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For our Paramount 1937 episode, we look at two movies starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray: Mitchell Leisen's comedy/melodrama\xa0Swing High, Swing Low\xa0and Wesley Ruggles' screwball comedy\xa0True Confession. Topics include our surprise at Leisen's go-for-broke portrayal of male abjection and MacMurray's risk-taking in\xa0Swing High, Swing Low; the quiet virtues of Paramount's leading men; the moment when John Barrymore became Late Al Pacino; and Lombard's adorable sociopath in\xa0True Confession\xa0as a precursor to Elizabeth Montgomery in\xa0Bewitched. "She's going to FRY!"

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Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 SWING HIGH, SWING LOW [dir. Mitchell Leisen]\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0

0h 40m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 TRUE CONFESSION [dir. Wesley Ruggles]

1h 20m 26s:\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Listener mail on La Marseillaise with Adam

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

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