Tag Archives: 1930s

Nine year-old orphan ‘Pip’ Pirrip lives with his harridan older sister and her hen-pecked but good-natured blacksmith husband Joe Gargery in rural, Regency-Period Britain. Read More »

Johnny Lovo rises to the head of the bootlegging crime syndicate on the south side of Chicago following the murder of former head, Big Louis Costillo. Read More »

Lois is the editor of the 400 Magazine and is a work-a-holic. When Tom comes to her office to sell her a rowing machine, he leaves as her personal secretary. Read More »

The old British musical-hall ditty “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” provides the title for this lightweight Ronald Colman vehicle. Read More »

In Victorian London, the botanist Irwin Molyneux and his wife Margaret Molyneux are bankrupted Read More »

A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl. Read More »

Bank employee Ruth Brock has a reputation around town for being fast-and-easy but none of the panting suitors has made her yet. Read More »

A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway. Read More »

A southern country doctor is called on by a visiting circus man to cure his sick elephant. Read More »

It is the fifth anniversary of the death of Adolphe Noblet who died in a train wreck. Read More »