Bill Bailey is a Los Angeles bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Bad Seed (1934) Alexander Esway, Billy Wilder, Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Raymond Galle
In the 30’s, in Paris, the playboy Henri Pasquier is supported by his father, Dr. Pasquier with money and a brandy new car. Read More »
In Person (1935) William A. Seiter, Ginger Rogers, George Brent, Alan Mowbray
Noted psychiatrist Dr. Aaron Sylvester has Hollywood star Carol Corliss as a patient. Read More »
The Silver Cord (1933) John Cromwell, Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea, Laura Hope Crews
Sidney Howard’s once-controversial play about the smothering aspects of Mother Love, The Silver Cord was filmed in 1933 with Laura Hope Crews recreating her stage role. Read More »
Rockabye (1932) George Cukor, George Fitzmaurice, Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Paul Lukas
Actress Judy Carroll, from the gas-house district has been trained, educated and developed so well by her manager Read More »
Secret Lives (1937) Edmond T. Gréville, Brigitte Horney, Neil Hamilton, Raymond Lovell
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War Read More »
Love Among the Millionaires (1930) Frank Tuttle, Clara Bow, Stanley Smith, Stuart Erwin
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with him and his family in Palm Springs. Read More »
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) Irving Cummings, Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart
Little Barbara gets lost and is then picked up by entertainers who make her part of their act. Barbara’s father hears the act on the radio and finds his lost daughter. Read More »
Racing Lady (1937) Wallace Fox, Ann Dvorak, Smith Ballew, Harry Carey
In a film advertised and sold as a Damon Runyon story, but actually combined elements from his “All Scarlet” and another story written by J. Robert Bren and Norman Houston called “Odds Are Even” Read More »
The Tunnel (1933) Curtis Bernhardt, Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Robert Le Vigan
An engineer is hired to plan the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. Read More »
Playing Around (1930) Mervyn LeRoy, Alice White, Chester Morris, William Bakewell
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. Read More »
Stage Struck (1936) Busby Berkeley, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Warren William
Broadway dance director George Randall (Dick Powell) is stuck with staging a Broadway show starring Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell) Read More »
Divine (1935) Max Ophüls, Simone Berriau, George Rigaud, Gina Manès
Ludivine Jarisse is a young woman who lives a contented but unexciting life in the country. Read More »
Fire Over England (1937) William K. Howard, Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Vivien Leigh
Queen Elizabeth is running this show. The men in her court should be thinking about how to add to the glory of the Elizabethan Age Read More »
Small Town Girl (1936) William A. Wellman, Robert Z. Leonard, Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. Read More »