Acteurist oeuvre-view Dorothy McGuire Part 1: CLAUDIA (1943) and THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE (1945) + FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO (Delphine Seyrig series)

Published: Jan. 27, 2023, 7:21 a.m.

Our Dorothy McGuire Acteurist Oeuvre-view begins with\xa0Claudia\xa0(1943) and\xa0The Enchanted Cottage\xa0(1945), in both of which she's paired with Robert Young. We talk about the qualities McGuire imported to the screen from the stage role she made famous, in the 1941 play\xa0Claudia, by Rose Franken, David O. Selznick's marketing of them, and the career vicissitudes that possibly negated this nascent persona. After diving deep into the complex psychology of\xa0Claudia, we discuss John Cromwell's great romantic fantasy,\xa0The Enchanted Cottage, and the metaphorical implications of its fairy tale. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, the Delphine Seyrig retrospective continues with Alain Resnais'\xa0Muriel\xa0and Jacques Demy's\xa0Donkey Skin.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 1m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Introduction to Dorothy McGuire

0h 15m 45s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 CLAUDIA (1943) [dir. Edmund Goulding]

0h 45m 23s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE (1945) [dir. John Cromwell]

1h 14m 57s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO \u2013 MURIEL (1962) by Alain Resnais & PEAU D\u2019ANE (1970) by Jacques Demi (From TIFF\u2019s Delphine Seyrig series)

1h 23m 35s: \xa0\xa0\xa0 Listener mail with Simon

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