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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM – 1946: TWO SMART PEOPLE and A LETTER FOR EVIE
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English - March 22, 2024 04:32 - 1 hour - 40.5 MB - ★★★★ - 14 ratingsTV & Film Society & Culture Philosophy memory timetravel amnesia continuum identity paradox romance thefuture thepast timeline Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This MGM 1946 Studios Year by Year episode is a Jules Dassin double feature that shows the range of the famed blacklistee even during his most constrained studio period: the noirish romantic drama Two Smart People, about two con artists (Lucille Ball and John Hodiak) and a cop who are all out to con each other; and the remarkable A Letter for Evie (starring Marsha Hunt and Hume Cronyn), a very postmodern (but also hilarious) deconstruction of gender conventions that's also a moving romance.
Time Codes:
0h 00m 35s: 1946 at MGM and Hollywod (per John Douglas Eames)
0h 04m 22s: TWO SMART PEOPLE [dir. Jules Dassin]
0h 26m 38s: A LETTER FOR EVIE [dir. Jules Dassin]
Studio Film Capsules provided by The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames
Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler
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