Acteurist oeuvre-view Margaret Sullavan Part 8: CRY HAVOC (1943) & NO SAD SONGS FOR ME (1950) + More Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto with Preminger and Verhoeven

Published: Dec. 17, 2021, 7:05 a.m.

We bid Margaret Sullavan a sad farewell with her two final films, Cry 'Havoc' (1943), a very dark WWII propaganda film with an all-female main cast in which the Battle of Bataan meets\xa0Stage Door, and\xa0No Sad Songs for Me\xa0(1950), a peak-crazy woman's picture in the mode of\xa0The Shining Hour\xa0with a slyly progressive screenplay by Howard Koch. Sullavan manages to make having your man stolen from under your nose while dying and fighting fascists/propping up the empty shell-men of post-war America into a triumphant art form. Then: we give our Top 5 Sullavan performances. And in the Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, we discuss and spoil Verhoeven's lesbian nuns/nympho mystic movie,\xa0Benedetta\xa0(2021), and Preminger's glorious film noir\xa0Fallen Angel\xa0(1945).

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Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 CRY HAVOC (1943) [dir. Richard Thorpe]\xa0

0h 20m 16s:\xa0\xa0\xa0 \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 NO SAD SONGS FOR ME (1950) [dir. Rudolph Mat\xe9]

0h 38m 54s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Margaret SullavanTop Fives

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