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For our RKO 1939 episode, a Directed by Garson Kanin double feature:\xa0Bachelor Mother, starring\xa0Ginger Rogers as an unwed department store clerk accused of motherhood; and\xa0The Great Man Votes, starring John Barrymore as an alcoholic\xa0intellectual struggling to raise two children, including the most precocious\xa0child actor of them all, Virginia Weidler (of\xa0Philadelphia\xa0Story\xa0fame). We discuss the "plausible deniability" structure of\xa0Bachelor Mother\xa0and the kind of social\xa0commentary it permits, and the particular brand of autobiographical pathos and dishevelled charm that Barrymore brings to the part of an eccentric, melancholy widower.\xa0

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Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s:\xa0 \xa0 BACHELOR MOTHER [dir. Garson Kanin]\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0

1h 04m 48s:\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE GREAT MAN VOTES [dir. Garson Kanin]\xa0\xa0

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Studio Film Capsules provided by The RKO Story by Richard B. Jewell & Vernon Harbin

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

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