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This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Delia Ephron has worked on some of the most famous romantic comedies of all time – like Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail – alongside her sister, Nora Ephron. In You’ve Got Mail, two people fall in love over email. Decades after writing that screenplay, Delia Ephron found herself in the middle of a very similar story. “I really did think I’d fallen into my own romantic comedy.” This episode was originally released in 2022. Say hello on Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get to listen to This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery without any ads. Plus, you’ll get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.3

I went to see this movie when I was 11 called Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Did you ever seen it?

0:40.2

No. You haven't? Okay. Well, it's a musical, a singing and dancing musical about Jane Powell,

0:46.5

who is sort of a blonde, cute thing about in her 20s, and she's working as a cook and this this backwoodsman comes in to get a wife

0:59.4

and he spots her and he asked her to marry him and she she's struck by love actually and she

1:09.5

says yes even though let me tell you he hasn't done a thing really to charm her, except they do some singing.

1:17.2

Anyway, she marries him, and she goes to the backwoods, and when she gets there, it turns out he has six brothers, who are the biggest slabs in the world. And she gets to wake up at

1:30.2

six in the morning and make flapjacks and biscuits and whatever for these seven perfectly horrible

1:36.6

brothers. And she turns them into princes. She teaches them to sing. She teaches them to dance. She teaches them

1:44.1

manners. She says it is,. She teaches them to dance. She teaches them manners. She says,

1:45.7

it is, it's a real messed up story if you're a woman, but it absolutely captured me. All I wanted

1:53.5

to do was be brought to the backwoods and make flapjacks for six messy guys, okay?

2:00.8

When seven brides for seven brothers came out in 1954,

2:05.3

it was nominated for several Oscars and won best scoring of a musical picture.

2:11.9

11-year-old Delia Efron absolutely loved it.

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