Pilar, a young Aragonese girl, is loved by two men. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
These Three (1936) William Wyler, Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea
This first film version of “The Children’s Hour” uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play’s lesbian theme. Read More »
Accused, Stand Up! / Accusée… levez-vous! (1930) Maurice Tourneur, Gaby Morlay, Suzanne Delvé, Camille Bert
Paris, 30’s declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Read More »
Behind the Make-Up (1930) Robert Milton, Dorothy Arzner, Henry Hathaway, Hal Skelly, William Powell, Fay Wray
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer Read More »
This Man Is Mine (1934) John Cromwell, Irene Dunne, Constance Cummings, Ralph Bellamy
Irene Dunne is married to Ralph Bellamy. Their union is comfortable but all that changes Read More »
Invitation to Happiness (1939) Wesley Ruggles, Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, Charles Ruggles
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer’s daughter. Read More »
On Your Toes (1939) Ray Enright, Vera Zorina, Eddie Albert, Alan Hale
Junior Donal, an ex-vaudevillian now teaching music at Knickerbocker University in New York Read More »
Pack Up Your Troubles (1939) H. Bruce Humberstone, Jane Withers, The Ritz Brothers, Lynn Bari
Out of work vaudevillians join the army in WWI and head for France Read More »
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934) Norman Taurog, Pauline Lord, W.C. Fields, Zasu Pitts
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew Read More »
Grand Hotel (1932) Edmund Goulding, Greta Garbo
Berlin’s plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words Read More »