This Paramount 1936 Studios Year by Year episode is a Joan Bennett and Cary Grant screwball double feature, Big Brown Eyes (directed by Raoul Walsh) and Wedding Present (directed by Richard Wallace). If the cool people used to say that Hepburn and Grant were a better pairing than Hepburn and Tracy, now they're saying that Grant and Bennett are an even better pairing than Grant and Hepburn. Or they should be, so let them know. Plus the Grant/William Demarest drunk scene in Wedding Present gives Grant and Jimmy Stewart's duet in The Philadelphia Story a run for its money.

Time Codes:

0h 00m 20s: 1936 & Paramount

0h 08m 38s: BIG BROWN EYES [dir. Raoul Walsh]

0h 29m 10s: WEDDING PRESENT [dir. Richard Wallace]

0h 53m 25s: So This is Sarris – From The American Cinema – Frank Tashlin

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Studio Film Capsules provided by The Paramount Story by John Douglas Eames

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

1936 Information from Forgotten Films to Remember by John Springer

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