I mean, that's like half the premise of Lower Decks. And if you've ever worked for a large governmental, military, healthcare, or educational institution, you understand. We all know that working in a large institution under leaders who are either insane or dumb isn't exactly an anomaly in the human experience. I mean, the Roman Empire circa 190 A.D. was the most powerful institution on the planet and the Empire's maximum leader liked to spend his time LARPing as a gladiator in the Coliseum. Anyway, the emotional payoff at the end of Picard Season Three was very satisfying, and how the show wrapped up a lot of threads from Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager was pretty great. It's like the people who were in charge of Season Three of Picard watched the Star Wars sequel trilogy and thought, you know, we can do better and then they did. Overall grade: A So those are the movies and TV shows I watched in Winter 2024. If you're looking for something to watch, hopefully one of them sounds like it will catch your interest. That's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform or choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

And now back to your regularly scheduled program. Hosts Brad Garoon and Jake Ziegler return to their examination of the last century in film with a look at 1938. Brad recommended a movie that neither he nor Jake had seen before in My Man Godfrey. They talk about the power of the Thin Man, William Powell, and the tour-de-force performances by the female cast, including Carole Lombard, Gail Patrick, and the indominable Alice Brady. They talk about the peculiar place in Oscar history this Gregory La Cava film occupies, and The theme of the haves vs. the have-nots continues in Jake's pick for the week, Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. They marvel at how a 90-year-old movie can look like it came out today, at the power of Chaplin's comedic persona, and at the startling beauty of Paulette Goddard (and at her character's baffling backstory). Other movies mentioned in this episode: Sabotage (1936), the Great Ziegfeld (1936) Silver Linings Playbook (2012), Godzilla Minus One (2023).

We've been on hiatus for some time! Thank you for your patience while I took a vacation - Xoe   Carole Lombard (1908-1942) nee Jane Alice Peters   Must-see movies: To Be or Not To Be (1942) My Man Godfrey (1936) No Man of Her Own (1932)   Marriages:  William Powell (1931-1933) Clark Gable (1939-1942)   Clip of the Love of Carole's Life - Russ Columbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zQWgOKFTg&t=102s Thank you to  David Plell and Powerbleeder for our theme song "Future Mind" listen here!

We're wrapping up 1936 and covering the winners from our 14 movie tournament this week (10 nominees, plus 4 additional films (!!!)) The nominees were: Anthony Adverse; Dodsworth; The Great Ziegfeld; Libeled Lady; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; Romeo and Juliet; The Story of Louis Pasteur; A Tale of Two Cities; Three Smart Girls; and San Francisco. The additional films we considered were: After the Thin Man, Modern Times, My Man Godfrey, and Swing Time.Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.Timestamps are approximate: 2:35 - After the Thin Man7:35 - Three Smart Girls14:25 - Libeled Lady22:50 - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town32:40 - A Tale of Two Cities45:55 - The Story of Louis Pasteur56:20 - Modern Times1:07:45 - Conclusions1:07:50 - Did the Oscars Get it Wrong?1:10:00 - Top 5 Films1:12:00 - Jake Gyllenhaal Corner (+ important Ronald Colman moustache information)1:16:10 - Patterns1:25:05 - Next Time

We're back in the 30's with 10 nominees, so we're doing another bracket! In this episode will be taking the 10 nominees, plus 4 additional films (!!!) and deciding on the winners and losers from Round 1. We'll discuss the films that were eliminated. The nominees were: Anthony Adverse; Dodsworth; The Great Ziegfeld; Libeled Lady; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; Romeo and Juliet; The Story of Louis Pasteur; A Tale of Two Cities; Three Smart Girls; and San Francisco. The additional films we considered were: After the Thin Man, Modern Times, My Man Godfrey, and Swing Time.Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.Timestamps are approximate: 7:25 - BracketLosers Discussion19:40 - Anthony Adverse vs. After the Thin Man Loser Discussion30:50 - Modern Times vs. Romeo and Juliet Loser Discussion34:10 - My Man Godfrey vs. Three Smart Girls Loser Discussion42:00 - Swing Time vs. Libeled Lady Loser Discussion49:50 - A Tale of Two Cities vs. Dodsworth Loser Discussion59:40 - San Francisco vs. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Loser Discussion 1:12:45 - The Story of Louis Pasteur vs. The Great Ziegfeld Loser Discussion1:25:50 - Best of the Worst & Worst of the Worst1:27:20 - Next Time

Welcome to It's A Wonderful Podcast!! One of the true screwball comedy greats that balances its craziness with genuine, depression-era poignancy; a welcome return to this week's main show for the great William Powell, and a first show appearance for the revered Carole Lombard as Morgan and Jeannine talk Gregory La Cava's MY MAN GODFREY (1936) starring Powell, Lombard, Gail Patrick, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette & Mischa Auer!! 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itsawonderfulpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itsawonderfulpodcast/support

David Thomson chats to Paul Burke about the completion of his fictional trilogy - SUSPECTS (film noir), SILVER LIGHT (Westerns) & CONNECTICUT (screwball comedy). We also chat the American dream, actors, how fiction sheds light on life and vice versa.SUSPECTS: Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime - short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film noir. Thomson sketches in whole lives, lives as intense as the dreams put up on the screen. Then these characters start to meet each other outside the films as if they were real people with real needs and passions. The book is becoming a novel. The names and faces are familiar to us. All these disparate characters come together to form a kind of society. SILVER LIGHT: From 1865 to 1950, the American West, its rich, colourful characters, and its many faces - historical, mythic, and cinematic - are captured in the story of a reclusive, elderly photographer and her friend, a writer of Western comic books. Two characters dominate the novel's foreground: a Georgia O'Keeffe-like figure, photographer Susan Garth, shrewd, cantankerous, reclusive, and still self-reliant at 80, and her longtime friend Bark Blaylock, a western writer/filmmaker who may be Wyatt Earp's son. Silver Light artfully juxtaposes the brimming frontier of legend against a construct of the West as a constricted wilderness of the soul.CONNECTICUT: an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies. Now a trilogy is completed with Connecticut. Why Connecticut? Because that lovely, liberal state has been set aside as the resting place for every disturbed person in the nation! At first, this seems like an opportunity for meeting up with the merry ghosts of Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, William Powell and Margaret Sullavan. We get glimpses of Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey and The Lady Eve. But then the wild comedy darkens as we realize that Connecticut itself is on the edge of a demented and cruel war that challenges all its inmates to keep seeing the comic side of mishap and madness.The trilogy is revealed not just as a set of dazzling stories. But a commentary on how far we have all been steered towards delightful but dangerous fantasies by the movies. Aren't we all screwball now? Is Connecticut safe to visit?Recommendations: Chinatown, The Killing, In A Lonely Place, Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, Red River, The Searchers, Bringing Up Baby, Sullivan's Travels, My Man Godfrey, The Lady Eve. Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate and LeighCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023&CWA Daggers 2023

Carole Lombard (1908-1942) nee Jane Alice Peters   Must-see movies: To Be or Not To Be (1942) My Man Godfrey (1936) No Man of Her Own (1932)   Marriages:  William Powell (1931-1933) Clark Gable (1939-1942)   Clip of the Love of Carole's Life - Russ Columbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zQWgOKFTg&t=102s Thank you to  David Plell and Powerbleeder for our theme song "Future Mind" listen here!

On this installment of Watch Challenge we look at Title Sequences.Here are links to the title sequences we discussed:My Man Godfrey (1936)The Third Man (1949)Catch Me If You Can (2002)Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988)Lord of War (2005)Superman (1978)Follow us on Letterboxd: Aaron & MikeSend your suggestions to us via Twitter: Mike & AaronPatreonSubmit a topic or genre via email us watchchallengepodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vintage Classic Radio presents "Saturday Matinee". Tune in every Saturday for a mix of comedy, music or romance from the golden age of radio that will keep you entertained. Step back in time with Vintage Classic Radio as we present three timeless radio plays in our weekly "Saturday Matinee" episode. Join us as we journey through the golden age of radio with captivating adaptations of beloved films and popular shows. In this episode, we bring you a "Telegram for Mrs. Davis" from the renowned radio show "Our Miss Brooks." Then, prepare to be enthralled by the musical extravaganza of "Forty-Second Street" from Colgate's Theater of Romance. Lastly, we feature "My Man Godfrey," a radio adaptation of the iconic film, again presented by Colgate's Theater of Romance. Tune in and indulge in the nostalgic charm of these classic radio productions.

The movie: My Man Godfrey (1936) As another Great Depression looms, Joshua and Ian watch how the rich handled it the first time back in the '30s. Were Harvard men safe from the trouble as well? Just how insane and out of touch are rich people? Can some good come out of not-good actions? And where can one find a bowl of Japanese men and a forgotten goldfish in the middle of Manhattan?

Kevin and Sarah clash over Nida Manzoor's action/heist/drama mash-up Polite Society! When the dust settles, they take the time to explore societal clashes of a different flavor with the 1936 romantic comedy My Man Godfrey, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email! Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kevin and Sarah clash over Nida Manzoor's action/heist/drama mash-up Polite Society! When the dust settles, they take the time to explore societal clashes of a different flavor with the 1936 romantic comedy My Man Godfrey, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard. Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed? Send us an email! Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode we talk about two comedy classics, It Happened One Night and My Man Godfrey. Let us know what you guys think. Link is below for all our social media. https://linktr.ee/silverscreenvideo Thanks for stopping by. Feel free to email at silverscreenvideopodcast@gmail.com with any comments or thoughts. Also be sure to follow us on Instagram @silverscreenvideopodcast or Twitter @SilverVideo --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/silverscreenvideo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/silverscreenvideo/support

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Perhaps the most Finnish way to make a love letter to Finland is to make a movie that emphasizes a kind of remote inhabitability of a place and its people.  No really: this movie about a deadpan population, their apathetic bureaucracy, an undercurrent of white nationalism in the streets of Helsinki, frigid weather, and truly unappetizing-looking food.  And somehow under the direction of Aki Kaurismäki, the viewer - along with the lead character of a Syrian refugee struggling to survive in a cold, seemingly lifeless nation that doesn't want him there - is inevitably charmed by a nation we slowly learn to be more accurately characterized as emotionally reserved, but earnest.  Distrustful, but generous.  Suspicious and guarded, but maybe ultimately welcoming. If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Gregory La Cava's My Man Godfrey (1936).

Fittingly for Labour Day, we're talking about eating the rich and helping out the poor. Even with his butler job in My Man Godfrey though, the suave William Powell isn't exactly Johnny Lunchbox. He gets to wear a tuxedo and work in the ritzy house of a wealthy family of zany idiots. It could be worse. We were overdue to cover a Carole Lombard film, although her committed comic performance is a bit marred by the way they wrote her to be so whiny and annoying. It also doesn't help that she's jamming love down Powell's throat as Gregory La Cava's picture is presenting a romance that's hard to root for. Even if we let the workplace sexual harassment slide, there's that bizarre ending. Nevertheless, it's certainly better than some of the movies from this era that the AFI put on their various lists. So don't sock the 457th Ellises' Analysis for wanting a "protege" and if you must be phony, at least be a good guy as we serve you a podcast about My Man Godfrey on a silver platter. And if you don't like a bunch of pre-dinner martinis, order a mailbox full of Sparkplug Coffee. They'll give you a 20% discount if you use our promo code ("top100project"). We'd also love it if you would rate us and tweet things to us (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis) or email us (top100projectpodcast@gmail.com). Oh, one last thing to promote is that Ryan talks about sports flicker shows on "Scoring At The Movies".

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“My Man Godfrey” is a classic screwball comedy from 1936.  Filmed and set during the Great Depression, it stars William Powell as Godfrey, a “forgotten man”:  one of the millions of unemployed and down-and-out at the time.  Carol Lombard co-stars as the daughter of wealthy family who soon employ Godfrey as their butler.  Both Powell and Lombard reprised their roles for this episode of “The Lux Radio Theater.” The Lux Radio Theater May 9, 1938 “My Man Godfrey” 2:48

This week we cover Gregory La Cava's screwball classic, "My Man Godfrey."  We discuss the casting and production of the film, then we break it down beat by beat and have a fun conversation about what we liked.  After that, we each pair the film with another film for two double bills. Thank you for listening!Created by Spike Alkire & Jake KelleyTheme Song by Breck McGough

Screwball month continues with a look at Gregory la Cava's My Man Godfrey. Based on the novel and co-written by Eric Hatch, the film stars William Powell as the titular Godfrey. He's a forgotten man, living in a Hooverville in New York City where he's picked up by a bunch of swells out on a scavenger hunt. Bringing in a forgotten man will net a lot of points and help Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) win the game. In return, she hires Godfrey as a butler to the wacky Bullock family. And, of course, hilarity ensues...Kat Ellinger and Maurice Bursztynski join Mike to discuss the original adaptation as well as the 1957 version with David Niven and June Allyson.

Screwball month continues with a look at Gregory la Cava's My Man Godfrey. Based on the novel and co-written by Eric Hatch, the film stars William Powell as the titular Godfrey. He's a forgotten man, living in a Hooverville in New York City where he's picked up by a bunch of swells out on a scavenger hunt. Bringing in a forgotten man will net a lot of points and help Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) win the game. In return, she hires Godfrey as a butler to the wacky Bullock family. And, of course, hilarity ensues...Kat Ellinger and Maurice Bursztynski join Mike to discuss the original adaptation as well as the 1957 version with David Niven and June Allyson.

We talk about the amazing costume designer Sandy Powell who recently talked about her work at the Victoria & Albert Museum. See links below. We'd also love you to check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/bandeapartpodcast You Must Remember This, ‘Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper (The Queer, Female Film Producer You've Never Heard Of, Episode 5)', (31 May 2021): http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2021/5/5/gossip-girls-queer-film-producer-5 Walter Lang (director), Travis Banton (Miss Lombard's gowns), Brymer (other gowns), ‘Love Before Breakfast' (1936): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027908/ Gregory La Cava (director), Travis Banton (Miss Lombard's gowns), Brymer (other gowns), ‘My Man Godfrey' (1936): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028010/ Richard Dyer, ‘White', Routledge (2017, first published 1997): https://www.routledge.com/White-Twentieth-Anniversary-Edition/Dyer/p/book/9781138683044 Past event: ‘Online Talk: Sandy Powell in Conversation', Victoria & Albert Museum (7 November 2021): https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/awz4mQnapkN/online-talk-sandy-powell-in-conversation Sandy Powell: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694309/ Sandy Powell's Autograph Suit auctioned at Phillips in 2020: https://www.phillips.com/detail/sandy-powell/UK090320/1 The Female Lead: https://www.thefemalelead.com/about-us Piere Bourdieu, Yvette Delsaut, ‘Le couturier et sa griffe: contribution à une théorie de la magie', Actes de la Recherche en Siences Sociales (1-1, 1975): https://www.persee.fr/doc/arss_0335-5322_1975_num_1_1_2447 Colleen Kelsey, ‘Fashioning Sandy Powell', Interview (18 February 2016): https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/sandy-powell ‘Behind the Seams: An interview with Sandy Powell', podcast episode (7 June 2020): https://www.angelsbehindtheseams.com/podcast/episode0010/ ‘Emily Blunt on the costumes of “Mary Poppins Returns”', Variety Artisans (20 December 2018): https://youtu.be/BiYgPfpjSCk Julie Miller, ‘How Sandy Powell, Oscar-Winning Costume Designer, Ventured Outside Her Comfort Zone', Vanity Fair (6 November 2017): https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/wonderstruck-sandy-powell ‘The Rake's Progress: An Introduction', Glyndebourne (23 August 2010) – shows David Hockney's designs: https://youtu.be/DxeeWlp4AZ8 Alex Marshall, ‘Lindsay Kemp, Dancer Who Taught David Bowie, Is Dead at 80', New York Times (29 August 2018): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/obituaries/lindsay-kemp-dead.html ‘Lindsay Kemp Dies at 80', Gramilano (25 August 2018): https://www.gramilano.com/2018/08/lindsay-kemp-dies-at-80/ Kazuo Ono, ‘The Dead Sea' (1980s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUjhQLB0hXY

This week on And the Runner-Up Is, Kevin welcomes Izzy from the Be Kind Rewind YouTube channel to discuss the 1936 Oscar race for Best Actress, where Luise Rainer won for her performance in "The Great Ziegfeld," beating Irene Dunne in "Theodora Goes Wild," Gladys George in "Valiant Is the Word for Carrie," Carole Lombard in "My Man Godfrey," and Norma Shearer in "Romeo and Juliet." We discuss all of these performances and discuss why the confirmed runner-up was the runner-up. 0:00 - 7:35 - Introduction 7:36 - 23:13 - Irene Dunne 23:14 - 36:59 - Gladys George 37:00 - 54:04 - Carole Lombard 54:05 - 1:06:53 - Norma Shearer 1:06:54 - 1:18:39 - Luise Rainer 1:18:40 - 1:36:17 - Why Luise Rainer won / Twitter questions 1:36:18 - 1:42:24 - Why was ____ the runner-up? Support And the Runner-Up Is on Patreon at patreon.com/andtherunnerupis! Follow Kevin Jacobsen on Twitter Follow Izzy on Twitter Follow And the Runner-Up Is on Twitter and Instagram Theme/End Music: "Diamonds" by Iouri Sazonov Additional Music: "Storming Cinema Ident" by Edward Blakeley Artwork: Brian O'Meara

Today is the 113th birthday of Carole Lombard. My Man Godfrey is on of my all-time favorite movies and that is due in a large part to Carole Lombard. She is perfection. Her life story is one of those that even Hollywood couldn't make up and have people believe it. The world is a better place because she was in it and still feels the loss that she has left. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://waldina.com/2021/10/06/happy-113th-birthday-carole-lombard/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/waldina/message

My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, who had been briefly married years before appearing together in the film.[2][5] The screenplay for My Man Godfrey was written by Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by La Cava, based on 1101 Park Avenue, a short novel by Eric S. Hatch. The story concerns a socialite who hires a derelict to be her family's butler, and then falls in love with him. In 1999, the original version of My Man Godfrey was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film was remade in 1957 with June Allyson and David Niven in the starring roles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Man_Godfrey

Dani and Nick return for the twelfth episode and season finale of season two of KINOTOMIC.This episode we talk about 'My Man Godfrey', directed by Gregory La Cava, and starring Carole Lombard and William Powell; and 'Palm Springs, directed by Max Barbakow and starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti.In this episode we discuss female-led comedy films, the nature of a time-loop movie, and reflect on the season gone.Many thanks for listening! Don't panic, we will be back!!'My Man Godfrey' review by Roger EbertTwitter: @kinotomicContact us: kinotomic@gmail.com

William Powell and Carole Lombard star in this screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey (1936). Meet the Bullock family - they are rather crazy. Bless Godfrey for putting up with them.

In this episode, Jeff and Shanna review Ryan Reynolds's latest action comedy, Free Guy. They also count down their favorite comedies. You'll also hear discussions about Netflix's Teenage Bounty Hunters and Robin Wright's directorial debut, Land. Be sure to check out the Bonus Episode: Fall Movie Preview. Next time on The Movie Lovers: Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Film Faves: Martial Arts. Look for it on Tuesday, 9/14. Show Notes • Opening and Introduction • The Week in Review (0:0:56) o Shanna's Week:  Teenage Bounty Hunters o Our Week: (0:04:09)  Land • The Main Event: Free Guy (0:09:46) o The Good o The Bad o Spoilers and Final Thoughts (0:30:20) • Film Faves: Comedies (0:46:32) • Where You Can Find Us and Ending (1:40:01) Shanna's Favorite Comedies: 12. Groundhog Day (1993) 11. Crazy Rich Asians (2018) – HBO Max 10. 2 Days in New York (2010) – Prime 9. Tropic Thunder (2008) – Prime 8. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) 7. The Producers (1968) 6. Elf (2003) – HBO Max 5. Office Space (1999) 4. Tootsie (1982) 3. Ghostbusters (2016) 2. Spy (2015) 1. Bad Moms (2016) Jeff's Favorite Comedies: 12. Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) – Disney+ 11. Spaceballs (1987) 10. My Man Godfrey (1936) – Prime 9. City Slickers (1991) – HBO Max 8. The Producers (1968) 7. Clueless (1995) – HBO Max 6. Harvey (1950) 5. Wayne's World (1992) 4. Arsenic & Old Lace (1944) 3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) – Netflix 2. Broadcast News (1987) – HBO Max 1. Modern Times (1936) – HBO Max

On the August 30, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by news editor Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they've been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter:  At The Water Cooler: What we've been Doing:  What we've been Reading:  What we've been Watching:Ben watched Riders of Justice, My Man Godfrey, Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles, and The Package. Hoai-Tran watched Dear Evan Hansen, Annette, Beastars season 2, finished Evil season 1. What we've been Eating:  What we've been Playing:  Also mentioned:      All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today's show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.  You can subscribe to /Film Daily on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS).  Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, tell your friends and spread the word!  Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo.

Take a romcom and make it *zany* - this week we're talking screwball comedies and the wild antics of the Bullock family in My Man Godfrey. Sam gives some background and manages to stay mostly on topic - she even bookmarks two convos for later! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/me-vs-you/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/me-vs-you/support

Out of the many actors we've honored on The Podcastio, William Powell is definitely in my top three. He's charming, hilarious and charismatic, like what more could you ask for in a moustachioed legend?! I brought the Podcastio's William Powell expert, Brody, who was last on when we covered My Man Godfrey. Follow Brody on IG: @illuminatedbarber Find the Podcastio on Twitter and Instagram: TW: @MPodcastio IG: @MoustachioedPodcastio The Moustachioed Podcastio is the weird uncle of the wonderful PodMoth Media Network. Check out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/ TW: @PodMothNetwork IG: @PodMoth

Looking for the complete opposite of last months film, Lydia and Christopher see what is up with My Man Godfrey. This one falling under our ‘abandoned’ film requirements for the show. (And we got a great email from a listener!) Promo: The Time Shifters Podcast (http://www.timeshifterspodcast.com) Visit our TeePublic store! (https://www.teepublic.com/stores/tsp-oe-podcast-store) Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/KP7pxGurKT […]

MY MAN! On this episode of The Snub Club, the fam is talking about 1936's My Man Godfrey. Directed by Greogory La Cava and starring podcast favorite William Powell, My Man Godfrey was nominated for six Academy Awards but was forgotten at the ceremonies. In this episode, Danny, Sarah, and Caleb discuss forgotten men, poverty tourism, and a pretty cool opening credits sequence.     The Snub Club is a biweekly podcast about cinema history where we discuss the film from every year's Academy Awards with the most nominations but no wins. Hosted by Danny Vincent, Sarah Knauf, and Caleb Bunn!   Follow us everywhere! Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/SnubClubPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesnubclubpodcast/ Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=108436691341808&id=108435618008582&substory_index=0

EPISODE #314-- Listen to these screwballs go screwball with 1936's MY MAN GODFREY. Cruz and James also talk about LE SAMOURAI (1967), MATEWAN (1987), and THE HOT ROCK (1972)-- all of which are (currently) available on the Criterion Channel, the Criterion Collection, and/or HBO Max! Donate to the cause at Patreon.com/Quality. Follow James on Twitter @kislingtwits and on Instagram @kislingwhatsit or on gildedterror.blogspot.com. You can watch Cruz and Alexis Simpson on You Tube in "They Live Together." Thanks to our artists Julius Tanag (http://www.juliustanag.com) and Sef Joosten (http://spexdoodles.tumblr.com). 

We touch down on “Cruella,” “Mare of Easttown,” “The Sister,” “Sons of Sam,” classics old (“My Man Godfrey”) and new (“Julie and Julia”) with a soupcon of chat about Meryl Streep.

Lux Radio Theatre from November 9 1954.  My Man Godfrey.  

William Powell and Carole Lombard star in the romantic comedy My Man Godfrey (1936). It's a zany love story between a grounded, sophisticated butler and the borderline insane family he works for. What more could we want?

We're taking a little break before we get into season three with a romantic comedies quiz for (the day after) Valentine's Day! We've got three rom-com heads Greta, Sarika, and Meredith to test the knowledge of the best and worst of the genre! Lovelorn confessions on airplanes, iconic (if a little bit modified) lovey-dovey quotes, and your favorite cinematic meet-cutes all pop up in today's game. We get into all the clichés, debate the best Nancy Meyers kitchen, and one of our players will be crowned champion after a fierce lightning round that truly runs the rom-com gamut. We'll see you next week for season three! Don't miss it! Support Us On Patreon

We're taking a little break before we get into season three with a romantic comedies quiz for (the day after) Valentine's Day! We've got three rom-com heads Greta, Sarika, and Meredith to test the knowledge of the best and worst of the genre! Lovelorn confessions on airplanes, iconic (if a little bit modified) lovey-dovey quotes, and your favorite cinematic meet-cutes all pop up in today's game. We get into all the clichés, debate the best Nancy Meyers kitchen, and one of our players will be crowned champion after a fierce lightning round that truly runs the rom-com gamut.Support Us On Patreon

We're taking a little break before we get into season three with a romantic comedies quiz for (the day after) Valentine's Day! We've got three rom-com heads Greta, Sarika, and Meredith to test the knowledge of the best and worst of the genre! Lovelorn confessions on airplanes, iconic (if a little bit modified) lovey-dovey quotes, and your favorite cinematic meet-cutes all pop up in today's game. We get into all the clichés, debate the best Nancy Meyers kitchen, and one of our players will be crowned champion after a fierce lightning round that truly runs the rom-com gamut. NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

Zach welcomes to the show Phil Vecchio (The Mandarian Orange Show, Alex P. Keaton Is My Friend) to laugh andContinue readingEp. 10: ‘My Man Godfrey (1936)’ or ‘The Carlo Show’

Really classed it up for this episode. Brody (@illuminatedmanuscript) aka Vintage B, brings her knowledge of film, fashion and scavenger hunt items to the show. We are honoring moustachioed legend William Powell in the film, My Man Godfrey (1936). I won't lie, I didn't think this movie would actually make me laugh, but it totally did. Carlo may be one of the oddest characters that's been talked about on the podcastio.

My Man Godfrey is the comedy story of an eccentric rich family and all begins with a game of “scavenger hunt” in which you have to find something that nobody wants. Miss Irene, flighty socialite heiress finds Godfrey a down-and-out “forgotten man” at a dump and feeling sorry about the way her family ridiculed him she hires him as the family butler. His humility, honesty, directness and outlook have him teaching the whole family a thing or two about life. Duration: 55:53 Broadcast Date: 9th May 1938

Melanie phones in on a circa nineteen-ought-six laptop; Ed and Melanie discuss 1936's MY MAN GODFREY. Send podcast comments and suggestions to MelandEd@whothehellarewe.com Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

On this week’s episode, Steve, Dana, and Julia are joined by Slate’s music critic Carl Wilson to take on Taylor Swift’s Folklore. Then, the panelists discusses school reopenings, riffing off of Dana’s recent op-ed for the Washington Post. Finally, they break down this week’s comfort watch—the 1936 screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey. In Slate Plus, the hosts are joined by Slate staff writer Lili Loofbourow to discuss her recent pieces on cancel culture and online debate. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Culture Gabfest each episode, and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Other items discussed in this show: “Taylor Swift’s New Album Reveals That Social Distancing Has Served Her Well” by Carl Wilson in Slate “Held back: As parents realize how badly the U.S. botched the next school year, we’re furious” by Dana Stevens in the Washington Post “The Cancel Culture Trap” by Lili Loofbourow in Slate “Illiberalism Isn’t to Blame for the Death of Good-Faith Debate” by Lili Loofbourow in Slate Endorsements: Dana: Dana’s original drink “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison,” inspired by a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem. To make the cordial, boil a 2:1 ratio of lime juice to water on stove until reduced to half. Sweeten to taste. Mix with bourbon or rye whiskey. Throw in basil or mint leaf as garnish. Julia: Strand by the Spinanes, especially “Winter on Ice.” Steve: “Publish and Perish” by Agnes Callard in the Point. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro Music: Back to Silence by OTE   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s episode, Steve, Dana, and Julia are joined by Slate’s music critic Carl Wilson to take on Taylor Swift’s Folklore. Then, the panelists discusses school reopenings, riffing off of Dana’s recent op-ed for the Washington Post. Finally, they break down this week’s comfort watch—the 1936 screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey. In Slate Plus, the hosts are joined by Slate staff writer Lili Loofbourow to discuss her recent pieces on cancel culture and online debate. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Culture Gabfest each episode, and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Other items discussed in this show: “Taylor Swift’s New Album Reveals That Social Distancing Has Served Her Well” by Carl Wilson in Slate “Held back: As parents realize how badly the U.S. botched the next school year, we’re furious” by Dana Stevens in the Washington Post “The Cancel Culture Trap” by Lili Loofbourow in Slate “Illiberalism Isn’t to Blame for the Death of Good-Faith Debate” by Lili Loofbourow in Slate Endorsements: Dana: Dana’s original drink “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison,” inspired by a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem. To make the cordial, boil a 2:1 ratio of lime juice to water on stove until reduced to half. Sweeten to taste. Mix with bourbon or rye whiskey. Throw in basil or mint leaf as garnish. Julia: Strand by the Spinanes, especially “Winter on Ice.” Steve: “Publish and Perish” by Agnes Callard in the Point. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro Music: Back to Silence by OTE  

On this week’s episode, Steve, Dana, and Julia are joined by Slate’s music critic Carl Wilson to take on Taylor Swift’s Folklore. Then, the panelists discusses school reopenings, riffing off of Dana’s recent op-ed for the Washington Post. Finally, they break down this week’s comfort watch—the 1936 screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey. In Slate Plus, the hosts are joined by Slate staff writer Lili Loofbourow to discuss her recent pieces on cancel culture and online debate. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Culture Gabfest each episode, and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Other items discussed in this show: “Taylor Swift’s New Album Reveals That Social Distancing Has Served Her Well” by Carl Wilson in Slate “Held back: As parents realize how badly the U.S. botched the next school year, we’re furious” by Dana Stevens in the Washington Post “The Cancel Culture Trap” by Lili Loofbourow in Slate “Illiberalism Isn’t to Blame for the Death of Good-Faith Debate” by Lili Loofbourow in Slate Endorsements: Dana: Dana’s original drink “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison,” inspired by a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem. To make the cordial, boil a 2:1 ratio of lime juice to water on stove until reduced to half. Sweeten to taste. Mix with bourbon or rye whiskey. Throw in basil or mint leaf as garnish. Julia: Strand by the Spinanes, especially “Winter on Ice.” Steve: “Publish and Perish” by Agnes Callard in the Point. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro Music: Back to Silence by OTE   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Jeff and Shanna share their thoughts on Hamilton from 4th of July weekend, review The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for its 100th Anniversary, and finish up their march backwards through time with a countdown of their favorite 1930s movies! Next time on The Movie Lovers: now that we've completed our journey going backwards through time we'll discuss our major Blindspots and count down our favorite Discoveries during the journey. Look for that on Tuesday, 8/4. Show Notes • Opening and Introduction • The Week in Review (0:01:52) o Our Week:  Hamilton • The Main Event: 100th Anniversary of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (0:15:31) o The Good o The Bad o Spoilers and Final Thoughts (0:42:55) • Film Faves: 1930s Movies (0:55:43) • Where You Can Find Us and Ending (1:57:17) Shanna's Fave 1930s Movies: 12. The Wizard of Oz (1939) 11. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 10. The Invisible Man (1933) 9. Heidi (1937) 8. The Blue Angel (1930) 7. Footlight Parade (1933) 6. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 5. Modern Times (1936) 4. Bringing Up Baby (1938) 3. Boys Town (1938) 2. The Women (1939) 1. The Thin Man (1934) Jeff's Fave 1930s Movies: 12. Dracula (1931) 11. Duck Soup (1933) 10. Frankenstein (1931) 9. Stagecoach (1939) - Prime 8. Bringing Up Baby (1938) 7. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 6. The Thin Man (1934) 5. My Man Godfrey (1936) 4. A Night at the Opera (1935) 3. King Kong (1933) 2. Modern Times (1936) 1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Screwball comedy and Depression-era inequity meet in “My Man Godfrey” (1935). William Powell is experiencing the Depression first-hand, from under a bridge, when a society swell arrives and offers him a few dollars to help her win a scavenger hunt. Before you know it, Powell is buttling in the house of a dysfunctional wealthy family. Hilarity, and the politics of class follow. Carole Lombard, William Powell, Alice Brady and Gail Patrick are all marvelous, as is the rest of the supporting cast. “My Man Godfrey” was nominated for six Oscars, including the first two supporting actor statues ever awarded, but won none. Shelly Brisbin with Erika Ensign, Nathan Alderman and Jean MacDonald.

Screwball comedy and Depression-era inequity meet in “My Man Godfrey” (1935). William Powell is experiencing the Depression first-hand, from under a bridge, when a society swell arrives and offers him a few dollars to help her win a scavenger hunt. Before you know it, Powell is buttling in the house of a dysfunctional wealthy family. Hilarity, and the politics of class follow. Carole Lombard, William Powell, Alice Brady and Gail Patrick are all marvelous, as is the rest of the supporting cast. “My Man Godfrey” was nominated for six Oscars, including the first two supporting actor statues ever awarded, but won none. Host Shelly Brisbin with Erika Ensign, Nathan Alderman and Jean MacDonald.

This week we discuss Metropolitan, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Lucky Bastard, His Girl Friday, Cut and Run, The Corruption of Chris Miller, Cop Land, Hell Fest, Bereavement, How to Make a Doll, My Man Godfrey, Satanis: The Devil's Mass, Some Kind of Hate, The Furies, Maniac, Heathers, Alien Trespass, Chopper and Lake Dead.

On the May 8, 2020 Episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler.   Opening Banter: Brad is off today, he will return next week.   At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing:Hoai-Tran ranked Pixar movies in the Watcher Top 5 Beatdown What we’ve been Reading:Ben has been reading Wild Cards Vol. 1 What we’ve been Watching:Peter and Ben watched The Half of It HT and Ben watched Never Have I Ever  Peter watched the Westworld finale and the Clone Wars series finale. Jacob watched Blood Quantum, Underwater, Bloodshot, Chasing Tyson, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and True Lies. Chris watched Dead to Me Season 2 and the first Pirates of the Caribbean. Ben watched I Know Where I’m Going, The Last Picture Show, High and Low, Koyaaniqatsi, and finished his Breaking Bad rewatch.  Hoai-Tran watched Den of Thieves, My Man Godfrey, has reached the dreaded Season 4 of Community. What we’ve been Eating:Peter went to Knotts Berry Farm for Mrs. Knotts Fried Chicken. Jacob has been eating Doritos and drinking Mike’s Hard Lemonade like a real trash person.   Other Articles Mentioned: Fire in the Night: The Pre-Eminent Attraction-as-Art   All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.  You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS).  Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word!  Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo.

This week we discuss the new titles opening in our Virtual Screening Room: CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY [3:54] | DEERSKIN [13:08] | BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT [13:56] | THE INFILTRATORS [29:13] | VITALINA VARELA [34:28] We also do a deep dive on our Programmer’s Picks – some additional streaming options to enjoy from home: PEPPERMINT FRAPPE [42:28] | THE YEAR OF THE SEX OLYMPICS [48:18] | MY MAN GODFREY (1936) [59:48]

We get swept up in a sea of emotions with two epic melodramas about adultery.  Show Notes: Adultery happens everywhere! Silsila (https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSilsila_%281981_film%29&t=Mzc4ODY4YTNmYjIxNTQzMjBkYzFjNzY4NWJiNzZhOTBhN2I0Njc1MSw4N2I0MmU4NGFlZDcyOWZiMDU3ZjlmZjU2NWJiY2I4MjcyZDY3MGVh) Art imitating life? 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Hello, romantics! Your host Manish Mathur (@TheManish89) welcomes guest Matt Bowes (@matt_bowes) to discuss the oldest film discussed on the show, so far: 1936’s My Man Godfrey. They dig into this classic, screwball comedy, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, and how its lighthearted touch might just be what we all need in times like these.

After losing our My Man Godfrey episode we're back with another 1939 gem. This episode we respectfully debate and discuss the feminist classic The Women. We talk Norma Shearer, the Bechdel Test, and more.   Want to support Ticklish Business and get access to early episodes and exclusive merchandise? Consider supporting us on Patreon. Our goal is 15 Patrons all new and upgrading Patrons will be receiving a special bonus gift this month!   Next Time: We jump forward to relationships with 1967's Barefoot in the Park.

It took Amanda Goldblatt eight years to write her debut novel, HARD MOUTH. The result is a brilliantly inventive work combining style with emotional impact and classic storytelling. She and James talk about their long friendship, cutting the apocalypse, summoning (or not) imaginary beings, making rules for novels, and remembering the books they read as kids. Plus, Amanda's agent from Frances Goldin Literary Agency, Caroline Eisenmann.  - Amanda Goldblatt: https://amandagoldblatt.com/ Buy HARD MOUTH: Buy HARD MOUTH from your local indie bookstore! Amanda and James discuss:  Washington University  THE CUPBOARD  Eugene Pallette  Caroline Eisenmann  Turner Classic Movies  POND by Claire-Louise Bennett  MY MAN GODFREY  HATCHET by Gary Paulsen  THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON by Johann David Wyss Harry Potter THE HUNGER GAMES  E.T.  J Dilla  VOX  Notorious B.I.G.  Andre 3000  MF Doom  Talib Kweli  Kerri Webster  Gordon Lish  Gary Lutz  Amy Hempel  Sam Lipsyte  Christine Schutt  "The Sentence is a Lonely Place" by Gary Lutz  Jim Shepard  Mary Ruefle  Tim O'Brien  Marilynne Robinson Denis Johnson  Cormac McCarthy  - Caroline Eisenmann: https://goldinlit.com/agents/ Caroline and James discuss:  NOON  James Salyer  Mary Gaitskill  Annie Proulx  Ottessa Moshfegh  Halle Butler  Claire Messud  Nell Zink  Garth Greenwell  Jack Kerouac  Ernest Hemingway  I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM by Peter Kispert  ICM  GOING DUTCH by James Gregor  Simon & Schuster  THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P by Adelle Waldman  THE LONGING FOR LESS: LIVING WITH MINIMALILSM by Kyle Chayka - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Drea and Kristen are joined by Nerdist writer Lindsey Romain to discuss Sharon Tate, melodrama, and the 1967 adaptation of Valley of the Dolls!   Want to support Ticklish Business and get access to early episodes and exclusive merchandise? Consider supporting us on Patreon. Throughout the month of August we'll be doing a Summer Under the Stars Patreon drive. Our goal is 15 Patrons all new and upgrading Patrons will be receiving a special bonus gift this month!   Next Time: We go from melodrama to screwball with a look at 1936's My Man Godfrey.

Sometimes you just need to watch something delightful and frivolous. Screwball comedies like Gregory LaCava’s MY MAN GODFREY (1936) are just the thing. Fueled by a major crush on William Powell, this is one of Ashley’s favorite films. She’s tried to show it to Dave before on a few occasions, but due to circumstances and sleepiness, he’s never made it through until now. On this episode we talk the joys of escapism, the talents of Carole Lombard and finding the right time to introduce your partner to your favorite films. Subscribe in iTunes, Android, or Spotify. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Visit our site: shutupwatchthis.wordpress.com Send your feedback to shutupwatchthis@gmail.com Please consider leaving a review or a star rating on iTunes, so other folks can find us. © 2019 Ashley Carr & Dave Wilson

This week, Rosie Powell (no relation to William Powell) returns to the podcast to discuss a great screwball comedy, Gregory La Cava's MY MAN GODFREY. After you've listened, find The Movie Palace on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. If you'd like to support the show financially, you can do so via Ko-fi.

Patrick and Robyn don't want to live their lives again.Download this episode here. (33.1 MB)Listen to F This Movie! on Stitcher.Also discussed this episode: Free Solo (2018), My Man Godfrey (1936), Torn Curtain (1966), Frenzy (1972), The Trouble With Harry (1955), Family Plot (1976), Trilogy of Terror (1975), The Clovehitch Killer (2018), Looker (1981), My Name is Julia Ross (1945), Waterworld (1995)"Pet Sematary" performed by Sean Keller. But it on Amazon here.

On this edition of Life in the Dark, it's My Man Godfrey in the Academy Award Theater, and a classic Abbott and Costello episode.

Examining Neil Young's Nostrils A New Duo Emerges! Join Aidan and Sarah as they discuss the latest film from the critically adored Steve McQueen, and what they find is that "Widows" is strangest of all beasts - an accessible film (well, accessible for Steve McQueen anyway as that guy has some bleak chops). About half way through the show we have a rather extreme change in tone from mean streets and heists to screwball comedy as Sarah tackles the the Criterion release of "My Man Godfrey" starring William Powell. After that it's Aidan's turn on the movie rodeo, and this week he's got Scorsese in the director's chair with documentary-cum-concert movie "The Last Waltz" - which may be a little out of his comfort zone but oh well … It's in weeks like this that we really earn our moniker of Cinema Eclectica. Did you like what we have to offer? Of course you did, and if you want us to make more then there are a few ways you can show your appreciation. You can share us with your friends, or you can give us a rating on your podcast app of choice. Alternatively (or in addition to if you're of a mind), you can head over to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and send some pennies our way. Until next time, stay well away from Robert Duvall's Fox Collection. #Eclectica #CinemaEclectica #TheGeekShow #SteveMcQueen #Widows #Films #Reviews #MartinScorsese #ScrewballComedy #Comedy #MyManGodfrey #MUBI #CriterionCollection #MastersOfCinema #Music #Documentary #TheLastWaltz #Podcast #Movies

This week, Rob has convinced Austin to watch one of his favorite screwball comedies, ​My Man Godfrey​. This may been a poor choice! (Or the best choice - Cado)​But the main focus in this episode is politics! You want election takes? We got 'em! But first, we need to explore some of the context and history of this political moment by taking a look at McKay Coppins' profile of Newt Gingrich and the brand of politics and the anxieties he represents.Discussed: The Man Who Broke Politics (article at The Atlantic), 2018 election results, My Man Godfrey (Criterion Collection) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Movie Madness Podcast returns to its regularly scheduled broadcast getting caught up on the latest in Blu-rays and physical media with Sergio Mims. On this episode they cover an array of Criterion as well as the latest from Indicator and Arrow. They delve into the great new Universal Monsters blu-ray set, why Solo: A Star Wars Story failed at the box office and the bizarre circumstances that led Erik to see the infamous Cabin Boy which definitely has one supporter on this show.   Criterion (Andrei Rublev, My Man Godfrey, A Raisin in the Sun, The Tree of Life) Indicator (Absolution, The Collector, The Mind of Mr. Soames) Disney (Solo: A Star Wars Story) Arrow (Deep Red, The Hired Hand) Kino (Bat 21, Cabin Boy) Universal (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Universal Monsters Classic Collection)  

Paul Hogan and Crocodile Dundee are coming back (for real this time), The Shining is getting a sequel and Tom and Dave talk about the movie everyone is talking about so they talk about it too: Hereditary. Also: Lawrence of Arabia, The Great Escape, The Getaway, My Man Godfrey, Sweetie.

September 11-18, 1970 FALL PREVIEW ALERT! Today Ken welcomes TV writer and author of the new book "Just the Funny Parts", Nell Scovell to the show. Ken and Nell discuss New England, The Marx Brothers, Newhart, Bill Fiends, perfume smelling from the head down, Mark Harmon, the first color show, Batman '66, Get Smart, When Things Were Rotten, Mary Tyler Moore, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Star Trek, My Man Godfrey, Warehouse 13, Murphy Brown, Outlander, Fringe, product placement, women in comedy, Designing Women, Carol Burnett, going through the looking glass, JFK Jr., Spy Magazine, the lagoon from Gilligan's Island, Joel Hodgson, TV Wheel, Mad Magazine, parody, Monty Python, Kate & Allie, loving Jane Curtain, SCTV, SNL, Albert Brooks, Obama as comedian, writing jokes for Hillary, the wonders of Caroline Rea, remaking McCloud with Brett Butler, saving up your TV time and dreading The Wire.

Episode 20 of season four features another William Powell (have you tracked down his filmography yet?) film: My Man Godfrey. Gregory La Cava directed a stellar cast in this 1936... Read more »

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."My Man Godfrey (1936) directed by Gregory Lacava.  Starring William Powell and Carole LombardNext time: Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)

On this episode of the Cinemadventure podcast,  Aidan and Blake discuss Gregory La Cava’s 1936 comedy “My Man Godfrey.” Blake uses some colorful analogies to describe the characters, and Aidan questions Muppet physics. Movies recommended on this week’s episode: Rope Burn After Reading Twentieth Century Bringing Up Baby The Lady Eve Next week’s movie: The […]

Ice-blonde with blue piercing eyes and great gams, Carole surprised many with her salty tongue, endless pranks and keen head for business and publicity. A screwball comedy queen, she also had a big heart when it came to looking after everyone she came into contact with, on and off the set. A proto feminist, she strived for better contracts and demanded her way when it came to choosing writers, directors and cinematographers for her projects. Her life was tragically brief so we want to pay homage to this great lady who was really just getting started. In episode 17 we discuss Virtue (1932), No Man of Her Own (1932) and My Man, Godfrey (1936). Sources: Bogdanovich, P. (1997) Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors New York: Ballantine Books. Carman, E. (2016) Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System. Austin: University of Texas Press. My Man Godfrey (1936) Dir. Gregory La Cava [YouTube] Universal Pictures. No Man of Her Own (1932) Dir. Wesley Ruggles [DVD] Paramount Pictures. Swindell, L. (1975) Screwball: The Life of Carole Lombard Brattleboro: Echo Point Books and Media. Virtue (1932) Dir. Edward Buzzell [DVD] Columbia Pictures. Ott W. Frederick. (1972) The Films of Carole Lombard: The Citadel Press http://sensesofcinema.com/2011/cteq/my-man-godfrey/

Programa dedicado a las "Screwball Comedy", con películas como My Man Godfrey (1936), Bringing Up Baby (1938) y The Philadelphia Story (1940). Además con las secciones de Soundtracks, Los Parecidos, Realizadores a Seguir y Lo Que Vimos en la Semana.

Programa dedicado a las "Screwball Comedy", con películas como My Man Godfrey (1936), Bringing Up Baby (1938) y The Philadelphia Story (1940). Además con las secciones de Soundtracks, Los Parecidos, Realizadores a Seguir y Lo Que Vimos en la Semana.

Today we're launching The Old Hollywood Times official podcast with an episode dedicated to the career and death of Carole Lombard. In this episode, host Wesley Emblidge talks with Dr. Emily Carman, professor of film studies at Chapman University's Dodge College, whose book “Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System” looks partly at Lombard's career, and how she worked as a freelance agent rather than with one studio. We discuss this, along with one of our favorite Lombard films, “My Man Godfrey”, in the episode. 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:02:50 - Discussing Lombard's Career 00:30:45 - Discussing “My Man Godfrey” For other podcasts and more: http://www.oldhollywoodtimes.com Buy Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System here: http://amzn.to/2iwTyRS

Greg screens La Cava's 1936 classic "My Man Godfrey."

Fresh off of our discussion of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, we set our sights on My Man Godfrey, another comedy from 1936.  Directed by Gregory La Cava, the film is a satire of the lives of the naive and wealthy family residing in their Park Avenue and the merry misadventures that occur when they employ a new butler, Godfrey, who teaches them a few life lessons before the film's conclusion. La Cava's films are laced with similar social and political satire, such as Gabriel over the White House (1933) and She Married Her Boss (1935).  Commentary aside, My Man Godfrey's true charm is that it still holds up today.  Several editions, many with questionable quality, have been released on DVD, but obviously the Criterion Collection edition remains the best. Have a comment or question for the host?  Email Sean at 1001moviespodcast@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter via @1001moviesPC.

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Academy Award Theatre. October 2, 1946.  "My Man Godfrey". Sponsored by: Squibb. The classic story of the Depression and the Butler found at the city dumps. William Powell.oldtimeradiodvd.com

My Man Godfrey 5/9/38 Lux Radio Theater, one of the genuine classic radio anthology series (NBC Blue Network (1934-1935); CBS (1935-1955), adapted first Broadway stage works, and then (especially) films to hour-long live radio presentations. It quickly became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, running more than twenty years. The program always began with an announcer proclaiming, "Ladies and gentlemen, Lux presents Hollywood!" Cecil B. DeMille was the host of the series each Monday evening from June 1, 1936, until January 22, 1945.