In this episode we discuss the fourteenth Best Picture Winner, How Green Was My Valley, its contentious win over Citizen Kane, the Hollywood sister-feud between Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine, and the animators’ strike at Disney Studios!

Other topics include: Dumbo, Walt Disney, Hollywood feuds, the importance of unions, film history, Orson Welles, Gregg Toland, Maurice Seiderman, unions, Herman Mankiewicz, documentary features

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