Joe Grant Joe E. Brown Sally Evelyn Knapp June Lillian Bond Released by Warner Brothers/First National | Directed By Lloyd Bacon Fireman, Save My Child: Take My Base, Please Growing up in the Midwest meant one thing: summertime is baseball time. My parents grew up in Maryland, and both were Read more
Sadie McKee Joan Crawford Michael Alderson Franchot Tone Tommy Wallace Gene Raymond Jack Brennan Edward Arnold Opal Jean Dixon Dolly Merrick Esther Ralston Released by MGM | Directed By Clarence Brown Proof That It’s Pre-Code Sadie and Tommy move into a one room apartment where it’s noted that the landlord 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
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
Cassie … Jean Harlow Gladys … Mae Clarke Dot … Marie Prevost Proof That It’s Pre-Code Drinking by the ill-mannered, with one upper crust youth noting, “Most of the girls around here like to compete to see who can get blotto first!” Several colorful euphemisms for the rear end, including Read more
Anne Schuyler … Jean Harlow Stew Smith … Robert Williams Gallagher … Loretta Young Proof That It’s Pre-Code A former fiance is asked to settle for some revealing letters, but we’re told “She made very uncouth noises with her mouth.” As you can figure, this a pre-Code that involves one Read more
Bert … James Cagney Ann … Joan Blondell Dan … Louis Calhern Rupert … Guy Kibbee Helen … Noel Francis Reynolds … Ray Milland Proof That It’s Pre-Code This may take a while to load, but I think you’ll understand: Also, more robbery, cheating, lying, ogling and eyebrow waggles Read more
Professor Post … Buster Keaton James … Jimmy Durante Eleanor … Thelma Todd Proof That It’s Pre-Code The usual backstage women getting dressed sort of shots. Thelma Todd takes off her clothes to win a part in a Broadway play, and she does so with relish. Professor Post comments on Read more
Kay Arnold … Barbara Stanwyck Ralph Graves … Jerry Strong Bill Standish … Lowell Sherman Dot Lamar … Marie Provost Claire Collins … Juliette Compton Mrs. Strong … Nance O’Neill Proof That It’s Pre-Code Yes, we have Barbara Stanwyck in a bathtub, please hold your applause until the end of Read more
Lora Hart … Barbara Stanwyck Maloney … Joan Blondell Nick … Clark Gable Mortie … Ben Lyon Eagan … Edward Nugent Dr. Bell … Charles Winninger Proof That It’s Pre-Code Hoo boy. How long have you got? One orderly snipes at a nurse, “Don’t forget to wash that bedpan, and Read more