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Tag Archives: 1930s
Chasing Rainbows (1930) Charles Reisner, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. Read More »
Cocktail Hour (1933) Victor Schertzinger, Bebe Daniels, Randolph Scott, Sidney Blackmer
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist Read More »
The Hurricane (1937) John Ford, Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor
In the Island of Manukura, a French colony in the South Seas, the joyful Terangi is a leader among the natives and the first mate of the Katopua, the tall ship of Captain Nagle. Read More »
The Naughty Flirt (1930) Edward F. Cline, Alice White, Paul Page, Myrna Loy
Coquettish socialite Kay Elliott has set her cap for Alan Ward, an associate in her father’s law firm. Read More »
Diplomaniacs (1933) William A. Seiter, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Marjorie White
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. Read More »
The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932) Michael Curtiz, Lil Dagover, Walter Huston, Warren William
The wife Lil Dagover of a French battleship captain Walter Huston falls for a young officer Warren William. Read More »
Times Square Playboy (1936) William C. McGann, Warren William, June Travis, Barton MacLane
A stock broker’s best man thinks the bride-to-be and her family are just out for the groom’s money, so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding. Read More »
Dont Bet on Blondes (1935) Robert Florey, Warren William, Claire Dodd, Guy Kibbee
Gambler and bookmaker “Odds” Owen decides that the insurance racket is a business that offers better odds and less risk, and this appeals to him and he sets up shop. Read More »
Dames (1934) Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler
Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campaign against ‘filthy’ forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows. Read More »
Burn Em Up OConnor (1939) Edward Sedgwick, Dennis O’Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton
Racing car enthusiast Jerry O’Connor and his dim-witted mechanic, Buddy Buttle, get their chance to join the crew of race car builder Pinky Delano Read More »
Red-Headed Woman (1932) Jack Conway, Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. Read More »
The Secret Six (1931) George W. Hill, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown
Bootlegger/cafe owner Ralph Bellamy recruits crude working man Wallace Beery to join his gang which is masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Lewis Stone. Read More »
The Water Gipsies (1932) Maurice Elvey, Ann Todd, Sari Maritza, Ian Hunter
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died Read More »
Chandu the Magician (1932) William Cameron Menzies, Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi
Megalomaniac and would-be world dominator Roxor has kidnaped Robert Regent, along with his death ray invention Read More »