The Hollywood Studios, Year-By-Year – MGM, 1934 – The Barretts of Wimpole Street & The Merry Widow

MGM, 1934, and our most mismatched pair of films yet: Sidney Franklin's tale of overheated Victorian repression, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, and Lubitsch's lavish, Hollywood-transposed Austro-Hungarian operetta, The Merry Widow. We discuss Laughton vs. Gielgud, Lubitsch vs. Mamoulian, innuendo in the Year of the Code, and more.   Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s: The Barretts of Wimpole Street (dir: Sidney Franklin) 0h 38m 00s:  The Merry Widow (dir: Ernst Lubitsch) +++ * Check out our Complete Upcoming Episode Schedule * Find Elise's latest film piece on Depression era film romance *And Read lots of Elise's Writing at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Cléo, and Bright Lights.* Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at [email protected] Theme Music: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" – Le Tigre