OSCARS '62: Sweet Bird of Youth
“I like you. You are a nice monster.”
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of castration, sterilization, sex work, abuse, parental abuse and neglect, menace.
Did you miss us? We missed you! That’s right, it’s been far too long, and we’re back with a patented Oscars(TM) series, this time focusing on the year 1962. We kick things off this week with mid-century Hollywood stalwart Tennessee Williams. Boy do we wish we hadn’t. There are some legitimately good and enjoyable performances, but they’re wasted on a movie that said “you know what this play adaptation needs - more set pieces!” This movie is a hot mess, and not in the way Tennessee Williams would want us to see it. Oscars ‘62 kicks off this week with our review of Sweet Bird of Youth on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “Ebb Tide,” written and composed by Robert Maxwell. Copyright 1953 Mercury Record Corporation.
Excerpt taken from “Main Title” from the original soundtrack to the film The Music Man, written and composed by Meredith Willson. Copyright 1962 Warner Bros Records Inc; Warner Bros Pictures Inc.
