Another Kind Of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol And Nostalgia Podcast

In this Dorothy McGuire Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, a couple of disparate films: Elia Kazan's anti-semitism exposé drama, Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and a marital comedy about the hardships of being a doctor's wife, Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950). We discuss the qualities that McGuire brings to her most problematic character yet and that help make the character a possible audience identification figure for the audience. And then we discuss the "secret feminism" of Mother Didn't Tell Me's portrayal of the life of a middle-class housewife who finds herself "abandoned" by her husband and unable to share his professional life. Elise expresses admiration of McGuire's ability to whisper her way through a fight scene. From open didacticism to secret feminism: this episode has it all!    Time Codes: 0h 0m 45s:        GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT (1947 [dir. Elia Kazan] 0h 31m 42s:      MOTHER DIDN’T TELL ME (1950) [dir. Claude Binyon]   +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of L