Kitty Lorraine Alice Brady Shirley Lorraine Maureen O’Sullivan Warren Foster Franchot Tone Released by MGM | Directed by Charles Brabin Run time: 84 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film In one of the most unique scenes of the entire pre-Code era, the titular ‘stage mother’ offers to hook her Read more…
Florence Loretta Young Maizee Winnie Lightner Daniel Lyle Talbot Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by George Amy & Busby Berkeley Run time: 64 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film It’s about forced prostitution, virginity, and petulant male power grabs. She Had to Say Yes: It’s an Awful, Awful Read more…
Lola Loretta Young Ken Norman Foster Agnes Aline MacMahon Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Thornton Freeland Run time: 67 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film A working women succeeds in a man’s world. Men wake up in the morning with one thing on their mind. Week-End Marriage: Read more…
Doris Roberts Winnie Lightner Herbert P. Herbert Charles Butterworth Lou & Jake Smith & Dale Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Lloyd Bacon Run time: 75 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Set in the world of costume design, it’s a good excuse to showcase good figures. “Henry Read more…
Olga Aline MacMahon Myra Ann Dvorak George Preston Foster Mrs. Tifton Glenda Farrell Frank Frank McHugh Mrs. Ashton-Ashley Ruth Donnelly Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Mervy LeRoy Run time: 61 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Two women exit a car and beg the attendant: “Can you Read more…
Jerry Peggy Shannon Brice Russell Hopton Bill Sterling Holloway Released by Pyramid | Directed by Anton Lorenze Run time: 65 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “I’ve got something red hot– all about that evangelist having a baby!” Her big scoop is a ‘love nest suicide’. Our heroine Read more…
Trader Horn Harry Carey Peru Duncan Renaldo Nina – The White Goddess Edwina Booth Released by MGM | Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Run time: 122 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film It’s racist as hell. Another film that posits that black women’s breasts aren’t as sinful to see Read more…
Ann Carver Fay Wray Bill Graham Gene Raymond Carole Rodgers Claire Dodd Released by Columbia | Directed by Edward Buzzell Run time: 68 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film A woman… with a college degree! And… and she doesn’t want to sit around the house! It’s madness I tell Read more…
Ann Vickers Irene Dunne Barney Dolphin Walter Huston Lindsey Atwell Conrad Nagel Released by RKO | Directed by John Cromwell Run time: 76 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film One suspicious trip to Havana that ends in an out-of-wedlock child’s life ending. One prisoner is told, “We’ll have to Read more…
Beatrice Pullman Claudette Colbert Delilah Johnson Louise Beavers Stephen Archer Warren William Peola Johnson Fredi Washington Jessie Pullman Rochelle Hudson Elmer Smith Ned Sparks Released by Universal Pictures | Directed by John M. Stahl Proof That It’s Pre-Code-ish The relationship between two women, one black and one white, and their Read more…