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For our Paramount 1943 episode, just a couple of typical comedies, as far as John Douglas Eames is concerned: Preston Sturges'\xa0The Palm Beach Story, starring Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea, a comedy of remarriage in which the screwballs are no longer the central couple, and Mitchell Leisen's\xa0cross-class comedy with a number of twists,\xa0No Time For Love, with Colbert and Fred MacMurray.\xa0We try to figure out what these movies, coming\xa0at the end of the screwball comedy cycle, have to say about love, sex, class, wealth, and gender in America in the early 1940s. And in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment we discuss Merian C. Cooper's relentlessly vicious\xa0King Kong\xa0(1933) as a kind of unconsciously Verhoevian nightmare \u201cfamily film\u201d.

Time Codes:

0h 00m 45s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE PALM BEACH STORY [dir. Preston Sturges]

0h 41m 21s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 NO TIME FOR LOVE [dir. Mitchell Leisen]

1h 07m 23s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto: \xa0King Kong (1933) by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack

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

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

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