MM19: Hawks Screwballs feat. Theda Hammel & John Early
Added 2024-05-08 11:00:08 +0000 UTCWe’re joined by Theda Hammel & John Early to revisit director Howard Hawks, this time look at two of his classic screwball comedies: 1940’s His Girl Friday and 1938’s Bringing Up Baby. Both feature Cary Grant in complete goofball-mode bedeviled by brassy women who refuse to give him a dang break. His Girl Friday adds the levity of newsroom hijinks while reporting on the impending execution of an accused murderer, while Baby brings us the hilarious light touch of Grant and Katharine Hepburn dealing with a live leopard.
Theda & John’s new movie Stress Positions is in theaters now!
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I get more "Elmer Fudd as a Quaker" from Cary in this one.
Equality State Of Mind
2024-11-25 12:23:05 +0000 UTCThat would have been a very different movie lol
Equality State Of Mind
2024-11-25 12:20:36 +0000 UTCBOOOOOOOO!
Equality State Of Mind
2024-11-25 12:19:05 +0000 UTCHesse's read on Bringing Up Baby would have merit, if Big Pharma hadn't invented anxiety dreams in 1994 (for obvious reasons).
Equality State Of Mind
2024-11-25 12:17:47 +0000 UTCYesss Theda is back
Shelby
2024-05-16 19:51:48 +0000 UTCThe dog WAS the dog in The Thin Man. His real name is "Skippy" but he often went by "Asta" due to how big his role was in The Thin Man: From Wikipedia: Skippy (also known as Asta, 1931–1951) was a Wire Fox Terrier dog actor who appeared in dozens of movies during the 1930s. Skippy is best known for the role of the pet dog "Asta" in the 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, and for his role in the 1938 comedy Bringing Up Baby, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Due to the popularity of The Thin Man role, Skippy is sometimes credited as Asta in public and in other films.
The Children of Jack Acid
2024-05-13 23:52:21 +0000 UTCThere's like 10 Howard Hawks films that I'd have no trouble calling "the greatest film ever made" and that's one of them. That era was a boon for great aviation pictures, high and low. The seedy/sweaty FLIGHT FROM GLORY (Lew Landers), the Hawksian Victor Fleming film TEST PILOT, the prototype for ONLY ANGELS from Hawks himself, the hyperspeed-paced CEILING ZERO, John Ford's AIR MAIL, and a lesser-known one called NIGHT FLIGHT, kind of a forerunner to the 1970 blockbuster AIRPORT, and one of the few films to feature bros John and Lionel Barrymore sharing scenes. It was almost as if, if you made a movie about flyers during the 1930s, you could do no wrong.
Rohmer Simpson
2024-05-11 22:42:56 +0000 UTCWill: “Katherine… is the most frightening, menacing, and dangerous person ever depicted” Psychology
Tvvvv
2024-05-10 20:54:25 +0000 UTCfiller content
buttface
2024-05-10 19:59:04 +0000 UTC“Jennifer Jason lay” 😩
Lady
2024-05-10 12:33:18 +0000 UTC“Only Angels Have Wings-“ is my favorite Howard Hawks film. It was overlooked because it came out in 1939 which was the same year as Gone With the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, and Wizard of Oz.
P$
2024-05-09 23:03:04 +0000 UTCChapo went on Gabrus' podcast??? Crossover I never expected to see. Now just holding out for an episode of Twinnovation with Brace Belden as a guest...
James King
2024-05-09 22:24:53 +0000 UTCI'm going to out myself- when season 2 preview came out I thought they said the baby was a leper...
Warbs
2024-05-09 20:56:47 +0000 UTCplease for the love of god review the thin man series!!!
Ryan Burkhardt
2024-05-09 16:54:09 +0000 UTCLove Theda's laugh
pepperyams
2024-05-09 15:56:24 +0000 UTCSothern Comfort and Extreme Prejudice were pretty cool. I didn't have the chance to watch these first but I don't watch the movies that get ribbed on like Civil War, so figured it was fine.
Dustin Nelson
2024-05-09 09:41:32 +0000 UTCWhere was that "she ---- and he just wants to build dinosaurs" line from Hesse in the timeline? Wanted to use that for something and lost track.
Dustin Nelson
2024-05-09 09:40:02 +0000 UTClove to hear none of you being normal about Cary either
Shivvy
2024-05-09 07:10:07 +0000 UTCAll Cary Grant, all the time!! 🤩😌
Shivvy
2024-05-09 06:51:17 +0000 UTCKatherine Hepburn is definitely Bugs but Cary Grant is daffy duck
Bert
2024-05-09 06:08:42 +0000 UTCcapitalist boot licking drek
tom benander
2024-05-09 04:38:41 +0000 UTCok i have bad news. i just watched bringing up baby, and despite the brilliant casting, the writing was atrocious and inexplicable. and i don't know if the file was corrupted but the colors were so dull, it was practically monochrome. you guys talk about this film like it was a masterpiece. I am sorry to report it's actually drek. absolute drek. give me my two hours back. we should have listened when they panned it on release.
tom benander
2024-05-09 04:37:42 +0000 UTCSub mental oaf is grand.
RG13
2024-05-09 01:28:41 +0000 UTCthought this watching Trouble In Paradise from 1932 recently, how much old fashioned horniness, lewdness and rudeness we were denied documentation of during those crucial ~35 years, and how it might have made everyone a little less psychotically repressed later
Chris Wade
2024-05-08 23:46:31 +0000 UTCif they released a live wild large feline near me it would want to nuzzle and protect me I'm just built different
etienne
2024-05-08 23:07:50 +0000 UTCi would kill or die for the great theda hammel
Giorgiosiwa
2024-05-08 20:56:26 +0000 UTCIs Tom Cruise the last rent-coded Hollywood superstar? Like, others were surely open for business too, but it wasn't incorporated into their brand with an early career striptease.
Jason Matthews
2024-05-08 20:54:56 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Cary Grant leaping in his feathery robe and exclaiming about going gay all of a sudden — there couldn’t be a more cathartic (though temporary) busting through of the stifling Production Code. The history of the Code is so fascinating. Despite the fact that so many masterpieces were made in Hollywood during the MPPC’s heyday, I often wonder how US popular culture might have developed differently without the Code’s infantilizing and squeamish influence during the period when I think movies were at their height of domestic popularity.
emalco
2024-05-08 20:49:19 +0000 UTCtheda is so cool and funny it's unreal
Hannah Blumenfeld
2024-05-08 17:59:40 +0000 UTCMost of the men in Old Hollywood who became stars started out as Cary Grant did: kept boys, hustlers, walkers, gigolos, etc. That's why the image of the strapping young man in Hollywood movies is almost always inherently homoerotic: using the cover of making all the girls swoon and scream (and what better cover than something 100% true) to show off an elite generation of men who sucked their way to their big break. Not entirely unrelated, in the lesser screwball comedy MY FAVORITE WIFE, there's a scene where Cary Grant has visions of Randolph Scott doing acrobatics.
Rohmer Simpson
2024-05-08 15:55:21 +0000 UTCHoly crap Stress Positions looks like a cool movie
George Lochinski
2024-05-08 14:33:20 +0000 UTCfirst documented case of pulling a bad bitch by being autistic
Fingerless
2024-05-08 13:12:22 +0000 UTCon the subject of gorgeous hilarious men who are good at falling over, I've always thought Marcello Mastroianni in LA DOLCE VITA (and, to a lesser degree, 8-1/2) was basically doing a suave Italian version of Cary Grant
Michael S. Judge
2024-05-08 11:56:33 +0000 UTCAt least the movies this week are actually good
Spencer horne
2024-05-08 11:35:14 +0000 UTCThen… Mr. Sweeney didn't have twins?
Rohmer Simpson
2024-05-08 11:18:14 +0000 UTCYes!
claus_mc
2024-05-08 11:13:40 +0000 UTC
