A husband makes fun of his wife’s theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
King of the Damned (1935) Walter Forde, Conrad Veidt, Helen Vinson, Noah Beery
An educated convict and prisoner leads a group of other inmates in a rebellion against Read More »
State Fair (1933) Henry King, Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres
The Frake family attend the Iowa State Fair. Father Abel enters his Hampshire boar Read More »
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Frank Capra, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers Read More »
True Confession (1937) Wesley Ruggles
Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Read More »
My Lucky Star (1938) Roy Del Ruth, Sonja Henie, Richard Greene, Joan Davis
The son (Romero) of a department store owner enrolls the store’s sports clerk (Henie) Read More »
Evenings for Sale (1932) Stuart Walker, Herbert Marshall, Sari Maritza, Charles Ruggles
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. Read More »
A Woman of Experience (1931) Harry Joe Brown
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Read More »
Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) Worthington Miner, Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Robbins, John Beal
A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife’s lover, who’s been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village. Read More »
Four Seasons of Children / Kodomo no shiki (1939) Hiroshi Shimizu, Teruo Furuya, Masao Hayama, Shin’ichi Himori
A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. Read More »