And it’s July! Wow, 2018 sometimes goes fast, sometimes it goes slow, and sometimes I often wish I were dead. But I have movies in the meantime, and that’s good enough for me. The most important, special news is that it’s Barnes & Noble sale time for all your Criterion […]
Site News for April 2018 Ah, April. It has finally stopped raining here in California (not that I’m complaining), and the birds are chirping eagerly that the annual Turner Classic Movies Film Festival (TCMFF) will soon be knocking at our door once more. The good news? I got media credentials […]
Pre-Code.Com Site News for May 2017 Things are going alright here. I managed, within a very short amount of time, to pick up not one but two part time librarian jobs. Yay! Money! Sweet money I can send straight to Warner Archive! Since I’m still trying to find childcare, things […]
The third issue of The Pre-Code Companion is now available at Amazon. It runs 70 pages and costs $2.99, with all profits being donated to the ASPCA. This issue’s contributors are: The Divorcee – Karen Burroughs Hannsberry Norma Shearer – Jake Woehlke Chester Morris – Cliff Aliperti A Free Soul […]
Coach Gore Pat O’Brien Claire Ann Dvorak Buck Weaver Lyle Talbot Phil Sargeant Dick Powell Barnett Hugh Herbert Dr. Sargeant Arthur Byron Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By William A. Wellman Proof That It’s Pre-Code Buck Weaver keeps a picture of a scantily clad woman in his dorm room. […]
Pre-Code.Com Site News for July 2015 Happy July! I hope you’re as excited about the summer as I am. I, for one, will get to the beach at some point. … and I’ll be reading. Okay, my summer plans aren’t that exciting. What is exciting is that I’m finally able […]
Molly Louvain Ann Dvorak Scotty Cornell Lee Tracy Nicky Grant Leslie Fenton Jimmy Hook Richard Cromwell Captain Slade Charles Middleton Pops Guy Kibbee Released by Warner Brothers/First National | Directed By Michael Curtiz Proof That It’s Pre-Code Molly Louvain gets pregnant out of wedlock and has a child. Molly Louvain […]
The Pre-Code Companion is a bi-monthly journal that takes both detailed and personal looks at some of the most important Hollywood films of the early 1930s. Each issue will look at three films and key personnel from some of the best bloggers writing today. It will published for the Amazon […]
Nina Norma Shearer Ned Clark Gable Sam Alexander Kirkland Charlie Ralph Morgan Gordon Robert Young Madeline Maureen O’Sullivan Released by MGM | Directed by Robert Z. Leonard Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Self important ass!” “I’ve been bad, Charlie. Wicked. I need to be punished. And you’re the only one who […]
Pre-Code.Com Site News for April 2015 Are you excited? I’m excited. Later this week I’ll make my way to the TCM Film Festival, as outlined here and here, where I will be posting daily updates. (Or I plan to, at least.) We’ll see how things go between sleeping on the […]