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Apologies to the youngsters who won't get that '80s SNL reference. Anyway, it's not clear to me what happened in the final few hours of this week's request poll—judging from various comments, it was at one point an exact tie between Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Merrily We Go to Hell, then a late voter broke the tie in Hawks' favor (prompting pleas from Hell hounds for him to switch his vote), and then somehow Arzner's film wound up winning with a decent margin, 54% to 46%. Did we get a bunch of last-minute votes, or were there defectors? Makes no difference to me, as I'm just happy for an excuse to investigate an early female filmmaker whose work I've neither seen nor read much of anything about. The film doesn't appear to be digitally available at the moment, but there are black-market options.
Fair warning: If you loved The Fabelmans and would be rankled by a violently negative review of same, don't read the one I'm gonna post here later today.