Rene Maurice Chevalier Victor Edward Everett Horton Sally Helen Twelvetrees Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed by Norman Taurog Proof That It’s Pre-Code Get this– a Maurice Chevalier character chases after multiple women, ignoring (or just ignorant of) their marital status. There is a very real worry at first that […]
Myron Brown, M.D. Lew Ayres Ruth Robbins Mae Clarke Betty Merrick Una Merkel Released by Universal | Directed By James Whale Proof That It’s Pre-Code “No man can be expected to live his entire life with one woman!” Both Clarke and Merkel get undressed at different points. Attempted suicide. A […]
Marcia Cameron Mae Clarke Bob Henderson James Hall Trixie Barnes Marie Prevost Released by Columbia | Directed By Roy William Neill Proof That It’s Pre-Code “You cheap, common…” Women living with criminals outside of wedlock. Rich people are assholes. The Good Bad Girl: And The Ugly “That’s what I was. […]
Classic comedy fans need no introduction to Thelma Todd. Comedy teams Laurel & Hardy, Wheeler & Woolsey, and the Marx Brothers fought over her, each eager to stick the voluptuous blonde in their pictures. That’s because behind the big smile and beauty mark, Todd had a comic timing that matched […]
Pre-Code.Com Site News for March 2015 Wow! That was a lot of reviews in February, right? I think everyone got burned out on those Pitts & Todd shorts (including me), but things could have been worse. Much worse. There are probably Durante shorts out there. (shudder) After accidentally updating three […]
Philo Vance Basil Rathbone Sigurd Arnesson Roland Young Belle Dillard Leila Hyams Released by MGM | Directed By David Burton and Nick Grime The Bishop Murder Case: Hickory Dickory DULL “And as for you… Fools! Idiots! Children! Baffled by Mother Goose!” In doing my research for The Bishop Murder Case, […]
Few actresses have the career of Loretta Young. Better remembered today for her lengthy and self titled television show and her devotion to Catholic charities, her early career in the pictures of the 1930’s were rife with wicked sensibilities. Young’s personal life is, to be charitable, quite insane, including adopting […]
Pre-Code.Com Site News for April 2014 I hope everyone’s March came out alright. I burned my foot fire walking and got through midterms for school, and that’s about as exciting as it gets around here while I’m in classes. I’m down to 16 weeks total of school left, and when […]
Stephen Lane Jack Holt Juanita Perez Lane Dorothy Burgess Gail Hamilton Fay Wray Nancy Lane Cora Sue Collins Dr. Raymond Perez Arnold Korff ‘Lunch’ McClaren Clarence Muse Released by Columbia | Directed By Roy William Neill Proof That It’s Pre-Code Terribly, horribly politically incorrect. “What’s wrong with all of the […]
Mary Archer Barbara Stanwyck Hugo Wilbrandt Otto Kruger Jeff Archer Ralph Bellamy Proof That It’s Pre-Code Get this– Americans can be huge douches. We get to hear gossip about what the Germans did to a pair of nurses, and what they do to all of their prisoners– or, as one […]