Pride Oscar Flashback: Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
A look back at the 1932 best picture nominee and what might be the definitive role for the gender-bending star. Plus, some final Cannes thoughts, some solutions for the Oscars' acting category problems, and why spring TV has felt so crowded.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner. |
| 0:11.0 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:13.0 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:15.0 | The winner, it's a tie! |
| 0:19.0 | And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the telly, you never know! |
| 0:25.0 | Mom, I hit this one and Oscar! |
| 0:36.0 | I am Katie Rich. I'm here with Richard Lawson. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello. |
| 0:39.0 | With David Canfield. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi. |
| 0:41.0 | And Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:42.0 | Hi. |
| 0:43.0 | We have resumed all on the same content. |
| 0:45.0 | Again, Can is over. |
| 0:46.0 | We will have lots to talk about. |
| 0:48.0 | Richard and Rebecca have done excellent writing about all of it. |
| 0:51.0 | Later in this episode, we're going to kick off our month of pride flashbacks with 1932's Shanghai Express, |
| 0:57.0 | starring Mernlena Dietrich. |
| 0:59.0 | But before we get to any of that, we kind of wanted to double back to last week's episode, |
| 1:03.0 | because we got so much great listener feedback about de-gendering acting awards. |
| 1:09.0 | We kind of talked about some ideas last week and more just about the urgency of the push to make room for non-binary performers in these awards. |
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