Joe Miller Ben Lyon Julie Kirk Claudette Colbert Eli Kirk Ernest Torrence One Punch McCoy Hobart Cavanaugh Ortegus Maurice Black John Phelps Purnell Pratt Released by Reliance Pictures/Edward Small Productions | Directed By James Cruze Proof That It’s Pre-Code Seagulls keep ruining reporter Joe Miller’s Read more
Sally/Mimi/Jenny Claudette Colbert Tony Ricardo Cortez Mike David Manners Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Alexander Hall and George Somnes Proof That It’s Pre-Code That infamous ‘h-e-double-hockey sticks’ word gets dropped. “I get a lot of proposals, too… marriage isn’t one of them.” Our main character has a child Read more
Sweetheart Jack Oakie Pres W.C. Fields Angela Susan Fleming Secretary of the Treasury Hugh Herbert Mata Machree Lyda Roberti Mysterious Man Ben Turpin Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Edward F. Cline Proof That It’s Pre-Code The President: Hello sweetheart. Migg Tweeny: Listen, my name’s Tweeny. The President: You’ll Read more
Terry Pat O’Brien Marie Joan Blondell Johnny Allen Jenkins Bonnie Glenda Farrell Joe Eugene Pallette Nicky Gordon Westcott Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Ray Enright Proof That It’s Pre-Code One of the wonders of the telephone is that you can phone your boss and warn her that her Read more
Jerry Fredric March Joan Sylvia Sidney Claire Adrienne Allen Buck Skeets Gallagher Vi Esther Howard Mr. Prentice George Irving Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Dorothy Arzner Proof That It’s Pre-Code The movie is based on a short story entitled, “I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan.” This was changed to Read more
Capt. John Holmes John Wayne Felipe Verranca Louis Alberni Dolores Castanares Ruth Hall Don Luis Gonzalez Donald Reed Jake Morgan Slim Whitaker Duke Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Mack V. Wright Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Aww, stick those cards in your–” “Senor!” “In your pocket. Come on!” The Read more
Baron Munchausen Jack Pearl Joe McGoo Jimmy Durante Zasu Zasu Pitts Dean Primrose Edna Mae Oliver The Janitors Ted Healy and His Three Stooges Baron Munchausen Henry Kolker Released by MGM | Directed By Walter Lang Proof That It’s Pre-Code Well: Plus a number of borderline racy jokes. … look, Read more
Oscar Jaffe John Barrymore Lily Garland Carole Lombard Oliver Webb Walter Connolly Owen O’Malley Roscoe Karns George Smith Ralph Forbes Matthew J. Clark Etienne Girardot Released by Columbia | Directed By Howard Hawks Proof That It’s Pre-Code A couple lives together despite not being married. They share a bed shaped 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
Glory Eden … Ginger Rogers Jim Davey … Norman Foster Speed Dennis … Frank McHugh Sam Ipswich … Gregory Ratoff Elmerada De Leon … Zasu Pitts Vera … Theresa Harris O’Connor … Allen Jenkins Herbert Childress … Franklin Pangborn Stu … Sterling Holloway Released by RKO | Directed By William Read more