Podcasts TV There's Sometimes a Buggy Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year MGM 1945: THE CLOCK & YOLANDA AND THE THIEF + FEAR AND MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO Ernst Lubitsch retrospective at TIFF Cinematheque, Part I

Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year MGM 1945: THE CLOCK & YOLANDA AND THE THIEF + FEAR AND MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO Ernst Lubitsch retrospective at TIFF Cinematheque, Part I

Published: Dec. 15, 2023, 5:07 a.m.

In this week's MGM 1945 episode, a Vincente Minnelli double feature: The Clock, a wartime romantic drama with two very intense stars, Judy Garland and Robert Walker, that doubles as a love poem to New York City; and a Technicolor musical fantasy about, in Dave's words (more or less), "A woman who wants to bleep an angel," starring Lucille Bremer as the woman and Fred Astaire as the angel. And in Fear and Moviegoing in\xa0Toronto, four Lubitsch movies over two weekends:\xa0To Be or Not to Be,\xa0The Love Parade,\xa0Heaven Can Wait, and\xa0Ninotchka. Play "Masterpiece or Meh?" with Elise with these six movies, and hear Dave defend two "mehs" as "masterpieces"! (Or "meh-sterpieces"?) (No, "masterpieces"!)

Time Codes:

0h 00m 45s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 MGM/Hollywood Overview, 1945

0h 04m 27s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE CLOCK [dir. Vincente Minnelli]

0h 40m 20s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 YOLANDA & THE THIEF [dir. Vincente Minnelli]

0h 56m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto \u2013 Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective at TIFF Cin\xe9math\xe8que, Part I: To Be Or Not To Be, The Love Parade, Heaven Can Wait, and Ninotchka

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

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0\xa0

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