Tag Archives: 1930s

Voted 1936’s best picture by a circle of prestigious French critics, Jean Renoir’s The Lower Depths (Les Bas-Fonds) is based on the “gutter” play by Russian author Maxim Gorky. Read More »

Renowned Broadway producer/director Julian Marsh is hired to put together a new musical revue. Read More »

Gabby lives and works at her dads small diner out in the desert. She can’t stand it and wants to go and live with her mother in France. Read More »

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Read More »

Professor Wong has invented a television and invites everyone to see it at China’s International House Hotel. Read More »

Bill Bailey is a Los Angeles bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. Read More »

In the 30’s, in Paris, the playboy Henri Pasquier is supported by his father, Dr. Pasquier with money and a brandy new car. Read More »

Noted psychiatrist Dr. Aaron Sylvester has Hollywood star Carol Corliss as a patient. Read More »

Sidney Howard’s once-controversial play about the smothering aspects of Mother Love, The Silver Cord was filmed in 1933 with Laura Hope Crews recreating her stage role. Read More »

Actress Judy Carroll, from the gas-house district has been trained, educated and developed so well by her manager Read More »