In this episode we discuss the thirteenth Best Picture Winner, Rebecca, David O. Selznick’s second Best Picture win in a row, Walt Disney’s Pinocchio and Fantasia, and Katherine Hepburn’s return to the top with The Philadelphia Story!

**Content Warning** mentions of suicide in relation to the plot of Rebecca**

Other topics include: Charlie Chaplin and The Great Dictator, Leopold Stokowski, United Artists, Laurence Olivier, Alfred Hitchcock, Joan Fontaine, Olivia de Haviland, film history, Hollywood

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