Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM – 1934: A WICKED WOMAN & SEQUOIA

Our MGM 1934 episode this week is a Jean Parker (Beth in RKO's 1933 Little Women ) double feature. She plays the rebellious daughter in the family melodrama Wicked Woman , which features a fine central performance by noted theatre actress and blacklistee Mady Christians, and a conservationist's daughter who starts an "unlikely animal friends" experiment with a puma cub and a fawn in Sequoia . While the former treads relatively familiar territory with a mixture of pre-Code intensity and wacky domestic humour (supplied by Sterling Holloway and Betty Furness, an odder couple than the puma and fawn), the latter, we argue, is an animal protagonists movie with some genuinely original features. Time Codes: 0h 00m 25s: 1934 & MGM 0h 04m 39s: A WICKED WOMAN [dir. Charles Brabin] 0h 26m 28s: SEQUOIA [ dir. Chester M. Franklin ] Studio Film Capsules provided by The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler 1934 Information from Forgotten Films to Remember by John Springer +++ * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: "Sunday" by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive ) * Read Elise's latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours , and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating. * Check out Dave's new Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM – 1934: A WICKED WOMAN & SEQUOIA is an episode from Another Kind of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol and Nostalgia Podcast by Dave.

This episode is 42:43 long.

This episode was published on Apr 3, 2026.

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