Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
L’atalante (1934) Jean Vigo, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon
When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him as he captains a river barge. Read More »
Marie Antoinette (1938) W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier, Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore
The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. Read More »
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) George Archainbaud, Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. Read More »
Romancero marroquí (1939) Enrique Domínguez Rodiño, Carlos Velo, Aalami, Georg Eilert, Fatma
The young farmer Aalami leaves his family to find work elsewhere. Read More »
The Costello Case (1930) Walter Lang, Tom Moore, Lola Lane, Roscoe Karns
An Irish policeman (Tom Moore) handles gangsters, a mystery woman (Lola Lane) and a wise-guy reporter. Read More »
Dead End (1937) William Wyler, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Read More »
The Trip to Tilsit / Die Reise nach Tilsit (1939) Veit Harlan, Kristina Söderbaum, Philip Dorn, Anna Dammann
From the same Sudermann story that inspired Murnau’s Sunrise Read More »
Riffraff (1936) J. Walter Ruben, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. He quits his poorly paid job Read More »
Shipyard Sally (1939) Monty Banks, Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard, Morton Selten
A music hall performer manages the saloon her father bought. Read More »