Mary Ginger Rogers Jack Norman Foster Eckbaum George Sidney Released by RKO | Directed by William Seiter Run time: 73 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film We’re introduced to Ginger Rogers via her slowly putting on a pair of stockings. Foster gets in on the act as he’s forced Read more
Bonnie Jordan Joan Crawford Rodney Jordan William Bakewell Jake Luva Clark Gable Released by MGM | Directed by Harry Beaumont Run time: 80 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film How to tell this one comes from the flapper era– a dull party is made lively again by someone suggesting: Read more
Angela Chiaromonte Helen Hayes Giovanni Severi Clark Gable Mina Louise Closser Hale Released by MGM | Directed by Victor Fleming Run time: 104 minutes White Sister: New Habits Die Hard “A broken officer and a renegade nun– is that your love?!” I spent some time tonight talking to my mom Read more
Captain McVey Louis Wolheim Charlie Hugh Herbert Frisco Kitty Mary Astor Released by RKO | Directed by Louis Wolheim Run time: 65 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Hugh Herbert’s goofy sidekick character goes through wives with regularity. “I’d like to wrap that up and take it home myself.” Read more
Polly Marion Davies Rev. John Harley Clark Gable Rev. James Northcott C. Aubrey Smith Released by MGM | Directed by Alfred Santell Run time: 69 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Say Polly– did you know they recognized you when they saw the elephant’s south end?!” “Your hips is Read more
Spike Warren Hymer Bill Spencer Tracy Goldie Jean Harlow Released by Fox Films | Directed by Benjamin Stoloff Run time: 68 minutes (Viewed print: 60) Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Two sailors go to a fashion show where Tracy insists, “The more you clap, the more they take off!” Read more
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 Read more
Wallace Porter Ernest Truex Toby Van Buren Una Merkel Dillon Edward Arnold Released by MGM | Directed by Elliot Nugent Run time: 79 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film One gangster named Slim (Johnny Hines) enters to find Lombardo (C. Henry Gordon) with his leg propped up, tying his Read more
Rose Maurrant Sylvia Sidney Sam Kaplan William Collier, Jr. Frank Maurrant David Landau Released by Samuel Goldwyn | Directed by King Vidor Run time: 80 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film A four letter word for a Jewish person is used multiple times. One that I wouldn’t use in Read more
The annual Turner Classic Movies Film Festival (TCMFF) is a blur, there’s no doubt about it. This year was my third festival, and the first time I got to experience it without jet lag. We lucked out– great weather abounded, and the festival itself was excellent– lines were shorter, the Read more