1940: Gloom and Boom
Academy Vs Audience enters a new decade, and celebrates with improved audio quality over last episode (albeit some internet issues from a host). It's Alfred Hitchcock's only Best Picture winner with the gloomy, creeping dread of Rebecca, giving us our first appearance of Sir Laurence MF'n Olivier; meanwhile the audience embraces old familiar friends doing old familiar things. Our Clark Gable Renaissance ends as it began; alongside Claudette Colbert, as Gable, Colbert, Spencer Tracey, and Frank Morgan play the distilled version of their archetypes in the oil-soaked bromance Boomtown. Olivier…
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