Kay Keyser Kay Keyser John Barrymore John Barrymore Carmen Del Toro Lupe Velez Released by RKO | Directed By David Butler Playmates: The Undiscovered Country “Have you ever tried rubbing alcohol?” “Not since prohibition.” It wasn’t until about ten minutes into Playmates that I realized that I Read more…
Pre-Code.Com Site News for October 2014 Woooowee! Hope everyone had a fun September! Those 24-hour pre-Code marathons on TCM wore me out, and I don’t even get the channel! The network slows down a bit for October (obviously), but there’s still a couple of nice choices here and there. Those Read more…
Thou Shalt Not: The Scoop on Sin “Well, I think is that the denial of reality was what the Production Code was all about. When you establish these kinds of moral views, you’re not trying to describe the world as it really is. You’re trying to describe the world as Read more…
Johnny Dangerously Michael Keaton Lil Marilu Henner Danny Vermin Joe Piscopo Ma Kelly Maureen Stapleton Tommy Kelly Griffin Dunne Jock Dundee Peter Boyle Released by 20th Century Fox | Directed By Amy Heckerling Johnny Dangerously: Once. Once. “Dames are put on this earth to weaken us, drain our energy, and Read more…
Pre-Code.Com Site News for September 2014 Pre-Code fans, maniacs, and nerds, if you have Turner Classic Movies, this is your month. The channel is dedicating four full 24-hour days to showing nothing but pre-Code films. On top of that, there are still scattered showings throughout as well. They’ve got tons Read more…
Pre-Code.Com Site News for August 2014 By the time you read this I will be down to less than two weeks of grad school left. Get the cake ready. Participants in The Thin Man book project should take this as their one month warning siren. I’ll be sending out an Read more…
“Pre-Code Retro” is my semi-regular examination of post-1934 media that is heavily influenced by or is significantly related to pre-Code Hollywood cinema. Polly Browne Twiggy Tony Brockhurst Christopher Gable Percy Parkhill Byran Pringle De Thrill Vladek Sheybal Tommy Tommy Tune Maisie Anotonia Ellis Released by MGM | Directed By Ken Read more…
I have an Amazon author’s page. I’ve gone to it probably a dozen times in the last two days just to look. Mind you, I know nothing new is about to pop up on there– I certainly haven’t written any new books in the last two days– but the mere Read more…
Pre-Code.Com Site News for July 2014 Hey guys! Lots of news for this month. First, and the most obvious one you’ll notice today, is that I’m adding Get TV to the schedules I put up every month. Get TV is an ad-supported free television network that broadcasts across the U.S. Read more…
Dutch William Holden Antonia Fedora Marthe Keller Fedora The Countess Hildegard Knef Doctor Vando Jose Ferrer Miss Balfour Frances Sternhagen Himself Michael York Released by Allied Artists | Directed By Billy Wilder Fedora: The Times, They Are A-Changin’ “Monroe, Harlow… they were the lucky ones.” By 1978, Billy Wilder was Read more…