Podcasts TV There's Sometimes a Buggy Acteurist Oeuvre-view Dorothy McGuire Part 10: THIS EARTH IS MINE (1959) and A SUMMER PLACE (1959)

Acteurist Oeuvre-view Dorothy McGuire Part 10: THIS EARTH IS MINE (1959) and A SUMMER PLACE (1959)

Published: July 14, 2023, 5:44 a.m.

This week's Dorothy McGuire episode continues the trend of unusual\xa0wife and mother roles with two family melodramas from 1959, Henry King's tale of an economically and psychologically troubled viticulture dynasty,\xa0This Earth Is Mine, and Delmer Daves' frank, sex-positive look at sexual mores among the respectable middle classes during the late 1950s, A Summer Place, which had contemporary reviewers reaching for the smelling salts. Whether playing a sympathetic adulteress who has to deal with her teenage son's inconvenient libido in addition to her own or a love-thwarted wife who wants to appropriate the family patriarch role, McGuire is a far cry from the typical housewife of 50s TV.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 00m 45s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THIS EARTH IS MINE (1959) [dir. Henry King]

0h 34m 03s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 A SUMMER PLACE (1959) [dir. Delmer Daves]

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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project \u2013 a discussion of Late Spring

* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: \u201cSunday\u201d by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of\xa0The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise\u2019s piece on Gangs of New York \u2013 \u201cMaking America Strange Again\u201d

* Check out Dave\u2019s Robert Benchley blog \u2013 an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist\u2019s 2000+ pieces as he can locate \u2013 Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!\xa0

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