The Best Poe Movie Ever! (Kinda)

Link to The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe  67 minutes
https://archive.org/details/TheLovesOfEdgarAllanPoe

Link to clip or Jane Darwell in “The Grapes of Wrath”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJLvgWx-h54

Link to clip of Jane Darwell and Julie Andrews in “Mary Poppins”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Wb_sTdJV

In this episode, George talks briefly about the joys (and problems) in doing a comparative look at two great minds - Edgar Poe and C.S. Lewis.

The majority of the episode is dedicated to a look at the classic 1941 film - The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe - while not 100 percent historically accurate in all respects (Poe never met with Jefferson in his office) the movie does a really good job in getting across a tremendous amount of information in an entertaining manner in a little over an hour.  The episode with special kudos for Shepperd Strudwick (who plays Edgar Poe) and the great Jane Darwell (who IS Muddy)

Episode Eighty Five - The Best Poe Movie Ever (Kinda)

What traumas did Edgar Poe and C.S. Lewis both experience?
What did C.S. Lewis think of boarding school?
What are some of the historical inaccuracies in The Loves of
Edgar Allan Poe?
What are some of the good things about The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe?
Who is Harry Morgan?
Did Poe ever meet Jefferson in his office at UVA?
Did Elmyra Roster ever encounter Virginia Clemm on Virginia’s deathbed?
What are believed to be Poe’s last words?
Who is the standout performer in The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe/

00:11 Introduction
00:38 Two Traumas
04:41 Libraries
04:55  “The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe” introduction
10:19  Movie background and early life of Poe
13:00 Colonel Potter from MASH and Poe!   
13:50 Poe’s youth, the University of Virginia, and West Point
19:57 Baltimore, Dickens, and The Raven23:20 Poe’s Death
24:04 Overall view of The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
25:31 Shepperd Strudwick as Poe
26:13 Jane Darwell as Muddy
28:30 Future podcasts
29:00 Sources
31:11 Outro