Kitty Alice Faye Happy Jimmy Durante Jimmy Rudy Vallee Released by Fox Film Directed by George White Run time: 79 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “You Nasty Man!” features gams galore and oodles of men focusing in on various lady appendages with delight. Jimmy Durante has lost his Read more…
Ms. Dory Macy Bebe Daniels John Thorley Lewis Stone Bob Ben Lyon Released by Warner Bros. Directed by Roy Del Ruth Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “I can’t swim with a suit on!” “What would your wife say if she knew I was here?” “But Read more…
Hilda Irene Dunne Stingaree Richard Dix Mrs. Clarkson Mary Boland Sir Julian Conway Tearle Howie Andy Devine Mr. Clarkson Henry Stephenson Released by RKO Directed by William Wellman Run time: 77 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Hilda is kidnapped into the bush by dashing bandit Stingaree, and she Read more…
Terry Lawrence Tibbett Nenita Lupe Velez Romance Ernest Torrence O.O. Jones Jimmy Durante Crystal Karen Morley Elvira Louise Fazenda Released by MGM Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Run time: 86 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The film starts with a pack of rowdy Marines down at the tattoo Read more…
Tom Leslie Howard Daisy Ann Harding Cecilia Myrna Loy Released by RKO Directed by Edward H. Griffith and George Cukor Run time: 85 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Tom, our lead, has been intimate in the past with Daisy and really desperately wants to be intimate with Cecilia, Read more…
Dan Pritchard Leslie Howard Tamea Conchita Montenegro Maisie Karen Morley Released by MGM Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Run time: 79 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “You make one big mistake in not watching me dress!” “She’s a very delightful little savage.” “You like wine?” “Oh yes. It Read more…
Marian Joan Crawford Mark Whitney Clark Gable Al Manning Wallace Ford Released by MGM Directed by Clarence Brown Run time: 76 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Joan Crawford plays a fallen, kept woman who loves her life no matter how many times she gets trampled on or slapped. Read more…
Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller Jane Maureen O’Sullivan Harry Neil Hamilton Released by MGM Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Run time: 108 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Jane razzes on her father (while she undresses in front of him): “Darling, don’t be silly and embarrassed by me! Why, you bathed Read more…
Ivy/Bunny Joan Crawford Howard Neil Hamilton Carl Clark Gable Fred Roscoe Karns Cass Guy Kibbee Mike Cliff Edwards Released by MGM | Directed by Harry Beaumont Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Drinking. Attempted suicide. That old joke about the traveling salesman over and over again. Read more…
Valentine Joan Crawford Bob Neil Hamilton Tony Monroe Owsley Released by MGM | Directed by Nick Grinde Run time: 68 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film An inter-generational tale where a girl is shielded from the fact that her long-estranged mother is in fact a ‘kept’ woman. “I’m going Read more…