Podcasts TV There's Sometimes a Buggy Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year MGM 1942: WOMAN OF THE YEAR & TORTILLA FLAT + Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto 35th Anniversary Screening of Midnight Run (1988)

Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year MGM 1942: WOMAN OF THE YEAR & TORTILLA FLAT + Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto 35th Anniversary Screening of Midnight Run (1988)

Published: Feb. 3, 2023, 7:35 a.m.

Our MGM 1942 episode is a problematic Spencer Tracy double feature in which we're treated to the full range of his persona, from smug saint to semi-demon: George Stevens' brilliant but flawed\xa0Woman of the Year, the first Hepburn-Tracy romantic comedy, and Victor Fleming's Tortilla Flat, in which Tracy co-stars with John Garfield, Akim Tamiroff, and Frank Morgan as John Steinbeck's idea of Monterey, California\xa0paisanos. We try to explain just how\xa0Woman of the Year's humanist critique of feminism ends up going so badly wrong, but defend its infamous ending, before moving on to\xa0Tortilla Flat's critique of the work ethic and property ownership. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we react to a 35th anniversary screening of Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin buddy pic\xa0Midnight Run.

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Time Codes:

0h 00m 45s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 WOMAN OF THE YEAR [dir. George Stevens]

0h 46m 58s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 TORTILLA FLAT [dir. Victor Fleming]

1h 10m 55s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TOROTNTO \u2013 Midnight Run (1988)

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Studio Film Capsules provided by The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

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