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This week's Jean Arthur Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode\xa0is a directed-by-Wesley Ruggles double feature of disparate genres: the bigamy farce\xa0Too Many Husbands\xa0and the epic Western\xa0Arizona\xa0(both 1940). Although the films, both with screenplays by Ruggles' frequent collaborator Claude Binyon, interrogate marriage and gender respectively, one ends with the reassertion of patriarchal authority, while the other... fails to stick to its (or her) guns. We talk about Ruggles' special version of the romantic comedy triangle, Jean Arthur's erotic face journeys, and the limits of Hollywood's tolerance for gender nonconformity in female stars.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 1m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 TOO MANY HUSBANDS [dir. Wesley Ruggles]

0h 25m 48s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 ARIZONA [dir. Wesley Ruggles]

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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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