Bonus 09. My Favorite Wife (1940) and Move Over, Darling (1963): Who Would You Commit a Bigamy With?

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This week we’re taking a research-free look at two romantic comedies that combine nineteenth-century tragic poetry with Hollywood’s love of bigamy: My Favorite Wife (1940) and its remake, Move Over, Darling (1963). We discuss our love of Doris Day and ambivalence towards Irene Dunne, the confounding screen dynamic between rumoured real-life couple Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, and whom among both casts we’d invite to our respective Bigamy Squads.

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12. Oscars Moments of Yore: A Twentieth-Century Academy Awards Odyssey

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We’re doing something a little different this week as we explore sixty years of the Oscars, from the anti-union origins of the Academy in the late 1920s to the career-ending broadcast of 1989. Join us for tales of gatecrashers, axes, protesters, decapitations, fascists, streakers, and some good old-fashioned Joan Crawford chaos magic from the very messy history of the best worst awards show we know.

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