Elmer Joe E. Brown Nellie Patricia Ellis Healy High-Hips Frank McHugh Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Mervyn LeRoy Elmer, the Great: Three Strikes I have a Facebook friend who is real life friends with French Stewart. I have no idea how this happened. I have no idea if Read more…
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…
‘Smoothie’ King Spencer Tracy Wanda Gale Pat Paterson Hal Reed John Boles Limey Brooks Herbert Mundin Spud Mosco Sid Silvers Judith Marlowe Thelma Todd Released by Fox | Directed By David Butler Proof That It’s Pre-Code A selected joke: “I always wanted to be a virtuoso!” “I didn’t ask about 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…
Duke of Charmerace John Barrymore Guarechard Lionel Barrymore Sonia Karen Morley Released by MGM | Directed By Jack Conway Proof That It’s Pre-Code This film has more euphemisms and double entendres than you could shake even possibly three or four sticks at. The Duke of Charmerace first makes the acquaintance Read more…
Nick Charles William Powell Nora Charles Myrna Loy Asta Skippy Released by MGM | Directed By W.S. Van Dyke Proof That It’s Pre-Code Well, Nick Charles punches Nora Charles in the face. There are a large number of jokes about dogs peeing. The police just punch a dude in the Read more…
Agnes ‘Aggie’ Appleby Wynne Gibson Adonriam Schlump Charles Farrell Red Branahan William Gargan Evangeline Betty Furness Sybby Zasu Pitts Aunt Katherine Blanche Friderici Released by RKO | Directed By Mark Sandrich Proof That It’s Pre-Code Sybby (Zasu Pitts) is getting blotto in a speakeasy and exclaims, “At this rate, Mae 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…
J. Pinkham Whinney Charles Ruggles Flora Whinney Mary Boland Sheriff Hoxley W.C. Fields George Edward George Burns Gracie Devore Gracie Allen Mrs. K. Rumford Alison Skipworth Released by Paramount | Directed By Leo McCarey Proof That It’s Pre-Code Not a whole lot, except that one of the subplots is about Read more…