The Particulars of the Picture Jimmie … Tommy Conlon Walt … Conrad Nagel Lou … Leila Hyams The Constant Woman: Hard to Peg Constantly lying is a bad idea. I know, controversial opinion, but the way The Constant Woman sees it, those lies always end in a fiery cavalcade of pain and Read more
J-21 … John Garrick Single O … El Brendel LN-18 … Maureen O’Sullivan D-6 … Marjorie White Loko / Boko … Ivan Linow Loo Loo / Boo Boo … Joyzelle Joyner Just Imagine: Hard to Believe “Give me the good old days!” What will the world be like in the Read more
Africa Speaks: *Ahem*: Roar, Roar, Roar. There’s a bit in this one “Mystery Science Theater 3000” episode that works perfectly to describe the modern experience of watching Africa Speaks. As the film The Jungle Goddess unspools, it becomes painfully obvious how poorly the stock footage has been edited together with Read more
Kurt Anderson … Warren William Madeline … Loretta Young Martin West … Wallace Ford Polly … Alice White Miss Hall … Ruth Donnelly Sweeney … Allen Jenkins Employee’s Entrance: Sorting the Successful From the Failures I think our antiheroes nowadays have gotten a little too clean under their collars. When Read more
The Particulars of the Picture Simon Johanssen … Ole Olsen Peter Swanson … Chic Johnson Jack Forbes … William Gaxton Lulu Carroll … Claudia Dell Michael Cummins … John Halliday Violet … Helen Broderick 50 Million Frenchmen: Sometimes Quite Wrong Bad comedies. I hate bad comedies. 50 Million Frenchmen, unfortunately, Read more
David Dwight … Warren William Lynn … Maureen O’Sullivan Sarah… Verree Teasdale Tom … Norman Foster Jenny … Anita Page Ella Dwight … Hedda Hopper Skyscraper Souls: A Monument to Mankind’s Hubris They laughed at me when I said I wanted a hundred-story building. They said it wouldn’t hold together. Read more
The Particulars of the Picture George Lewis … Jack Oakie May Daniels … Aline MacMahon Jerry Hyland … Russell Hopton Lawrence Vail … Onslow Stevens Herman Glogauer … Gregory Ratoff Susan Walker … Sidney Fox Once in a Lifetime: Making It Big “You don’t know anything about anything, George, and Read more
The Particulars of the Picture Vicki … Joan Blondell Tony … Warren William Vernon … Edward Everett Horton Anita … Claire Dodd George … Frank McHugh Bonnie … Joan Wheeler Smarty: Slap Happy Spanking, slapping, screwing. If any of those intrigue you, you may be interested in Smarty, one of Read more
The Particulars of the Picture Pierre … Maurice Chevalier Barbara Billings … Claudette Colbert Directed by Hobart Henley The Big Pond: You’re Soaking In It “Me? I’m like a good French cheese. Every day I get stronger and stronger!” It took me a while to nail it down, but I Read more
Alexander Stream … Warren William Hettie Stream … Mary Astor Lilly Linda … Ginger Rogers Oscar … Andy Devine Lou … J. Carrol Naish Moran … Sidney Toler Upperworld: Taking It From the Top I’ve watched a number of movies from 1934 now, but it still surprises me how completely Read more