Tag Archives: 1930s

Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. Read More »

Torch singer Joan Gordon, tiring of her relationship with small-time hood and racketeer Eddie Fields Read More »

Largely fictionalized biopic of turn-of-the-century nightingale Jenny Lind Read More »

The blueblooded Van Kletterings are broke; debutante Wendy, slated to remedy this by marrying rich bore Henry Morgan Read More »

A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen). Read More »

Ma Delano (La Verne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade, living upstairs with her sons (Cagney and Gallagher) and daughter (Knapp). Read More »

At a Baptist prayer meeting, the preacher leads a prayer for Brutus Jones, who is leaving to become a railway porter. Read More »

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 »

An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils Read More »

The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man’s lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Read More »