This week, we're talking about Diahann Carroll's performance as the titular single mother of six children living on welfare who strikes up a romance with a charismatic garbage collector in John Berry's CLAUDINE!

This week, we have another guest reaching their 10th episode as we talk about Meryl Streep's performance as a lonely Italian-American housewife who's caught up in a whirlwind affair with a traveling photographer in Clint Eastwood's THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY!

This week, we're talking about Amy Madigan's performance as a woman struggling with her marriage when her parents split up after her father begins having an affair in Bud Yorkin's TWICE IN A LIFETIME!

This week, we're talking about Susan Sarandon's performance as a no-nonsense lawyer who's representing a boy who witnessed the suicide of a mob lawyer in Joel Schumacher's THE CLIENT!

This week, we're talking about a partially lost film that exists in reconstructions only, with Lawrence Tibbett's performance as a singing rogue bandit who kidnaps a princess after murdering her brother for revenge in Lionel Barrymore's (and Hal Roach's) THE ROGUE SONG!

This week, we talked about Keisha Castle-Hughes's performance as a young Māori girl who challenges the patriarchal traditions of her tribal community to vie for the chance to become its chief in Niki Caro's WHALE RIDER!

Two hundred episodes!! 🎉 To celebrate, this week the two guests from last year's episode on BLONDE returned to talk about another movie that mistreats Marilyn Monroe, mostly by way of the baffling nominated performance by Don Murray as a brash rancher who kidnaps her showgirl character with intentions of marrying her, in Joshua Logan's BUS STOP! Thank you so much to everyone who's supported this show over the last nearly four years, as a listener and/or as one of the seventy two different guests that I've had! I truly could not have made it this far without you all, and here's to the final stretch of episodes over the next year and a half!

This week, we talked about Jack Palance's career Oscar-winning performance as a gruff cowboy who leads a group of tourists on a cattle drive across the American Southwest in Ron Underwood's CITY SLICKERS!

This week, we're talking about Cary Grant's first of only two Oscar nominations, for his performance as one half of a married couple whose relationship faces many struggles over the years, including a miscarriage and the death of an adopted child, in George Stevens's PENNY SERENADE!

This week, we're talking about Jane Alexander's performance as a mother of three whose life is gradually torn apart when her small California town is hit by the aftermath of a nearby nuclear blast in Lynne Littman's TESTAMENT!

This week we're tackling the monumental film year of 1939, with one of the less-remembered titles from that year, with Edna May Oliver's performance as a widowed farm owner who takes in a newlywed couple after their house is burned down in a raid in John Ford's DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK!

This week we talked about Anne Bancroft's nomination that came between her Oscar win and her most iconic role, as a mother of many children whose third husband's infidelities lead her to reflect back on their time together in Jack Clayton's THE PUMPKIN EATER!

This week, we talked about Richard Todd's performance as a misanthropic Scottish soldier in WWII who is kept in the dark about his impending death while the other men in his hospital unit are told to make his last days pleasant in Vincent Sherman's THE HASTY HEART!

This week, I was joined by not one but two guests to talk about a perplexing Oscar win in Goldie Hawn's performance as a 20something whose unmarried older boyfriend has been lying to her about having a wife in Gene Saks's CACTUS FLOWER!

This week, we talked about Ethel Barrymore's performance as a bedridden elderly matriarch whose mute nurse is being stalked by a psychopathic serial killer of disabled women in Robert Siodmak's THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE

This week, we're talking about another winning performance - Mary Astor's, as a concert pianist who agrees to give up her child to the widow of the child's father, but changes her mind when the man turns up still alive after all, in Edmund Goulding's THE GREAT LIE!

This week, we talked about Marjorie Rambeau (giving much more than she has in her other Oscar nomination, previously covered here) as a middle aged sex worker whose daughter runs away to marry a man she's only just met in Gregory La Cava's PRIMROSE PATH!

This week, we talked about an early starmaking role for Julia Roberts, as a diabetic young woman who has a baby against her doctor's suggestions and who is one of a group of interconnected women within her community in Herbert Ross's STEEL MAGNOLIAS!

In the shortest episode to date, this week we talked about Robert Duvall's performance as an impassioned but imperfect preacher who flees his life after assaulting his soon-to-be-ex-wife's lover and starts up a new church in Louisiana in THE APOSTLE, which Duvall wrote and directed!

This week, we're talking about Denzel Washington's performance as an antisocial but ambitious defense lawyer who gets brought on by a large firm after his longtime business partner has a heart attack in Dan Gilroy's ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ.!