On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright’s bar. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Forty Naughty Girls (1937) Edward F. Cline, James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
Police Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegared Withers attend the opening night of a Broadway play in New York City Read More »
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) H. Bruce Humberstone, Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore
When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Read More »
Blondie of the Follies (1932) Edmund Goulding, Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove
Blondie, a New York tenement dweller, and Lurlene are best friends. When Lurlene makes the cast of a big Broadway show, she arranges for Blondie to join the cast as well. Read More »
Student Tour (1934) Charles Reisner, Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Maxine Doyle
A college rowing team’s world tour is in jeopardy because a philosophy professor plans to flunk the entire crew. Read More »
Fight for Your Lady (1937) Benjamin Stoloff, John Boles, Jack Oakie, Ida Lupino
Ham Hamilton knows that gold-digger Marcia Trent is only after Robert Densmore for his money, so he tells Marcia that Robert is broke and she calls off the announced wedding. Read More »
Freshman Love (1936) William C. McGann, Patricia Ellis, Warren Hull, Frank McHugh
Frank McHugh is a college rowing coach, in a desperate attempt to acquire top rowers for his team Read More »
The Goldwyn Follies (1938) George Marshall, H.C. Potter, Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, The Ritz Brothers
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be “Miss Humanity” and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. Hit song: “Love Walked In.” Read More »
Wild Company (1930) Leo McCarey, Frank Albertson, Joyce Compton, Sharon Lynn
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club. Read More »
Baby Face Harrington (1935) Raoul Walsh, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens
Willie Harrington is a wimpy small-town bookkeeper at a bank who unwittingly gets involved with the country’s toughest gangster and his gang Read More »