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Return to Reno
with Charlie Chan, Lupe Vélez, and the Man Who Invented the Reno Divorce.
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Michael Weingrad
March 2023
The Poem that Inspired The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
MacKinlay Cantor's Glory For Me
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Michael Weingrad
Three Gifted Misfires
In Name Only (1939), Susan and God (1940), That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
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Michael Weingrad
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
A surreal meditation on marriage and beauty--and a midrash on Genesis.
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Michael Weingrad
February 2023
Divorce American Style (1967)
How unpleasant to know Mr. Lear.
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Michael Weingrad
I Want a Divorce (1940)
Joan Blondell goes trad.
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Michael Weingrad
Paul Mazursky's Tempest (1982)
Getting her goat
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Michael Weingrad
January 2023
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
And three other films from the 1930s
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Michael Weingrad
December 2022
Thanks for the Memory
The Big Broadcast of 1938 and one of the great divorce songs.
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Michael Weingrad
Four from the mid-1930s
Three B movies and an A.
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Three Smart Girls (1936)
The un-Parent Trap.
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Michael Weingrad
November 2022
Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)
Ex-spouses as dueling divorce attorneys
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Michael Weingrad
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