Jeff Keane Lionel Barrymore Consuela Fairbanks Karen Morley Brenner Nils Asther Released by MGM | Directed By Charles Brabin Proof That It’s Pre-Code A man’s marriage? A SHAM. The government? A SHAM. Eh, there are probably more shammy things here too. Oh, and the Senator tells his daughter playfully, “You’re Read more
Nick Charles William Powell Nora Charles Myrna Loy Asta Skippy Released by MGM | Directed By W.S. Van Dyke Proof That It’s Pre-Code Well, Nick Charles punches Nora Charles in the face. There are a large number of jokes about dogs peeing. The police just punch a dude in the Read more
Agnes ‘Aggie’ Appleby Wynne Gibson Adonriam Schlump Charles Farrell Red Branahan William Gargan Evangeline Betty Furness Sybby Zasu Pitts Aunt Katherine Blanche Friderici Released by RKO | Directed By Mark Sandrich Proof That It’s Pre-Code Sybby (Zasu Pitts) is getting blotto in a speakeasy and exclaims, “At this rate, Mae Read more
Sherwood Nash William Powell Lynn Bette Davis Snap Frank McHugh The Duchess Verree Teasdale Joe Hugh Herbert Baroque Reginald Owen Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By William Dieterle Proof That It’s Pre-Code Walking down the Seine, Snap is offered some dirty pictures, which he looks at with much relish. Read more
Aigo Francis Lederer Basil Pemberton Henri Stephenson Joan Pemberton Elissa Landi Released by RKO | Directed By J. Walter Ruben Proof That It’s Pre-Code Our lead ditches his Eskimo wife to go to Europe and chase a white woman. But don’t worry, kids, the white woman preserves her virtue! Man Read more
J. Pinkham Whinney Charles Ruggles Flora Whinney Mary Boland Sheriff Hoxley W.C. Fields George Edward George Burns Gracie Devore Gracie Allen Mrs. K. Rumford Alison Skipworth Released by Paramount | Directed By Leo McCarey Proof That It’s Pre-Code Not a whole lot, except that one of the subplots is about Read more
Pre-Code.Com Site News for February 2014 I’m alive! I have made it to Japan with my wife and two dogs, and everything is going okay, Well, I mean, Classicflix refuses to send me discs any more and both Warner Archive Instant and TCM Watch don’t work in this country, but Read more
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 Read more
The Duchess Constance Bennett Benvenuto Cellini Frederic March Duke of Florence Frank Morgan Angela Fay Wray Ottaviano Louis Calhern Beatrice Jessie Ralph Released by 20th Century Pictures | Directed By Gregory La Cava Proof That It’s Pre-Code-ish It’s a tale of adultery in the old world. The Duke of Florence’s Read more
Virginia Frances Dee Pony Ginger Rogers Mac Bruce Cabot Helen Billie Burke Ms. Van Alstyne Beulah Bondi Frank John Halliday Released by RKO | Directed By Wanda Tuchock and George Nichols Jr. Proof That It’s Pre-Code Schoolgirls in trouble! Drinking! Partying! Staying up late with boys in hotel rooms and Read more