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
Marky Shirley Temple Sorrowful Jones Adolphe Menjou Bangles Carson Dorothy Dell Released by Parmount | Directed By Alexander Hall Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Clothes don’t mean a thing!” “Yeah, I hear they even get married in those nudist colonies!” “All I know, boss, is that I’m supposed to be a 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
Sadie McKee Joan Crawford Michael Alderson Franchot Tone Tommy Wallace Gene Raymond Jack Brennan Edward Arnold Opal Jean Dixon Dolly Merrick Esther Ralston Released by MGM | Directed By Clarence Brown Proof That It’s Pre-Code Sadie and Tommy move into a one room apartment where it’s noted that the landlord Read more
Jeff Keane Lionel Barrymore Consuela Fairbanks Karen Morley Brenner Nils Asther Released by MGM | Directed By Charles Brabin Proof That It’s Pre-Code A man’s marriage? A SHAM. The government? A SHAM. Eh, there are probably more shammy things here too. Oh, and the Senator tells his daughter playfully, “You’re Read more
The Duchess Constance Bennett Benvenuto Cellini Frederic March Duke of Florence Frank Morgan Angela Fay Wray Ottaviano Louis Calhern Beatrice Jessie Ralph Released by 20th Century Pictures | Directed By Gregory La Cava Proof That It’s Pre-Code-ish It’s a tale of adultery in the old world. The Duke of Florence’s Read more
Virginia Frances Dee Pony Ginger Rogers Mac Bruce Cabot Helen Billie Burke Ms. Van Alstyne Beulah Bondi Frank John Halliday Released by RKO | Directed By Wanda Tuchock and George Nichols Jr. Proof That It’s Pre-Code Schoolgirls in trouble! Drinking! Partying! Staying up late with boys in hotel rooms and Read more
Jimmy Russell Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Stanley Fiske Lee Tracy Sally Condon Ann Dvorak Bernie Olds Warren Hymer Eddie Shaw Lyle Talbot Mary Wodehouse Frances Dee Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By William A. Wellman Proof That It’s Pre-Code Unpunished murder, my friends. The good old fashioned Read more
Guy Holden … Fred Astaire Mimi Glossop … Ginger Rogers Aunt Hortense … Alice Brady Egbert Fitzgerald … Edward Everett Horton Rodolfo Tonetti … Erik Rhodes The Waiter … Eric Blore Proof That It’s Pre-Code-ish The title of the Broadway show this is based on was called The Gay Divorce, Read more