Pre-1934 Films...

[Avalon]

I am so happy that some of the Pre-Codes are being shown on TCM. :eusa_clap I really need to see more of them. (Perhaps I will sign up for Netflix after all.)

A book I can't recommend highly enough is "Sin in Soft Focus" by Mark A. Vieira. Fascinating background about the Pre-Codes, and chock-full of gorgeous pictures to boot.

 

[Girl Friday]

Redheaded Woman was on when I was leaving for work this morning.

 

[Feraud]

I too noticed the pre-code films showing on TCM.
Does anyone know if there is a box set available of these movies?

 

[Avalon]

I too noticed the pre-code films showing on TCM.
Does anyone know if there is a box set available of these movies?

TCM was advertising four of them in a box set called "Forbidden Hollywood Vol. I" last night:

-Baby Face
-Waterloo Bridge
-Red Headed Woman
-Under Eighteen (I think)

I'm still really miffed that I couldn't stay up for Miss Harlow's movie

 

[Feraud]

TCM was advertising four of them in a box set called "Forbidden Hollywood Vol. I" last night:

-Baby Face
-Waterloo Bridge
-Red Headed Woman
-Under Eighteen (I think)

I'm still really miffed that I couldn't stay up for Miss Harlow's movie

Thanks Avalon! Another box set to put on the "to get" list.

You need a recordable cable box!

 

[Avalon]

Thanks Avalon! Another box set to put on the "to get" list.

You need a recordable cable box!

You're welcome!

Oy, I know. :eusa_doh: If only Santa could leave me a TiVo...

 

[Feraud]

Oy, I know. :eusa_doh: If only Santa could leave me a TiVo...

The bad side is recording everthing and trying to find the time to watch it. Woe is me....lol

 

[Avalon]

Y'know, I could take it off your hands if it's causing you that much sorrow and pain...:whistling

 

[Feraud]

Y'know, I could take it off your hands if it's causing you that much sorrow and pain...:whistling

oh, I'll suffer through it.

 

[Avalon]

oh, I'll suffer through it.

 

[Feraud]

I get that a lot! lol

 

[Mike in Seattle]

The four they showed last night were great. I'd heard about what the post-Arbuckle code did to movies in film classic in college about 25 years ago, but I had no idea how wild some of those films were. They also ran a little featurette on the pre-code films which was great. One gal in her mid-80's, looking like someone's grandmother (you could totally picture her knitting with a cat on her lap as she's talking) and talking about Harlow's "spectacular" somethings, how pointed they were, how she used to ice herself down before takes. I about fell out of my chair. Wouldn't have fazed me a bit if some teen to twenties woman was talking like that, but someone this woman's age & appearance, and so blase about it took me by surprise. OK, OK, someone about her age that wouldn't have been so unexpected - Mae West. But somehow, even in her 80's, I couldn't picture Mae West as someone's grandmother, sitting quietly by a fire knitting a scarf.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I worship the pre-Code era.

It is my favourite by a landslide. My LJ is completely devoted to my love of them. They are indeed underrated gems.

 

[HadleyH]

Oh! how I love that frisky period in the early thirties, before Hollywood was strangle by the censors ... " That's when talking pictures found their legs, and spoke their piece, often with a wad of gum in their mouths......that's when gangster films were the original items ,they supplied the references....that's when sin still carried the tang of forbidden fruit."


Hey, I worship them too.