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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year MGM 1946: TWO SMART PEOPLE and A LETTER FOR EVIE

Published: March 22, 2024, 4:32 a.m.

This MGM 1946 Studios Year by Year episode is a Jules Dassin double feature that shows the range of the famed blacklistee even during his most constrained studio period: the noirish romantic drama\xa0Two Smart People, about two con artists (Lucille Ball and John Hodiak) and a cop who are all out to con each other; and the remarkable\xa0A Letter for Evie\xa0(starring Marsha Hunt and Hume Cronyn),\xa0a very postmodern (but also hilarious) deconstruction of gender conventions that's also a moving romance.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 00m 35s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 1946 at MGM and Hollywod (per John Douglas Eames)

0h 04m 22s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 TWO SMART PEOPLE [dir. Jules Dassin]\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0

0h 26m 38s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 A LETTER FOR EVIE [dir. Jules Dassin]

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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