(Episode recorded October 25, 2024)

It's our eighth review of the season, but only our fifth nominee for Outstanding Production at the Sixth Academy Awards. In fact, She Done Him Wrong is the shortest film nominated for the top prize...and the top prize was it's only nomination. The film was adapted from the successful 1928 Broadway play Diamond Lil, penned by and starring Mae West. Despite it's success on the stage, the play was actually banned, which led to multiple issues once production on the film began. Fun fact: this is our first official encounter with Cary Grant for this project!

Our song of the day is a surprise treat, and our history timeline includes veering off into a 1933 true crime segment...related to the death of Knute Rockne?

Books mentioned by Dad:

• Boller, Paul. Hollywood Anecdotes. William Morrow & Company, 1987.
• Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Penguin Random House, 2004.

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