The sixth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features Josh’s personal pick, Ernst Lubitsch’s Cluny Brown. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker and Richard Haydn, Cluny Brown was the last film Lubitsch completed before his death.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from James Agee in The Nation, A.H. Weiler in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1946/06/03/archives/the-screen-clany-brown-new-picture-at-the-rivoli-a-whimsical-film.html), and Variety (https://variety.com/1945/film/reviews/cluny-brown-1117789980/).
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