Doris Blake Carole Lombard Jimmie Martin Chester Morris Ridgeway Cary Grant Released by Paramount Directed by Alexander Hall Run time: 69 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Lombard plays a clothing model who frequently strips down and hangs out in the dressing room. Doris Blake (Lombard) becomes a kept Read more…
Gerald Roland Young Germaine/”Chou Chou” Lily Damita Claire Thelma Todd Bunny Charles Ruggles Stephen Cary Grant Sparks Irving Bacon Released by Paramount Directed by Frank Tuttle Run time: 78 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Most of the film centers on two couples where everyone is chasing one or Read more…
Calvin Joe E. Brown Ruth Ginger Rogers Oscar Spencer Charters Released by Warner Bros. Directed by Ray Enright Run time: 70 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Joe E. Brown ends up in a Jewish deli and gets yelled at in Yiddish. In one interesting (read: odd) moment, Brown’s Read more…
Ace Corbin Cary Grant Eleanor Benita Hume Manning Jack La Rue Released by Paramount Directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Max Marcin Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Benita Hume pops out of the shower at one point and (it’s difficult to capture in a screenshot) Read more…
Ann Darrow Fay Wray Carl Denham Robert Armstrong John Driscoll Bruce Cabot Released by RKO Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack Run time: 104 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film This film touches lightly on a ton of material from white slavery to bestiality, that would be Read more…
Millie Helen Twelvetrees Helen Lilyan Tashman Angie Joan Blondell Released by RKO Directed by John Francis Dillon Run time: 85 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film We’re introduced to Blondell and Tashman’s characters shacked up in bed together. Frank McHugh has a musical number (yes) about being a beautiful Read more…
Letty Madge Evans Mrs. Sherwood Alice Brady Sherwood Otto Kruger Carol Una Merkel Mrs. Merrick May Robson Burt Barton Phillips Holmes Released by MGM Directed by Richard Boleslavsky Run time: 86 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “You know how divorces are.” “I’ve never been married.” “Not even once?!” Read more…
Mary Richards Sylvia Sidney Harry Glynn George Raft Muriel Stevens Lilian Bond Released by MGM Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Run time: 92 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film All about the kind of woman who survived the Depression any way possible, and the men who picked them up. Read more…
Mike Thomas Phillips Holmes Judge Moffett Walter Huston Mary Thomas Anita Page Released by MGM Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Run time: 92 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Based on a true story, this is a film about a corrupt judge who forces women into prostitution, frames and Read more…
Doris Evans Anita Page Gordon Wayne Charles Starrett John Franklin Kenneth Thomspon Released by Monogram Studios Directed by Harry O. Hoyt and Albert H. Kelley Run time: 62 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Anita Page undresses with her back to the camera and you do manage to see Read more…