His Girl Friday #YabtM Episode 131

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944) — The Screwball Story

On this episode I discuss The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944) starring Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, William Demarest, and Diana Lynn.Works Cited:Matthew Bernstein, “‘The Edge of Unacceptability’: Preston Sturges and the PCA,” in ReFocus: The Films of Preston Sturges, ed. Jeff Jaeckle (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2015), pp. 83-106.Diane Jacobs, Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1992).Brian Kellow, Ethel Merman: A Life (New York: Penguin Books, 2008).Otto Friedrich, City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (New York: Harper Perennial, 2014).Michael Slowik, “On Deadline and Reviewed in Pieces: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek and the Production Code Administration,” Film History, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 32-58.Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in his Words (New York: Touchstone, 1991). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934) — The Screwball Story

For the inaugural episode, I dive into Frank Capra’s populist classic, It Happened One Night (1934), starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.Works Cited:Elizabeth Kendall, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002).Richard Maltby, “It Happened One Night: The Recreation of the Patriarch,” in Frank Capra: Authorship and the Studio System, eds. Robert Sklar and Vito Zagarrio (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 130-63.Joseph McBride, Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011).Linda Mizejewski, It Happened One Night (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).Giuliana Muscio, “Roosevelt, Arnold, and Capra (or) the Federalist-Populist Paradox,” in Frank Capra: Authorship and the Studio System, eds. Robert Sklar and Vito Zagarrio (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 164-89. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.