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

Acteurist oeuvre-view – Jean Arthur – Part 4: THE DEFENSE RESTS (1934), THE PUBLIC MENACE (1935) & IF YOU COULD ONLY COOK (1935) In this week's Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we look at 3 Jean Arthur movies: The Defense Rests (1934), an excellent corrupt lawyer drama that we were previously unable to find; and from 1935, two very different romantic comedies featuring real or pretend marriages of convenience, The Public Menace and If You Could Only Cook. The simultaneously idealistic and pragmatic young lawyer, screwball liar, and Depression comedy heroine she plays in each of these films respectively give us several aspects of Arthur's emerging screen persona to discuss in this last moment before she finds true fame.    Time Codes: 0h 1m 00s:      THE DEFENSE RESTS (1934) [dir. Lambert Hillyer] 0h 35m 56s:    THE PUBLIC MENACE (1935) [dir. Erle C. Kenton] 0h 46m 09s:    IF YOU COULD ONLT COOK (1935) [dir. William A. Seiter] +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late