{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Acteurist Spotlight \u2013 Deborah Kerr \u2013 Part 2: PLEASE BELIEVE ME (1950) and DREAM WIFE (1953)","description":"  For the 2nd part of our Deborah Kerr Acteurist Spotlight we check in on Kerr's "lost years" 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 Please Believe Me (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 Dream Wife (1953) she helps the future I Dream of Jeannie creator and bestselling trashy novelist work out some interesting 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).  Time Codes: 0h 00m 25s:       PLEASE BELIEVE ME (1950) [dir. Norman Taurog] 0h 24m 18s:       DREAM WIFE (1953) [dir. Sidney Sheldon] +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project \u2013 a discussion of Late Spring * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: \u201cSunday\u201d by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise\u2019s piece on Gangs of New York \u2013 \u201cMaking America Strange Again\u201d * Check out Dave\u2019s Robert Benchley blog \u2013 an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist\u2019s 2000+ pieces as he can locate \u2013 Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!  Follow us on Twitter at @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!  ","author_name":"There's Sometimes a Buggy: Irresponsible Opinions About Classic Film","author_url":"http:\/\/timetravel.libsyn.com\/webpage","html":"