1940 - Gone With the Oscars!

Hey Oscars WWTT? fans -- we're going way, way back to perhaps the first truly epic year of movies! And while it all took place over 80 years ago -- when you have this many timeless classics that are still relevant, watched & enjoyed today -- it may as well be 8 years ago. Between Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach, Of Mice and Men, and Ninotchka we're talking about some of the biggest and best movies, directed by luminaries and starring some of the all-time greats. So join us for a year like few others; add some films to your watch list; and enjoy some behind the scenes trivia & stories you won't hear anywhere else!

FILMS DISCUSSED

(*) Recommended

*Gone With the Wind

*Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

*Wuthering Heights

Goodbye Mr. Chips

*Stagecoach

Love Affair

*The Wizard of Oz

*Ninotchka

*Of Mice and Men

*Dark Victory

*Babes in Arms

*Beau Geste

*The Hunchback of Notre Dame

An Affair to Remember

Sleepless in Seattle

*A Stolen Life

*Now Voyager

*Jezebel

*The Letter

*Only Angels Have Wings

Dodsworth

*Mrs. Miniver

*Best Years of Our lives

*The Women

*It Happened One Night

*Mutiny on the Bounty

*The Roaring Twenties

*Juarez

*(The Scarlett O’Hara Wars - Mini-series)

*A Streetcar Named Desire

*Notorious

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

Drums Along the Mohawk

*Young Mr. Lincoln

Bachelor Mother

*The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

*The Rains Came

*The Hurricane

Union Station

Topper Takes a Trip

*Hattie McDaniel Acceptance Speech:  https://youtu.be/gPJVFLv3_v8?t=852

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