On this episode, Nannina drops in to chat to me about two movies which kind of orbit the concept of 'Screwball'.... Holiday (1938, George Cukor) starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994, Joel and Ethan Coen) starring Tim Robbins and Jennifer Jason Leigh. I'm watching Holiday for the first time, Nannina is watching Hudsucker for the first time.... what did we think??? Find out by listening!
0.00 Intro
0.07 Holiday
1.00 The Hudsucker Proxy
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Nannina is a screenwriter, who procrastinates at writing by going down deep research wormholes into alternate dimensions. She supports her writing habit by making coffee, and can be found on Twitter via @NanninaGilder talking about early women filmmakers.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
NOTES
Here's a pretty good overview piece on the reasons why George Cukor might have been 'let go' from Gone With The Wind.
This Salon piece from 2010 is perhaps a good starting point for the 'Magical N' trope that we refer to in discussing Hudsucker (and it namechecks that movie).
