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Thomas Alva Edison?
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I'm glad you liked it guys
!An Keith yo ought to see "Call Her Savage" with Clara Bow, on of the most famous & notorious Pre-Codes! Lucky guy and free of charge!
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Thanks Kimbo!!! I had forgotten the great "Arsenic and Old Lace", with all its black humor, its zany comedy, wonderful!!
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Maybe "Holiday Inn" or its remake, "White Christmas"?
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Since there has been so much interest in Pre-Codes Movies lately here at the Boards, especially from what I've read on the ?A Great Movie Alert? Thread, here there are some noteworthy Pre-Code movies I checked on the schedules of the following months, so set your VCR?s!:
February 2005
17th
6:00 am ?Gold Diggers of 1933? (1933) One of the most notorious of the Pre-Code musicals produced by Warner Brothers, with Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell et al.
2:30 pm ?Cleopatra? (1934) De Mille?s deliciously tongue in cheek film with Claudette Colbert, Warren William and Henry Wilcoxon.
21st
1:00 pm ?42nd Street? (1933) The original W.Bros. backstage musical with lots of excellent songs and numbers, plus Ruby Keeler, Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Una Merkel?
March 2005[/b]
4th
8:00 pm ?Scarface? (1932) One of the greatest gangster movies of all time with Paul Muni in the title role.
7th
8:00 pm ?The Sign of the Cross? (1932) De Mille?s Roman Spectacle with Claudette Colbert as Poppaea, Charles Laughton as Nero, Fredric March as a Roman General and Elissa Landi as a na?ve Christian. A must-see for Pre-Code lovers.
10:15 pm ?Cleopatra? If you didn?t catch it in February, here you have it again.
10th
7:15 am ?Smart Woman? (1931) An interesting early Gregory La Cava talkie, featuring the lovely Mary Astor as the wife of cheating Robert Ames, with E.E. Horton and John Holliday giving good support.
8:30 am ?The Age of Consent? (1932) I haven?t seen this one, but it must be good since Gregory La Cava directed it too; it deals with college coeds.
11:30 am ?Bed of Roses? (1933) This one is a must-see film about kept-woman Connie Bennett finding true love with clean-cut Joel McCrea. Per Kelton is great as Bennett?s pal.
12:45 pm ?The Half-Naked Truth? (1932) I?ve read very good comments on this Gregory La Cava film starring the ?Mexican spitfire? Lupe V?**** and fast-talking Lee Tracy.
14th
2:00 am ?Emperor Jones? (1933) the notorious Paul Robeson gives an excellent performance in the title role.
15th
6:00 am ?Miss Pinkerton? (1932) A fast-paced W.Bros. programmer starring Joan Blondell and George Brent.
7:15 am ?The Keyhole? (1933)- Never seen this film with Kay Francis and George Brent.
17th
6:00 am ?Not So Dumb? (1930) Listed on some books as one of Marion Davies best comedies, directed by King Vidor.
21st
6:00 am ?Guilty Hands? (1931) with Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis, Madge Evans.
7:15 am ?Night Court? (1932) As far as I've read in ?Pre-Code Hollywood?, a must-see MGM starring Anita Page, Walter Huston and Phillips Holmes.
9:00 am ?The Prize Fighter and the Lady? (1933) Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Walter Huston.
22nd
8:00 pm ?The Mind Reader? (1933) Everything with Warren William seems to be good.
23rd
6:00 am ?Dance Fools Dance? (1931) Fast-Life and parties in ?underwear? with Joan Crawford, Lester Vail, Clark Gable.
7:30 am ?Grand Hotel? (1932) The first all-star film with Garbo, Crawford, both Barrymores and Wally Beery.
30th
2:00 pm ?A Farewell to Arms? Sensitive W.W.I drama wonderfully acted by Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper and Adolphe Menjou. Based on the Hemingway novel.
April 2005
3rd
8:00 am ?King Kong? (1933) The most famous film dealing with the ?Beauty and the Beast? Theme, with Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot.
5th
6:00 am ?Three on a Match? (1932) with Bette Davis, Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak.
8:30 am ?Of Human Bondage? (1934) Bette Davis? most notorious early performance opposite Leslie Howard, based on the Maugham Novel.
8th
8:00 pm ?Duck Soup? (1933) Arguably, The Marx Brothers' best film, full of gags and crazy-to-the-hoot, with Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres and an early performance by Louis Calhern. It?s the only Paramount film of the Marx Bros. I?ve seen, so the following ones will be only listed, but there are all (IMHO) must-sees.
9:15 pm ?Horse Feathers? (1932) Marx. Bros., Margaret Dumont, Thelma Todd.
10:30 pm ?Monkey Business? (1931) Marx. Bros., Margaret Dumont, Thelma Todd.
12:00 am ?Animal Crackers? (1930) Marx Bros., Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont.
13th
12:00 pm ?The Front Page? (1931) The original version with Pat O?Brien and Adolphe Menjou, non-stop-fast-paced-dialogue.
3:45 pm ?Dinner at Eight? (1933) Wonderful all-cast film based on Edna Ferber?s play with Jean Harlow wondering if machinery will replace every profession and Marie Dressler reassuring her, she will never have to worry! With Wally Beery, the Barrymores, Billie Burke et al.
14th
6:15 am ?Blessed Event? (1932) Lee Tracy, Dick Powell, Ned Sparks.
7:45 am ?The Strange Love of Molly Louvain? (1932) This film is one I?ve been wanting to see for years! Ann Dvorak, Lee Tracy and Richard Cromwell.
9:00 am ?Clear All Wires? (1933) Another must-see on my list with Lee Tracy, Benita Hume (Ronald Colman?s wife) and Una Merkel.
19th
6:00 am ?Strange Interlude? (1932) Serious Vintage Flick based on Eugene O?Neill?s play about a woman who decides to have a son by another man, since insanity runs through her husband?s family blood. Starring Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Robert Young.
20th
8:00 am ?The Little Giant? (1933) Haven?t seen this Edward G. Robinson photoplay; with the wonderful Aline MacMahon and Helen Vinson.
25th
8:30 am ?Blondie of the Follies? (1932) A great comedy with Marion Davies and Jimmy Durante doing a fantastic send-up of Garbo and Barrymore in ?Grand Hotel?. Also in the cast Robert Montgomery and Billie Burke. A must-see.
8:00 pm ?She Done Him Wrong? (1933) The definitive Mae West film and her best one along with ?I?m No Angel?. A very young Cary Grant plays a Salvation Army Officer. Must-see.
27th
10:00 pm ?The Merry Widow? (1934) Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier?s last pairing under the direction of the masterful Ernst Lubitsch, a deliciously risqu? pre-code musical full of innuendo and charm. See Una Merkel play one of the most naughty and flirtatious queens ever!
28th
6:00 am ?A Free Soul? (1931) What more can you ask for? Norma Shearer scantily dressed and Gable as a gangster pushing her around, plus Lionel Barrymore giving an Oscar-winning performance as her father and Leslie Howard as her ?nice? suitor.
7:45 am ?Rasputin and the Empress? (1932) The only venture in which the three Barrymore brothers (Ethel, John and Lionel) starred together. A must see.
10:00 ?Grand Hotel? (1932)
29th
6:00 am ?The Girl Said No? (1930) An early talkie featuring the charming William Haines, Leila Hyams and the great Marie Dressler. A curio.
7: 45 am ?Politics? (1931) Marie Dressler, Polly Moran.
9:00 am ?Reducing? (1931) Marie Dressler, Polly Moran. Anita Page.
10:30 am ?Prosperity? (1932) Marie Dressler, Polly Moran. Anita Page.
I?ve been wanting to see these vintage comedies with Polly Moran and Marie Dressler for years!! Definite must-sees.
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That's his...and hers must have been "Pinkie"...
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Was it Pinky?
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Idiot's Delight?
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Now, the hilarious Laurel & Hardy "Big Business" comes to my mind too, a gem.
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Maybe it's the same thing that happens with "Constant Nymph" and Antoine de Saint-Exupery's heirs, hold the rights to the film, 'cos it was based upon that writer's sam titled novel...anyway, it's annoying.
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in Johnny come lately?
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...and I'd guess the other one, the british could be "The Lady Vanishes"? Not sure at all.
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I'd guess one of them is "Vertigo"?
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For me it's "Bringing Up Baby", with all the shenanigans & mischief involving Kate, Cary, both leopards and the small doggie. Second runner up: "My Man Godfrey"...I love when William Powell pushes around Gail Patrick (to the floor) and Carole Lombard (into the shower) or Mischa Auer's imitation of a monkey.
Mention apart deserves Charlie Chaplin, the master of physical comedy, since ever.
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Since a fellow poster has made an excellent work sharing his deep knowledge on the great Deanna Durbin in another thread, I wanted to contribute with a small "grain of sand", with this short, simple review I wrote upon buying this collection of DVD's, a great purchase, by the way. TCM I sincerely hope you can lease some of Deanna's films, it will be a success!
Here's the capsule-review:
First of all I have to admit that although I'm an ardent "classics" movie buff, I had never seen any of Deanna Durbin's movies, mainly because they were never shown on TV, at least in my country. Since I had read a lot about her persona, amazing voice, her status as Universal's prime superstar, etc., I was eager to watch her on film.
I got this wonderful package last year as a gift and sincerely, after watching the first of six feature films, I had to watch them all, as soon as possible, because I fell completely under the spell of Durbin's lovely screen persona: unaffected, sincere, pretty, down-to-earth, sweet, etc.
The films included in this collection are at least good and most of them very good. In spite of what I've read from other customers, I have to say that almost all the copies of the films are in very good condition, with the only exception perhaps, of "Three Smart Girls", which is somewhat grainy and not so sharp as the others, but then, it is the oldest of the lot (1936), and anyway is in pretty decent conditions.
"Three Smart Girls" is her best known film included here, because it was her breakthrough film, the one which made her a star, as a young girl-she is not even top billed here- who helps her elder sisters to try to bring their estranged parents together. There's some fine comedy, nice songs and expert supporting players.
In my humble opinion, the best films of the bunch are "First Love" (1939) and "It Started with Eve" (1941), both lovely Cinderella-type tales in which her natural talent and unaffected acting shine thoroughly.
There's also a "whodunit"-mystery film, "Lady On a Train" (1945), directed by her second husband, French director Charles-David, a fine and absorbing movie. On the other hand, "Can't Help Singing" is a glorious Technicolor musical with a score by the legendary Jerome Kern, with Deanna looking ravishingly beautiful in period costume, surrounded by "western" outdoors.
"Something in the Wind" (1947), maybe the weakest of the films which belong to this pack, but is a nice, engaging, mistaken-identity-comedy with Deanna as a discjockey.
In these films she acts with and is supported by some of the finest actors in Hollywood, such as Mischa Auer, Robert Cummings, Robert Stack, Charles Laughton, Donald O'Connor, Guy Kibbee, Akim Tamiroff, Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady, Ray Milland, Eugene Pallette, Kathleeen Howard, Ralph Bellamy and Edward Everett Horton.
Since I only saw Deanna on film for the first time last year, for me she was really Hollywood's best kept secret! Enjoy!
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Thanks Paty, thank you very much and by the way I hate "lecturing" too; when you love something, in this case "films", you just love it, there's no explanation to tastes or "aesthetic sensitivities", at least that is what I believe.
I love classic films since I was a child, my first lingering images from childhood, are Garbo committing suicide in "Anna Karenina" and Hepburn walking towards the scaffold in "Mary of Scotland".
As a kid and teenager I saw a lot of classics, I preferred to watch old movies than playing with friends or being with someone else, I was an absolute loner, so the films and stars of the Golden Era became sort of surrogate friends for me. I used to write down a lot of stuff too, search all the information I could, etc.
First I began collecting all kinds of books on classic films and stars, I've got more than 300 by now, I think. Then I started renting a lot of movies, and these last 10 years I've been buying and taping VHS and DVD's, in all I may have more than 600 films.
Movies & Music are my "first" love, and besides my wife, family & friends, it's what make me feel "alive".
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Hi, Welcome!
I'd also recommend you to watch his great performances in "The Big House", as a hard boiled convict, in "Grand Hotel", as a ruthless & lecherous businessman and his wonderful paring with Marie Dressler in the sentimental "Min and Bill". All this films are aired by TCM.
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Maybe Duncan Renaldo?
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All quiet on the western front?
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I found this written by a contributor, regarding "NIGHT FLIGHT", at www.us.imdb.com:
"The real curiosity is why it's never revived on Turner Classics which presumably owns both a print and the rights. I suspect that there may be a question as to the underlying rights to St. Expury's Vol de Nuit that might be responsible."
I checked on TCM's Library and this film is not listed.
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You are right, it seems that "Night Flight" an all star film with John and Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, etc., hasn't been aired on TCM. What has kept it out of circulation?, anyone knows?.
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You are right, because it is a Walter Wanger/United Artists production.
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Yeah Liz, you're right. Congrats! Welcome to the Boards and your turn.
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I saw Joan's "Across to Singapore", from 1928 (here at TCM) opposite Ramon Novarro and Ernest Torrence and I liked it very, very much...although it's more the Novarro film than Joan's. I even wrote a review at www.us.imdb.com
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