The setting is that of a farming family in Ibaraki from where also the originating writers hailed. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Free and Easy (1930) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. Read More »
Dancing Sweeties (1930) Ray Enright, Grant Withers, Sue Carol, Tully Marshall
Bill is a hot shot dancer who partners with Jazzbo, until he sees Molly at the dance. Read More »
Brother Alfred (1932) Henry Edwards, Gene Gerrard, Molly Lamont, Elsie Randolph
Musical comedy star Gene Gerard breezes his inimitable way through the 1932 British programmer Brother Alfred. Read More »
Special Investigator (1936) Louis King, Richard Dix, Margaret Callahan, Erik Rhodes
Bill Fenwick, criminal lawyer, is becoming a mouthpiece for mobsters, when his brother George Read More »
Unashamed (1932) Harry Beaumont
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 »