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For this week's Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode we watched two romantic comedies (sort of),\xa0Mister 880\xa0(1950) and\xa0Callaway Went Thataway\xa0(1951), in which Dorothy McGuire assumes a role we haven't seen from her before: the character through whom we register the pathos that the movies explore via the respective plights of Edmund Gwenn's elderly counterfeiter and Howard Keel's TV cowboy impersonator. We focus particularly on\xa0Mister 880, a very unusual comedic drama directed by the great Edmund Goulding, with a screenplay by Robert Riskin, that in certain ways anticipates\xa0Umberto D., and try to grasp the essence of its elusive moral. In just what way does Gwenn's character embody\xa0an admirable form of life?\xa0

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Time Codes:

0h 0m 45s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 MISTER 880 (1950) [dir. Edmund Goulding]

0h 35m 50s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 CALLAWAY WENT THATAWAY (1951) [dirs. Melvin Frank & Norman Panama]

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