Paul Frank Morgan Maria Nancy Carroll Walter Paul Lukas Hilda Jean Dixon Schultz Charlie Grapewin Lucy Gloria Stuart Released by Paramount | Directed By James Whale Proof That It’s Pre-Code A premeditated murder is committed, and surely it’s okay to do that sometimes, right? One of the reporters seems a Read more
Eddie / Oedipus Eddie Cantor Josephus David Manners Princess Sylvia Gloria Stewart Emperor Valerius Edward Arnold Olga Ruth Etting Empress Agrippa Verree Teasdale Released by United Artists | Directed By Frank Tuttle Proof That It’s Pre-Code “The empress Agrippa, the one I was sleeping with, was his wife.” The chief Read more
Carol Joan Blondell Lawrence Warren William Trixie Aline MacMahon Polly Ruby Keeler Brad Dick Powell Peabody Guy Kibbee Barney Ned Sparks Fay Ginger Rogers Singer Etta Moten Released by Warner Brothers | Directed by Mervyn LeRoy Proof That It’s Pre-Code One of the musical numbers is called “Pettin’ in the Read more
Irene Gloria Stuart Robert Lionel Atwill Walter Paul Lukas Released by Universal | Directed By Kurt Neumann The Secret of the Blue Room: Am I Blue “I warned them. But they laughed at me. But I tell you that anybody who sleeps in the blue room is never heard of Read more
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. Read more
Elizabeth Rimplegar Claudette Colbert Dr. Alan Stevens Richard Arlen Mrs. Nellie Rimplegar Mary Boland Kenneth Rimplegar Wallace Ford Eddie Rimplegar Tom Brown Douglas Rimplegar William Bakewell Jenny Lyda Roberti Kitty Joan Marsh Ronald Hardie Albright Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Elliot Nugent Proof That It’s Pre-Code The rise Read more
Nora Moran Zita Johann Dick Crawford Paul Cavanagh John Grant Alan Dinehart Edith Crawford Claire Du Brey Father Ryan Henry B. Walthall Paulino John Miljan Released by Majestic Pictures | Directed By Phil Goldstone Proof That It’s Pre-Code Nora is called, “a common cheap hooker,” which is surprisingly blunt for Read more
The first issue of The Pre-Code Companion is now available at Amazon. It runs 89 pages and costs $2.99, with all profits being donated to the ASPCA. This issue’s contributors are: Baby Face – Kim Luperi Barbara Stanwyck – Clint Worthington Red Headed Woman – Cliff Aliperti Jean Harlow – Read more
Biff Gary Cooper Virginia Fay Wray Amy Frances Fuller Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed by Stephen Roberts One Sunday Afternoon: Regrets, I Have a Few “Ain’t no crime in this world like stealing another man’s woman.” One Sunday Afternoon is about two things that constantly interest me: class conflict Read more
Pre-Code.Com Site News for September 2015 I hope you all enjoyed Mae Clarke August– I definitely did, even if there were just as many hits as misses. September is a little different speed. No star of the month, but if you listened to the podcast I did with Smug Film Read more