In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
No Man of Her Own (1932) Wesley Ruggles, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Drama, Romance
Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he is hiding out. Read More »
A Warm Corner (1930) Victor Saville, Leslie Henson, Heather Thatcher, Austin Melford, Comedy, Romance
This early Gainsborough flick is truly a lost treasure, and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. Read More »
The World Moves On (1934) John Ford, Madeleine Carroll, Franchot Tone, Reginald Denny, Drama, History, Romance, War
Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons. When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt. Read More »
Bedside (1934) Robert Florey, Warren William, Jean Muir, Allen Jenkins, Drama
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses. Read More »
Test Pilot (1938) Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Drama, Romance
Jim Lane is a test pilot, whose professional life is dangerous, and whose personal life compensates for that danger by fast living and recklessness. Read More »
One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) Henry Koster, Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Comedy, Music
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings Read More »
Lawyer Man (1932) William Dieterle, William Powell, Joan Blondell, David Landau, Drama, Romance
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Read More »
Mad About Music (1938) Norman Taurog, Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick, Comedy, Drama, Musical
A young woman at a girl’s school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father Read More »
Rosalie (1937) W.S. Van Dyke, Nelson Eddy, Eleanor Powell, Frank Morgan, Drama, Musical
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom. Read More »
Stage Mother (1933) Charles Brabin, Alice Brady, Maureen O’Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Drama, Musical, Romance
A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband’s stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. Read More »
We Went to College (1936) Joseph Santley, Charles Butterworth, Walter Abel, Hugh Herbert, Comedy
Phil is high strung and needs a rest so Nina talks him into going to the Sutter College homecoming. Read More »
The Lady Objects (1938) Erle C. Kenton, Gloria Stuart, Lanny Ross, Joan Marsh, Drama, Music, Romance
Ann Adams and William Hayward get married and she has a secretary’s job in a law office, while finishing her schooling, and she soon makes junior partner and is just a brilliant lawyer. Read More »
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor, Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan. They have to get there fast, as the evil genius Dr. Fu Manchu is also searching Read More »
Flirtation Walk (1934) Frank Borzage, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O’Brien, Musical, Romance
A Musical-romance with Dick Powell as a private stationed in Hawaii who gets involved with Ruby Keeler, the general’s engaged daughter. Read More »