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The Hollywood Studios, Year-By-Year MGM, 1934 The Barretts of Wimpole Street & The Merry Widow

Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 5:46 a.m.

MGM, 1934, and our most mismatched pair of films yet: Sidney Franklin's tale of overheated Victorian repression,\xa0The Barretts of Wimpole\xa0Street, and Lubitsch's lavish, Hollywood-transposed Austro-Hungarian operetta,\xa0The Merry Widow. We discuss Laughton vs. Gielgud, Lubitsch vs. Mamoulian, innuendo in the Year of the Code, and more.\xa0\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s: The Barretts of Wimpole Street (dir: Sidney Franklin)

0h 38m 00s: \xa0The Merry Widow (dir: Ernst Lubitsch)

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