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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 dissect 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 films that made an impact not only on them but on the film industry as a whole. And yes, a few of the films 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;

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