Three Wise Girls from 1931 with Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke, Marie Prevost, James Thomas and Walter Byron
Precode Hollywood churned out so many "a young and innocent small-town girl moves to New York City'' movies that they can be hard to keep straight, especially good but generic ones like Three...
I haven't read "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (I have seen and enjoyed the Leslie Howard movie version), but what you just said echoed in my head with another book published in 1905, "The House of Mirth."
In it, there is a pretty major character who is a Jew and he encounters some anti-semitism along...
In Which We Serve from 1942 with Noel Coward, Celia Johnson, John Mills and Kay Walsh
In Which We Serve is not Mrs. Miniver, the standard by which all other WWII propaganda films should be judged, but it is in the top five. By seamlessly blending homefront stories, naval battle scenes, the...
Below are a few more fun tidbit, with their captions, from the Clover Press "extras" book on "Terry and the Pirates."
"The cartoonist...found his 'Taffy' when he came across Bernice Taylor, a real-life Army nurse."
"Original [Caniff] artwork for a ground defense public service campaign."
Born to Kill from 1947 with Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Elisha Cook Jr., Esther Howard, Walter Slezak, Audrey Long and Phillip Terry
Sex, money and murder, just not in that order, drive everything that happens in Born to Kill, a dark, even for film noir, offering from RKO Studios starring...
I don't think I've seen that Saint one. Based on your review, I'll keep an eye out for it now.
Of the Falcon series ones I've seen, "The Falcon in Hollywood" and "Falcon and the Co-eds" are the ones that I remember liking the best.
"Come and get it, ---cker?" JEEZ Burms, and in the Sunday paper!
I am so worried about her. I do see one heck of a cool rescue coming.
It's like visiting with an old friend...who doesn't wear a lot of clothes.
I bought my girlfriend's mother's kitten, Aria, a canvas tote so that she'd have something to take all her important stuff - think cat toys - in when they go somewhere, but so far, it seems Aria thinks the tote is to carry her.
Young at Heart from 1954 with Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Ethel Barrymore, Robert Keith, Gig Young, Dorothy Malone, Elisabeth Fraser, Alan Hale Jr. and Lonny Chapman
If you've seen Four Daughters, the 1938 version of Young at Heart, it is hard not to compare the later version to the original. On...
New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford from 1931 with William Haines, Leila Hyams, Guy Kibbee, Ernest Torrence and Jimmy Durante
In the 1930s and 1940s, Hollywood created an entire genre of stories about urbane con men and women whom you know are crooked, but you can't help liking...
While this woman has no good intentions, she does have a point, how old is Annie supposed to be? Even in 1944, weren't there laws against her just living on her own like she does?
Love Is a Racket from 1932 with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Frances Dee, Lee Tracy, Lyle Talbot and Ann Dvorak
Love is a Racket is another excellent precode that flies below the radar of even precode fans. Perhaps that's because it features four precode stars - Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Dvorak...
Glad the slot machines are coming back - Ma can't make a living running a candy store.
Agreed, Burma is much smarter than that. Also, if Burma is doing what I guess she has to be doing in the town's water tower, ew.
Escape from 1940 with Robert Taylor, Norma Shearer, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova, Felix Bressart and Philip Dorn
It is legitimate to criticize Hollywood's "approach" to the German market prior to America's entry in WWII, but several anti-Nazi movies did get made, even if Tinseltown tried to...
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