A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Ten Cents a Dance (1931) Lionel Barrymore, Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley
Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. Read More »
The Purchase Price (1932) William A. Wellman, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot
Torch singer Joan Gordon, tiring of her relationship with small-time hood and racketeer Eddie Fields Read More »
A Lady’s Morals (1930) Sidney Franklin, Grace Moore, Reginald Denny, Wallace Beery
Largely fictionalized biopic of turn-of-the-century nightingale Jenny Lind Read More »
Vogues of 1938 (1937) Irving Cummings, Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett, Helen Vinson
The blueblooded Van Kletterings are broke; debutante Wendy, slated to remedy this by marrying rich bore Henry Morgan Read More »
The Silent Witness (1932) R.L. Hough, Marcel Varnel, Lionel Atwill, Greta Nissen, Weldon Heyburn
A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen). Read More »
Sinners’ Holiday (1930) John G. Adolfi, Grant Withers, Lucille La Verne, Warren Hymer
Ma Delano (La Verne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade, living upstairs with her sons (Cagney and Gallagher) and daughter (Knapp). Read More »
The Emperor Jones (1933) Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille, Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson
At a Baptist prayer meeting, the preacher leads a prayer for Brutus Jones, who is leaving to become a railway porter. Read More »
Cain and Mabel (1936) Lloyd Bacon, Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins
The managers of heavyweight champion Larry Cain and Broadway musical star Mabel O’Dare scheme up a romance to give the celebrities more glamour. Read More »
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin, Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn
An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils Read More »