Disaster to the Wench with Nina Berry & Brenda Pontiff

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If you love the Golden Age of cinema, this one’s for you! Two of the hosts from the fun new YouTube show Disaster to the Wench join us for this week’s mini episode. A mashup of TV’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 and TCM (Turner Classic Movies), with a twist of Ms. magazine, Disaster to the Wench is a sassy and feminist real-time commentary of classic Hollywood films like Rain starring Joan Crawford and The Strange Love of Martha Ivers starring Barbara Stanwyck. 


Discussed in this episode: 

Madonna, “Vogue”

Disaster to the Wench 

Nina Berry

Brenda Pontiff

Cynthia Levin

Beth Szymkowski

Gilda with Rita Hayworth

Rain with Joan Crawford

Pygmalion, starring Wendy Hiller

Dr. Caroline Frick

So Big by Edna Ferber

So Big (1932 film)

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