Dodsworth

She was this bubbly, effervescent cha- glass of champagne gal you wanna, you know, take dancing in Palm Beach Story.

And then the very matronly mother in Meet Me in St. Louis, and the love interest in Dodsworth-

Hmm

... which was shot during the custody trial on which all of this is based.

A Russian actress who started out in silent film, and then late into her career, uh, played a lot of older woman roles in Hollywood.

Two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress for 1937's Dodsworth and 1940's Love Affair.

Her only other horror film was 1942's The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, which I've n- I've not read, uh, the original story.

This is a, an Edgar Allan Poe story, a sequel to The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

Uh, big book at the time, also seven nominations, and was number six on the box office that year.

Then you got a movie called Dodsworth, which is the perils of marrying a much younger woman.

Uh, beautifully shot, well acted, epic feeling.

It's a great watch, very satisfying.

Mm-hmm.

Like I said, it's a, it's a mixed bag.

You got The Great Ziegfeld, Anthony Adverse, Dodsworth, Libeled Lady, Mr.

Deeds Goes to Town, Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco, the story of Louis Pasteur, A Tale of Two Cities, and Three Smart Girls.

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Warner Brothers Studios, sound department head Nathan Levinson.

Dodsworth, Goldwyn/United Artists Studio, head of the sound department there is Thomas T. Moulton.

General Spanky, that's MGM, Hal Roach Studio sound department head Elmer A. Raguse.

Mr.

No, I'm losing my mind all kinds of ways.

Art direction is our next category.

Here are the nominees: Anthony Adverse, this was Anton Grot; Dodsworth, for Richard Day; The Great Ziegfeld, Cedric Gibbons, Eddie M- Mizzau, and Edwin B. Willis; Lloyd's of London, this is William S. Darling; The Magnificent Brute, my nickname-

[laughs]

He listed four movies that he deemed perfect.

And it was The Godfather, A Place in the Sun, Dodsworth, and Galaxy Quest.

And like, I'm sorry, I'm not laughing at this necessarily because it's just such a wild take, but it is like, it is so funny to see, you know, like obviously Coppola's classic, you know, the George Stevens movie, A Place in the Sun with Monty Clift and Elizabeth Taylor.

And Doddsworth, which I think is this point at this point, like an underrated William Wyler movie and Galaxy Quest.

And,

yeah after that george stevens was one of the biggest directors in hollywood oh yeah it's amazing you know the directors that came from roach leo mccary and george stevens two of the biggest directors but anthony something you were saying that that interested me about uh the code of uh the you know when the code came in i don't really object to it that much because what i noticed though our movies were getting bigger uh you know they were they're you know more lavish and the writing was more creative you know and you could still make you know by 19 you know 35 was kind of a shaky year but by 36 you were getting some pretty adult content in movies when you consider movies like wife versus secretary with harlow gable merloy and James Stewart, and also, most notably, William Wyler's Dodsworth with Walter Houston and Ruth Chatterton.

Those are very adult films for the time.

And they're very creative.

These are all pretty great films.

Even the Harris, directed by William Wyler, director that we've talked... quite a bit, whether it be the actual Best Picture winners, Mrs. Miniver and The Best Years of Our Lives, or his other films that were nominated but didn't get the wins like Jezebel and The Little Foxes and The Letter and Dodsworth and Dead End and Weathering Heights.

It's just dawning on me that he's probably had a movie nominated pretty much every year at this point.

But once again, The Harris is No Exception was also nominated for Best Picture, didn't get the win.