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Category Archives: 1930s

The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
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January 16, 2014 by smumcounty

Stockbroker Gerald Parker (Guy Usher) is on the phone with Bertrand Hemingway (Clarence Wilson), the director of the New York …
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Category: 1930s, Comedy, Mystery, Pre-Code | Tags: Clarence Wilson, Donald Cook, Edna May Oliver, Guy Usher, Hidegarde Withers, James Gleason, Lydia Pinkham, Mae Clark, Mystery, Oscar Piper, Penguin Pool Murder, RKO, Robert Armstrong, Rochelle Hudson, Stuart Palmer
Love Me Tonight (1932)
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October 13, 2013 by smumcounty

“Love Me Tonight” (1932) begins with scenes of the waking of Paris one early sunny morning. Eager to establish its …
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Category: 1930s, Musicals, Pre-Code | Tags: C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Butterworth, Charlie Ruggles, Jeanette MacDonald, Love Me Tonight, Maurice Chevalier, Myrna Loy, Robert Grieg, Robert Mamoulian, Rodgers and Hart
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
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June 20, 2013 by smumcounty

They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? Is he in …
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Category: 1930s, Action, Drama | Tags: Alexander Korda, French Revolution, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Gold Diggers of 1933
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June 2, 2013 by smumcounty

“Gold Diggers of 1933” begins with a lively musical number not unlike those of other musicals of the 1930’s. Those …
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Category: 1930s, Musicals | Tags: Aline MacMahon, Busby Berkeley, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Gold Diggers of 1933, Great Depression, Guy Kibbee, Joan Blondell, Ned Sparks, Pre-Code Hollywood, Ruby Keeler, Warren William

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