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EPISODE 39 - “Father Knows Best: Classic Cinema's Best (and Worst!) Dads” - 06/10/2024

When you stop to think about the great fathers of classic cinema, Atticus Finch, the mild-mannered Southern lawyer in “To Kill A Mockingbird” (1962), has to be at the top of the list. But who else would be on that list? And what about the horrible fathers of old Hollywood? As you scramble to find that last-minute tie or cologne for dear old Dad for Father’s Day, make sure you check out this week’s episode, where Steve and Nan celebrate some of old Hollywood’s most memorable fathers — the good and the bad. 

SHOW NOTES: 

Sources:

“20 Best and Worst Movie Fathers,” June 19, 2020, by David Fear, Rolling Stone.com

“Noah Cross (John Huston) Character Analysis: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know,” 

schmoop.com

Yahoo.com

RogerEbert.com

IMDBPro.com;

Wikipedia.com;

Movies Mentioned: 

How Green Was My Valley (1941), starring

Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Donald Crisp, Patric Knowles, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowell, Sara Allgood, and Barry Fitzgerald;

Bicycle Thieves (1948), starring Vittorio De Sica, Enzo Staiola, and Lianella Carell; 

Splendor in the Grass (1961), starring Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zorah Lampert, Sandy Dennis, and Phyllis Diller;

The Heiress (1949), starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Vanessa Brown, and Mona Freeman;

The Swiss Family Robinson (1960), starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, and Janet Munro;

Shane (1953), starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Helfin, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance, Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan, Elisha Cook Jr, and Ellen Corby;

Chinatown (1974), starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, Diane Ladd, and John Hillerman;

Rebel Without A Cause (1955), starring James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper, Jim Backus, Corey Allen, Ann Doran, Nick Adams, William Hopper, and Edward Platt;

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), starring Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O’Brien, Agnes Moorhead, James Craig, Jackie “Butch” Jenkins, Frances Gifford, Morris Carnovsky, and Sara Haden;

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