Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Lilli Palmer – Part 9: MAIN STREET TO BROADWAY (1953) and FEUERWERK (1954)

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In this Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we discuss Tay Garnett's Main Street to Broadway (1953), a pleasant curiosity with an all-star New York theatre cast, including Palmer and Rex Harrison in a brief sandwich-themed couple cameo, but nearly stolen by Lynchian radio humourist Herb Shriner; and Fireworks (1954), Palmer's first German film, in which she plays a circus performer possessed by the guiding spirit of her clown father, as she expresses in the well-known song "O mein Papa." And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we discuss Douglas Sirk's outlandish yet subdued mystical melodrama Magnificent Obsession and the depressive side of soap opera.

Time Codes:

0h 00m 35s: MAIN STREET TO BROADWAY (1953) [dir. Tay Garnett]

0h 24m 49s: FEUERWERK (1954) [dir. Kurt Hoffman]

0h 43m 57s: Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto – TIFF Cinémathèque – Magnificent Obsession (1954) by Douglas Sirk

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