
A troupe of actors comes to town, short on funds and bedeviled by bad weather, so they can’t put on shows. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
She Had to Say Yes (1933) George Amy, Busby Berkeley, Loretta Young, Winnie Lightner, Lyle Talbot, Drama, Romance

It is the bottom of the depression and Sol Glass has the idea that the girls in the stenographic department should be used to entertain the clients. Read More »
Four Wives (1939) Michael Curtiz, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Drama, Romance

Three of the four musically inclined daughters of Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, are settling into their lives as wives, but not all is well. Read More »
The Duke of West Point (1938) Alfred E. Green, Louis Hayward, Joan Fontaine, Tom Brown, Drama

Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Read More »
Topper (1937) Norman Z. McLeod, Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

The funloving Kerbys, stockholders in the bank of which henpecked, stuffy Cosmo Topper is president, drive recklessly once too often and become ghosts. Read More »
Wide Open (1930) Archie Mayo, Edward Everett Horton, Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise Fazenda, Comedy

A nervous woman-shy office clerk, already troubled by an amorous female co-worker, suddenly has to deal with a very forward Read More »
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) Leni Riefenstahl, Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi, Documentary, Sport

After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics Read More »
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) Leni Riefenstahl, David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford, Documentary, Sport

After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics Read More »
Der Dibuk / The Dybbuk (1937) Michal Waszynski, Avrom Morewski, Ajzyk Samberg, Mojzesz Lipman, Drama, Fantasy

In a Polish shtetl, two young men who have grown up together betrothe their unborn children, ignoring the advice of a mysterious traveler not to pledge the lives of future generations. Read More »
Human Cargo (1936) Allan Dwan, Claire Trevor, Brian Donlevy, Alan Dinehart, Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Bonnie Brewster (Claire Trevor) and “Packy” Campbell (Brian Donlevy), rival reporters on competing newspapers Read More »