Vicki Wallace (Joan Blondell) takes great pleasure in teasing her husband,Tony Wallace (Warren William), who takes no pleasure at all in being teased Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Parachute Jumper (1933) Alfred E. Green, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Drama
To share expenses unemployed Alabama move in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster’s mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster’s bodyguard. Read More »
Broadway Bad (1933) Sidney Lanfield, Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Drama
Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing. Read More »
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932) Alfred E. Green, Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Bette Davis, Comedy, Drama, Romance
The ten year marriage of of Caroline Van Dyke and Greg Grannard is falling apart. A young woman, Allison, plots to become his second wife. Read More »
It’s Love I’m After (1937) Archie Mayo, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Comedy
Renowned stage actors Basil Underwood and Joyce Arden are partners on and off the stage. Read More »
Havana Widows (1933) Ray Enright, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee, Comedy
Mae and Sadie, impecunious chorus girls, chisel some money from an admirer and head for Havana to “dig gold” among the millionaires. Read More »
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) Michael Curtiz, Ann Dvorak, Lee Tracy, Richard Cromwell, Crime, Drama, Romance
Abandoned by her mother at a young age, Molly Louvain is seen as no good, but she dreams of living respectably with her sweetheart Jimmy, who has promised to marry her. Read More »
Girl in Danger (1934) D. Ross Lederman, Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Arthur Hohl, Mystery
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster. Read More »
Street Scene (1931) King Vidor, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Drama, Romance
In a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors of her residential building about the affair of Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey. Read More »
Miss Pinkerton (1932) Lloyd Bacon, Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues Read More »