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March 26, 2017 by smumcounty
Every Sunday I go through the Turner Classic Movies listings for the next week (that’s about as far ahead as …
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Category: 1930s, Drama, Pre-Code
| Tags: Allen Jenkins, Bette Davis, Bureau of Missing Persons, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Lewis Stone, Pat O'Brien, Programmer, Ruth Donnelly, Warner Brothers
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December 30, 2016 by smumcounty
With the recent release of “La La Land” (2016) in theaters, the first big budget musical in many moons, it …
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Category: 1930s, Comedy, Musicals
| Tags: Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, RKO, The Gay Divorcee
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June 27, 2016 by smumcounty
Few film sequels can claim to be better than their originals. Now that I think of it, almost none can …
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Category: 1930s, Horror
| Tags: Boris Karloff, Bride of Frankenstein, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesinger, Frankenstein, James Whale, O.P. Heggie, Una O'Connor
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April 17, 2016 by smumcounty
Political movies are not a real genre these days. In our politically divided environment, studios can’t risk alienating large swaths …
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Category: 1930s, Pre-Code, War
| Tags: Diana Wynward, Lewis Stone, May Robson, Men Must Fight, Phillips Holmes
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January 26, 2016 by smumcounty
At first glance, Turner Classic Movies may seem like a godsend for classic film fanatics, and, indeed, it is, with …
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Category: 1930s, Comedy
| Tags: Anatole Litvak, Anita Louise, Basil Rathbone, Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert, Fritz Feld, Isabel Jeans, Jaques Deval, Maurice Murphy, Melville Cooper, Robert E. Sherwood, Tovarich, Tovarich 1937
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October 17, 2015 by smumcounty
“Grand Hotel on a train.” That’s how they referred to “Shanghai Express” when it was released in 1932 the same …
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Category: 1930s, Drama, Pre-Code
| Tags: Anna May Wong, Clive Brook, Emile Chautard, Eugene Pallette, Gustav von Seyfferitz, Hue Fei, Josef von Sternberg, Lawrence Grant, Lee Garmes, Louise Closser Hale, Marlene Dietrich, Paramount, Shanghai Express, Shanghai Lilly, Warner Oland
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May 24, 2015 by smumcounty
The 30’s are my go to decade for classic films. I watch more films from that decade than any other. …
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Category: 1930s, Drama, Pre-Code
| Tags: FDR, Franchot Tone, Gabriel Over the White House, Irving Thalberg, Karen Morley, Louis B. Mayer, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, MGM, The Great Depression, Walter Huston, Walter Wanger, William Randolph Hearst
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March 22, 2015 by smumcounty
I really like John Barrymore, that resonant vibrato, that great profile (the great profile), that thick shock of hair. But …
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Category: 1930s, Drama, Pre-Code
| Tags: Bebe Daniels, Clara Langsner, Counsellor at Law, Doris Kenyon, John Barrymore, Malka Kornstein, Marvin Kline, Mayo Methot, Onslow Stevens, The Great Profile, Thelma Todd
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September 21, 2014 by smumcounty
Between 1929 and 1939 more than 250,000 men left their homes and took to the road to ride the rails …
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Category: 1930s, Drama, Pre-Code
| Tags: Dorothy Coonan, Edwin Phillips, Frankie Darro, Hoboes, Pre-code, The Great Depression, Ward Bond, Wild Boys of the Road, William Wellman
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June 8, 2014 by smumcounty
Van Stanhope (Clark Gable) and his wife Linda (Myrna Loy) are, by all accounts, a deliriously happy couple. He’s the …
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Category: 1930s, Drama
| Tags: Clark Gable, George Barbier, James Stewart, Jean Harlow, Linda Stanhope, May Robson, MGM, Myrna Loy, Van Stanhope, Whitey Wilson, Wife vs. Secretary