Annie Snodgrass Zasu Pitts T. Fenny Sylvester Nat Pendleton Adam Frink Edward Everett Horton Toots McGuire Ned Sparks Ruby Pert Kelton Oswald John Qualen Released by RKO | Directed By William A. Seiter Proof That It’s Pre-Code Former actress-turned-kept woman Ruby (Kelton) insists, “I belong to the world!” Sylvester (Pendleton) Read more…
Jim Towner Clive Brook Fanny Towner Kay Francis Rosie Duggan Miriam Hopkins Tony Bruzzi Regis Toomey Hector Champion George Barbier David Melbourne Minor Watson Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Marion Gering Proof That It’s Pre-Code Drugs. Sex. Murder. 24 Hours: Counting Down the Minutes “It’s like having a Read more…
Helen/Raquel Constance Bennett Doug Franchot Tone Vicky Tullio Carminati Released by 20th Century Pictures | Directed By Sidney Lanfield Proof That It’s Pre-Code Doug needs to compose his newest musical number in the lady’s room since everywhere else is taken. One of the film’s musical numbers revolves around a woman’s Read more…
Sylvia Bruce Marion Davies Bill Williams Bing Crosby Lili Yvonne Fifi D’Orsay Conroy Ned Sparks Jill Patsy Kelly Ernest Baker Stuart Erwin Released by MGM | Directed By Raoul Walsh Proof That It’s Pre-Code “What’s the ‘P’ for?” “Pratt.” “I knew it.” Bing makes a joke about having drank absinthe. 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…
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…
Released by United Artists | Directed By Burt Gillett Babes in the Wood: A Murder Most Fun Say what you will about Walt Disney the man (and we’ll all say things, that’s for sure), there’s little doubt that the Disney Studios has produced some impressive work in their eight decades Read more…