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In this\xa0Paramount\xa01946 episode we look at two movies featuring Veronica Lake which otherwise could not be more dissimilar:\xa0Miss Susie Slagle's\xa0(directed by John Berry), about the trials of pre-WWI Johns Hopkins medical\xa0students living in a boarding house presided over by Lillian Gish; and famous\xa0Lake/Ladd noir outing,\xa0The Blue Dahlia\xa0(directed by George Marshall and written by Raymond Chandler). We discuss the potential influence of the leftists involved in making\xa0Miss Susie Slagle's\xa0on its portrayal of race and gender and debate the amount of damage done to\xa0The Blue Dahlia\xa0by the studio-mandated change to the plot. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we take a brief look at three very different movies: Tarkovsky's\xa0Nostalghia\xa0(stolen by a German Shepherd),\xa0Joseph L. Mankiewicz's\xa0A Letter to Three Wives\xa0(stolen by Linda Darnell), and Douglas Sirk's\xa0All I Desire\xa0(starring Barbara Stanwyck).\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 00m 35s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 MISS SUSIE SLAGLE\u2019S [dir. John Berry]

0h 27m 06s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE BLUE DAHLIA [dir. George Marshall]

0h 48m 13s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto \u2013 Nostalghia (1983) by Andrei Tarkovsky; A Letter to Three Wives (1948) by Joseph L. Mankiewicz; and All I Desire (1953) by Douglas Sirk

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

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

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