Episode 36: 1939 with Jessica Pickens
A podcast about the great movie years.
Jessica Pickens is a film blogger and historian specializing in World War II-era cinema, movie musicals, and, luckily for us, the films of 1939. She started a side project of watching every damn movie from that greatest of movie years clear back in 2011, so she decided to leave aside the greatest hits of the year (your Wizards of Oz, your Gones with the Wind, etc.) to bring us some of the lesser-known gems she’s discovered in the process. You can read Jessica’s writing over at her blog Comet Over Hollywood, and you’ll find allllllllllll of the 1939 project here.
If you’d like to hear the 1967 show that we mention early on, you can do that here. And if you’d like to hear the “Gossip Girls” mini-series of You Must Remember This, you’ll find those here.
First Love is not streaming or available for digital rental and purchase! But you can watch it on Archive.org and Daily Motion.
In Name Only is available for digital rental or purchase, as is Ninotchka. As is The Rains Came!
However, These Glamour Girls is also MIA digitally. But you can watch it on Archive.org, and don’t worry about the title and captions on the page; it’s in English.
Oh, and as promised, here’s the Oscar-winning animated short The Ugly Duckling:
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