The Particulars of the Picture Anna Christie … Greta Garbo Marthy … Marie Dressler Matt … Charles Bickford Chris … George F. Marion Anna Christie: The Circle of Despair Goes Round Life is all about illusions. The ones we have about other people, the ones we keep about ourselves, and Read more…
The Particulars of the Picture Jimmie … Tommy Conlon Walt … Conrad Nagel Lou … Leila Hyams The Constant Woman: Hard to Peg Constantly lying is a bad idea. I know, controversial opinion, but the way The Constant Woman sees it, those lies always end in a fiery cavalcade of pain and Read more…
Kurt Anderson … Warren William Madeline … Loretta Young Martin West … Wallace Ford Polly … Alice White Miss Hall … Ruth Donnelly Sweeney … Allen Jenkins Employee’s Entrance: Sorting the Successful From the Failures I think our antiheroes nowadays have gotten a little too clean under their collars. When Read more…
David Dwight … Warren William Lynn … Maureen O’Sullivan Sarah… Verree Teasdale Tom … Norman Foster Jenny … Anita Page Ella Dwight … Hedda Hopper Skyscraper Souls: A Monument to Mankind’s Hubris They laughed at me when I said I wanted a hundred-story building. They said it wouldn’t hold together. Read more…
Alexander Stream … Warren William Hettie Stream … Mary Astor Lilly Linda … Ginger Rogers Oscar … Andy Devine Lou … J. Carrol Naish Moran … Sidney Toler Upperworld: Taking It From the Top I’ve watched a number of movies from 1934 now, but it still surprises me how completely Read more…
The Particulars of the Picture Kent … Robert Montgomery Morgan … Chester Morris Butch … Wallace Beery The Big House: Breaking Out Human cruelty, as deep a field as it is, has almost never been better exemplified than in America’s prison system. Barbaric conditions are the norm, as men are Read more…
The Particulars of the Picture Jimmy … Frankie Darro Patsy … James Cagney Thompson … Dudley Digges Dorothy … Madge Evans Judge Gilbert … Arthur Byron Directed by Archie Mayo The Mayor of Hell: Reforming the Reformers Reeducation or punishment? As I’ll go into moreso next week with The Big Read more…
Ann Vincent Barbara Stanwyck Dick Ives James Rennie Price Baines Ricardo Cortez Georgie Evans Clive Butterworth Ives, Sr Claude Gillingwater Margie True Natalie Moorhead Illicit: Can Sex Survive Marriage? “We’re both a riot in our underwear!” There are probably few movies that can serve as such definitive proof in how Read more…
The Particulars of the Picture Cynthia Darrington … Katharine Hepburn Christopher Strong … Colin Clive Elaine Strong … Billie Burke Monica Strong … Helen Chandler Henry Rawlinson … Ralph Forbes Directed by Dorothy Arzner Christopher Strong: Making You Weak in the Knees The very first time the viewer sees the Read more…
Ruth Nancy Carroll Bill Randolph Scott Romer Sheffield Cary Grant Hot Saturday: Getting Out Alive I’ve wanted to say this for a while, because I think it needs to be said: thank god Cary Grant is dead. Look, I’m not glad he died, nor would I trade anything in the Read more…