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For our Universal 1941 Studios Year by Year episode we looked at two films about love and sex by a couple of master filmmakers, Rene Clair's\xa0The Flame of New Orleans, a terrific Bruce Cabot vehicle (Marlene Dietrich is also in it), and Gregory La Cava's\xa0Unfinished Business, a sexually daring romantic drama (with some screwball elements) starring Irene Dunne that manages to seem like a Pre-Code despite the year in which it was made. We dig into the presentation of Theresa Harris's scheming maid in\xa0The Flame of New Orleans, whose aims are much clearer than the ostensible heroine's; and into the painful adult emotions of the brilliant and constantly surprising\xa0Unfinished Business, which get into areas that most people don't want to discuss in real life, let alone see in movies.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS [dir Rene Clair]

0h 33m 08s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 UNFINISHED BUSINESS [dir. Gregory LaCava]

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Studio Film Capsules provided by The Universal Story by Clive Hirschhorn

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

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