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Tag Archives: 1930s
Unashamed (1932) Harry Beaumont, Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Young, Lewis Stone

Dick will do anything to protect his sister Jean as would her father. Read More »
Zouzou (1934) Marc Allégret, Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey

As children, Zouzou and Jean are paired in a traveling circus as twins: she’s dark, he’s light. Read More »
The Widow from Monte Carlo (1935) Arthur Greville Collins, Warren William, Dolores del Rio, Louise Fazenda

Blackmail puts a social climber (Louise Fazenda) and a suitor (Warren William) in a duchess’s (Dolores del Río) good graces. Read More »
Charlie Chan’s Secret (1936) Gordon Wiles, Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley

An ocean liner sinks off Honolulu and Allen Colby, heir to millions Read More »
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) John Cromwell, Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith

After the death of Cedric (‘Ceddie’)’s English father, he and his mother live together in Brooklyn. Read More »
Society Smugglers (1939) Joe May, Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, Walter Woolf King

The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds. Read More »
Mary Jane’s Pa (1935) William Keighley, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Read More »
The Spider (1931) Kenneth MacKenna, William Cameron Menzies, Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel

The great Chartrand (Edmund Lowe) can make people disappear and his assistant, Alexander, dazzles the crowd with his psychic abilities. Read More »
Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1930) Géza von Bolváry, Walter Janssen, Oskar Karlweis, Willi Forst

Toni Hofer and brothers Vicki and Nicki Mahler are working on a new operetta. Read More »