The Hollywood Studios, Year-By-Year – Warner Brothers, 1934 – Side Streets & Heat Lightning

For our Warner Bros. 1934 episode, two tragicomic movies in which Aline MacMahon plays a lovable small business owner with man problems: Side Streets, directed by Alfred E. Green, and Heat Lightning, directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The latter in particular, we conclude, could only have been made by Warner Bros., and gives us the best and the worst of that studio on gender.  Bonus: it's also an Ann Dvorak double-feature. Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s: Side Streets (dir: Alfred E. Green) 0h 41m 06s: Heat Lightning (dir: Mervyn Leroy) 1h 11m 10s: Letter from Adam        +++ * Check out our Complete Upcoming Episode Schedule * Find Elise's latest film piece on Billy Wilder and 1930s Romantic Comedy *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