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  <title>Acteurist Spotlight – Deborah Kerr – Part 2: PLEASE BELIEVE ME (1950) and DREAM WIFE (1953)</title>
  <description> &amp;amp;nbsp;For the 2nd part of our Deborah Kerr Acteurist Spotlight we check in on Kerr's &amp;quot;lost years&amp;quot; at MGM to see what Hollywood was finding for her to do before her breakthrough performance in From Here to Eternity. In Norman Taurog's&amp;amp;nbsp;Please&amp;amp;nbsp;Believe Me&amp;amp;nbsp;(1950) she leads a cast of oddballs, including Robert Walker and Peter Lawford, as a respectable British girl who learns how to be American by first being mistaken for, and then deciding to become, a Stanwyck-type comedy heroine; and in Sidney Sheldon's satirical&amp;amp;nbsp;Dream Wife&amp;amp;nbsp;(1953) she helps the future&amp;amp;nbsp;I Dream of Jeannie&amp;amp;nbsp;creator and bestselling trashy novelist work out some interesting&amp;amp;nbsp;ideas about gender via miserable Orientalist stereotypes and an oil crisis backdrop of unfortunate contemporary relevance. If these aren't masterpieces, it can't be said, anyway, that these are run-of-the-mill Hollywood comedies (if there is such a thing).&amp;amp;nbsp; Time Codes:  0h 00m 25s: &amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp; PLEASE BELIEVE ME (1950) [dir. Norman Taurog]  0h 24m 18s:&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp; DREAM WIFE (1953) [dir. Sidney Sheldon] +++ * Listen to our guest episode on  The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous  Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of&amp;amp;nbsp;The Internet Archive) * Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York –  “Making America Strange Again” * Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!&amp;amp;nbsp; Follow us on Twitter at&amp;amp;nbsp;@therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com  We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!&amp;amp;nbsp; </description>
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