“STEVE & NAN'S FAVORITE CLASSIC FILMS OF THE 1940s” (048)

From Beneath the Hollywood Sign

EPISODE 48 - “STEVE & NAN'S FAVORITE CLASSIC FILMS OF THE 1940s ” - 08/12/2024

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The 1940s was a phenomenal time for movies. Auteurs like ALFRED HITCHCOCK, GEORGE STEVENS, WILIAM WYLER, and BILLY WILDER were coming into their own with important and personal films that changed the landscape of cinemas. Also, stars like BETTE DAVIS, KATHARINE HEPBURN, CARY GRANT, and HENRY FONDA were defining the screen roles that would make them legends. This week, Nan and Steve will discuss and disect a few of their very favorite films of the most golden of all decades in film.

SHOW NOTES:

Sources:

Preston Sturges By Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words (1991), by Preston Sturges and Sandy Sturges;

George Cukor: A Double Life (2013), by Patrick McGilligan;

Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood’s Legendary Director (2013), by Marilyn Ann Moss;

Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist (2013), by Alan Casty;

Michael Curtiz: A Life In Film (2021), by Alan K. Rode;

Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford (2010), by Donald Spoto;

George Stevens: The Films of a Hollywood Giant (2019), by Neil Sinyard;

Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel (2015), by Wiliam Wellman, Jr;

Stanwyck (1994), by Axel Madsen;

Fonda: My Life (1981), by Henry Fonda;

Ingrid Bergman: My Story (1980), by Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess;

Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise (2020), by Scott Eyman;

Ida Lupino: A Biography (1996), by William Donati;

TCM.com;

IMDBPro.com;

Wikipedia.com;

Movies Mentioned:

Christmas In July (1940), starring Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, William Demarest, Raymond Walburn, Jimmy Conlin, Rod Cameron, and Franklin Pangborn;

Penny Serenade (1941), starring Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, and Edgar Buchanan;

The Lady Eve (1941), starring Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, William Demarest, and Eugene Pallette;

High Sierra (1941), starring Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Cornel Wilde, Arthur Kennedy, Henry Travers, and Alan Curtis;

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Harry Morgan, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn, Jane Darwell, William Eythe, and Harry Davenport;

Gaslight (1944), starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Angela Landbury, and Dame May Witty;

Mildred Pierce (1945), starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Zachary Scott, Jack Carson, eve Arden, and Bruce Bennett;

All The Kings Men (1949), starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dry, Anne Seymour, and John Derek;

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