Tag Archives: 1930s

Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. Read More »

Homespun vaudeville monologist Chic Sale repeats his “old geezer” characterization in Warner Bros.’ Stranger in Town. Read More »

Broadway’s most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. Read More »

Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business Read More »

The two partners of a ladies’ garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership Read More »

A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). Read More »

In this extremely loose adaptation of Melville’s classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter Read More »

Three manicurists hope to become entertainers through the auspices of their wisecracking agent (Fred Allen). Read More »

Sign painters Joe and Lucky travel around New England looking for jobs. After Joe uses Madge as a model, she hides in their wagon. Read More »

A band of Gypsies are camped outside the walls of Count Arnheim’s palace. Read More »

In this adaptation from Kawabata, a young student becomes friends with a brother Read More »

Eastern millionaire’s son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. Read More »

This British musical showcase presents a number of cockney variety acts as it tells the story Read More »

Based on a story by Vicki Baum, the Sigmund Romberg-Oscar Hammerstein operetta The Night is Young is set in Vienna during the Franz Josef era. Read More »

A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. Read More »