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In this week's Jean Arthur Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we look at two more movies from 1935,\xa0Public Hero No. 1\xa0(directed by J. Walter Ruben for MGM) and\xa0Diamond Jim\xa0(directed by A. Edward Sutherland for Universal, with a screenplay by Preston Sturges). In the first, Arthur injects some screwball swagger into a Code-era gangster drama with an FBI agent hero; in the second, she has a dual role as the love(s) of Edward Arnold's life. We consider the qualities Arthur brings to these films, for which she was loaned out by Columbia, and marvel at the dark oddity of\xa0Diamond Jim, made not long before the advent of the post-Laemmle banker regime at Universal that thwarted Preston Sturges' first shot at directing.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s:\xa0 PUBLIC HERO NO. 1 (1935) [dir. J. Walter Ruben]

0h 30m 17s: \xa0DIAMOND JIM (1935) {dir. A. Edward Sutherland]

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