Kitty Brown Norma Shearer Bob Brown Rod LaRocque Mrs. Bouccicault Marie Dressler Madge Hedda Hopper Wallace Tyrell Davis Townley Gilbert Emery Diane Sally Eilers Bruce Raymond Hackett Whitman Wilfred Noy Released by MGM | Directed By Robert Z. Leonard Proof That It’s Pre-Code Crumbum Kitty Brown goes from housewife to Read more…
Kathleen / Moonyeen Norma Shearer Sir John Carteret Leslie Howard Kenneth / Jeremy Frederic March Released by MGM | Directed By Sidney Franklin Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Don’t you want me? I want you. And I’m not ashamed to say it.” An injury to one of the characters later in Read more…
Nina Norma Shearer Ned Clark Gable Sam Alexander Kirkland Charlie Ralph Morgan Gordon Robert Young Madeline Maureen O’Sullivan Released by MGM | Directed by Robert Z. Leonard Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Self important ass!” “I’ve been bad, Charlie. Wicked. I need to be punished. And you’re the only one who Read more…
Tom Walter Woolf Dawn Vivienne Segal Shep Keyes Noah Beery Pigeon Lupino Lane Joanna Marion Byron Blink Lee Moran Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Ray Enright Proof That It’s Pre-Code Blackface galore, and plenty of ugly racial politics to boot. “Silly arse.” A woman wants a man who Read more…
Jack Joe Schenck Jerry Gus Van Mary Bessie Love Released by MGM | Directed By Jack Conway and Sam Wood Proof That It’s Pre-Code Good, kind ol’ Jack is the victim of a true-blue, barely-hiding-it gold digger. Marriage and divorce may be involved. Those of you who love watching men Read more…
Countess Helene Mara Jeanette MacDonald Count Rudolph Farriere Jack Buchanan Prince Otto Von Liebenheim Claude Allister Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Ernst Lubitsch Proof That It’s Pre-Code Jeanette MacDonald is probably wearing just a neglige for about 25% of the movie. The Prince Liebenheim’s introductory song assures us Read more…
Rasputin Lionel Barrymore Prince Chegodieff John Barrymore The Czarina Ethel Barrymore The Czar Ralph Morgan Natasha Diana Wynyard The Czarevitch Tad Alexander Released by MGM | Directed By Charles Brabin and Richard Boleslawski Proof That It’s Pre-Code Rasputin, the charmer, is clearly blackmailing women into having sex with him. Rasputin Read more…
Dick ‘Court’ Courtney Richard Barthelmess Douglas Scott Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Major Brand Neil Hamilton Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Howard Hawks The Dawn Patrol: The Circle of Death “Wouldn’t it be funny to be back there again? Imagine getting up in the morning and having nothing to do Read more…
Juan De Dios Ramon Novarro Consuelo Dorothy Jordan Esteban Ernest Torrence Lola Renee Adoree Captain Vargas Russell Hopton La Rumbarita Mathilde Comon Released by MGM | Directed By Charles Brabin Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Do you know the difference between a piano and a parrot? You’re too young to hear Read more…
Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Roy Mack Yours Sincerely: Bizarre Love Quadrangle “Don’t count your children before they’re hitched!” “Yours Sincerely” is a nice twenty minute mark. Like a lot of shorts, the comedic songs are better than the dramatic ones– here we have a bad seduction in Read more…