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Ep 40: Evelyn Keyes in The Prowler (1951)


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Joseph Losey’s creepy noir stars Evelyn Keyes as an unhappy wife who spends every night alone, a captive audience to her husband’s voice on the radio. Losey’s picture blends a thoughtful social critique, which anticipates ‘the problem that has no name’, as well as men who chase material wealth, and the pernicious way the line between entertainment and advertisement is blurred by the media. I close the episode with two chapters from Scarlet O’Hara’s Younger Sister, the juicy bestseller from Evelyn Keyes, where she recalls the time when her boss Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Studio, vowed to make her a star.
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