Acteurist Spotlight – Deborah Kerr – Part 1: LOVE ON THE DOLE (1941) and PERFECT STRANGERS (1945)

Our Deborah Kerr Acteurist Spotlight starts strong with two entertaining progressive WWII-era British films, John Baxter's Love on the Dole (1941), a socialist portrayal of working-class life in Manchester during the Great Depression, and Alexander Korda's Perfect Strangers (aka Vacation from Marriage), a sort of comedy of remarriage that envisions a radically new kind of marriage arising out of wartime upheavals in gender roles and middle-class routine. Elise confesses and recants her previous opinion that Deborah Kerr was a solid but slightly boring choice. Time Codes: 0h 00m 25s:       Brief intro – Deborah Kerr 0h 06m 20s:       LOVE ON THE DOLE (1941) [dir. John Baxter] 0h 34m 29s:       PERFECT STRANGERS aka VACATION FROM MARRIAGE (1945) [dir. Alexander Korda] +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring * Capsule reviews from John Springer's Forgotten Films to Remember (Citadel Press, 1980) * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: "Sunday" by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise's piece on Gangs of New York – "Making America Strange Again" * Check out Dave's Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at [email protected] We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!