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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Pre-Code Hollywood</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/pre-code-hollywood/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>THE LETTER (1929) Review: Jeanne Eagels d: Jean de Limur</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:28:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE LETTER (1929) Direction: Jean de Limur Cast: Jeanne Eagels, O.P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne, Lady Tsen Mei, Tamaki Yoshiwara Screenplay: Garrett Fort; from W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 play, itself based on a Maugham story found in the 1924 collection The Casuarina Tree Oscar Movies, Pre-Code Movies Jeanne Eagels, Herbert Marshall, The Letter Having watched William Wyler's masterful 1940 film adaptation of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ann Dvorak Pt.4: Warner Bros. Co-Stars, THREE ON A MATCH</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-three-on-match-pre-code-hollywood/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-three-on-match-pre-code-hollywood/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:42:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27556</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ann Dvorak, Paul Muni, Dr. Socrates Ann Dvorak Pt.3: SCARFACE, Warner Bros. Leading Lady, But Never a Star Ann Dvorak played opposite most big names at Warner Bros. in the 1930s. In addition to the aforementioned Joan Blondell and Bette Davis, there were Warren William, Paul Muni, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., James Cagney, Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, and Richard Barthelmess, among others. How did she get [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-three-on-match-pre-code-hollywood/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE BARKER Review &#8211; Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/barker-george-fitzmaurice-milton-sills/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/barker-george-fitzmaurice-milton-sills/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:24:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/09/07/review-1928-part-talkie-the-barker/</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE BARKER (1928) Direction: George Fitzmaurice Cast: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sylvia Ashton, George Cooper Screenplay: Benjamin Glazer; dialogue by Joseph Jackson; titles by Herman J. Mankiewicz, from Kenyon Nicholson's 1927 play Oscar Movies, Pre-Code Movies Dorothy Mackaill, Milton Sills, The Barker Directed by George Fitzmaurice, by then already a film veteran, The Barker is one of those strange hybrids [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/barker-george-fitzmaurice-milton-sills/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SORRELL AND SON Review &#8211; H. B. Warner, Nils Asther, Anna Q. Nilsson d: Herbert Brenon</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/sorrell-and-son-herbert-brenon-h-b-warner/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/sorrell-and-son-herbert-brenon-h-b-warner/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:45:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/sorrell-and-son-herbert-brenon-h-b-warner/</guid> <description><![CDATA[SORRELL AND SON (1927) Direction: Herbert Brenon Cast: H. B. Warner, Nils Asther, Anna Q. Nilsson, Alice Joyce, Carmel Myers, Mary Nolan, Mickey McBan, Louis Wolheim, Norman Trevor, Lionel Belmore Screenplay: Elizabeth Meehan; from Warwick Deeping's novel Oscar Movies Recommended H. B. Warner, Alice Joyce, Sorrell and Son A skilled melodrama about paternal devotion in the face of both personal and social adversity, Sorrell and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/sorrell-and-son-herbert-brenon-h-b-warner/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>IN OLD ARIZONA Review d: Irving Cummings, Raoul Walsh</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/in-old-arizona-irving-cummings-raoul-walsh/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/in-old-arizona-irving-cummings-raoul-walsh/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/in-old-arizona-irving-cummings-raoul-walsh/</guid> <description><![CDATA[IN OLD ARIZONA (1928) Direction: Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings Cast: Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess Screenplay: Tom Barry; from O. Henry's (aka William Sidney Porter) 1907 short story &#34;The Caballero's Way&#34; Oscar Movies, Pre-Code Movies Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona TIRED IN THE SADDLE What makes Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh's In Old Arizona (barely) watchable decades after its highly successful initial release [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/in-old-arizona-irving-cummings-raoul-walsh/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE SONG OF SONGS &#8211; Marlene Dietrich d: Rouben Mamoulian</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-song-of-songs-marlene-dietrich-rouben-mamoulian/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-song-of-songs-marlene-dietrich-rouben-mamoulian/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:16:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24834</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE SONG OF SONGS (1933) Direction: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill, Alison Skipworth, Hardie Albright, Helen Freeman Screenplay: Samuel Hoffenstein, Leo Birinsky; from Hermann Sudermann's novel and Edward Sheldon's play Recommended In her first American film without the guidance of Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich was definitely up to the acting challenge of Rouben Mamoulian's The Song of Songs. Not only [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-song-of-songs-marlene-dietrich-rouben-mamoulian/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Irving Thalberg Biography: Mark Vieira&#039;s Book Signing</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/irving-thalberg-biography-mark-vieira-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/irving-thalberg-biography-mark-vieira-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:21:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18740</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;I’m looking forward to being 'onstage' Sunday at the Egyptian. I love talking about Irving, Norma, and Joan.&#34; That's author Mark A. Vieira, commenting on Allan Ellenberger's post about his book signing at Larry Edmund's Bookshop and the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Mark's latest book, Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince, which has just been published by the University of California Press, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/irving-thalberg-biography-mark-vieira-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A LADY TO LOVE &#8211; Edward G. Robinson, Vilma Banky</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/a-lady-to-love-vilma-banky-edward-g-robinson/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/a-lady-to-love-vilma-banky-edward-g-robinson/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:17:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=14661</guid> <description><![CDATA[A Lady to Love (1930) Direction: Victor Sjöström Screenplay: Sidney Howard; based on his play They Knew What They Wanted Cast: Vilma Banky, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Ames, Richard Carle, Lloyd Ingraham, Anderson Lawler &#160; Edward G. Robinson, Robert Ames, Vilma Banky in A Lady to Love &#160; Edward G. Robinson was only 37 years old when he gave this hammy, scene-stealing, over-the-top performance as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/a-lady-to-love-vilma-banky-edward-g-robinson/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins: Allan Ellenberger Interview I</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger-interview-i/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger-interview-i/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:56:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16288</guid> <description><![CDATA[Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins in All of Me Miriam Hopkins: Allan Ellenberger Interview Intro First of all, why Miriam Hopkins? The films she made with Bette Davis &#8212; The Old Maid (1939) and Old Acquaintance (1943) &#8212; first attracted me to Miriam Hopkins. Also, the stories of their purported feud and Davis’ virulent comments that she spouted forth during her last days piqued my interest. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger-interview-i/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Barbara Stanwyck on Turner Classic Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/barbara-stanwyck-on-turner-classic-movies/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/barbara-stanwyck-on-turner-classic-movies/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:29:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=3178</guid> <description><![CDATA[Summer Under the Stars Barbara Stanwyck &#160; Tuesday, August 19, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: My understanding is that there have been precious few transformations more radical than that of Ruby Stevens of Brooklyn into Barbara Stanwyck of Hollywood &#8212; the highest-paid woman in the United States in 1944. In my view, Barbara Stanwyck is one of the greatest film actresses ever; a performer nearly [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/barbara-stanwyck-on-turner-classic-movies/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mick LaSalle Discusses Miriam Hopkins, Norma Shearer, Barbara Stanwyck, and Ruth Chatterton</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/lasalle-hopkins-shearer-stanwyck-chatterton/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/lasalle-hopkins-shearer-stanwyck-chatterton/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:35:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=3047</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mick LaSalle, the author of Complicated Women and Dangerous Men, on Pre-Code actresses Norma Shearer, Miriam Hopkins, Ruth Chatterton, and Barbara Stanwyck. The clip is described as &#34;raw interview footage&#34; for the 2003 Turner Classic Movies documentary Complicated Women. Clip posted by LaSalle himself as Precodehollywood. &#160; &#160; William Holden Homage Clip Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING Set Recreated by Channel 4 SHOESHINE Clip AN ANGEL [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/lasalle-hopkins-shearer-stanwyck-chatterton/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE MISLEADING LADY &#8211; Claudette Colbert, Edmund Lowe</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-misleading-lady-claudette-colbert/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-misleading-lady-claudette-colbert/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:00:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2721</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Misleading Lady (1932) Direction: Stuart Walker. Screenplay: Adelaide Heilbron and Caroline Francke; from Charles W. Goddard and Paul Dickey's play. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Edmund Lowe, Stuart Erwin, Robert Strange, George Meeker, Selena Royle, Curtis Cooksey, William Gargan, Nina Walker &#160; While hardly a cinematic masterpiece, Paramount's 1932 romantic comedy The Misleading Lady (filmed at New York's Astoria studios) is an amusing romp that makes [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-misleading-lady-claudette-colbert/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>RAIN &#8211; Joan Crawford, Walter Huston</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/rain-joan-crawford-walter-huston/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/rain-joan-crawford-walter-huston/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 21:53:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2689</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rain (1932) Direction: Lewis Milestone. Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson; from John Colton and Clemence Randolph's play, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's short story "Miss Thompson." Cast: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Matt Moore, Walter Catlett &#160; &#160; The first thing you notice in the credits of the 1932 United Artists version of Rain is that Joan Crawford's name is above the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/rain-joan-crawford-walter-huston/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>WAY OUT WEST &#8211; William Haines</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/way-out-west-william-haines-fred-niblo/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/way-out-west-william-haines-fred-niblo/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 20:57:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2667</guid> <description><![CDATA[Way Out West (1930) Direction: Fred Niblo. Screenplay: Byron Morgan and Alfred Block; dialogue by Alfred Block, Joe Farnham, Ralph Spence, and Henry Sharp. Cast: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Cliff Edwards, Polly Moran, Francis X. Bushman Jr. (aka Ralph Bushman), Charles Middleton, Vera Marsh &#160; When a crooked carnival barker cheats a gang of tough cowboys in a roulette game, he is forced to work [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/way-out-west-william-haines-fred-niblo/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE GREAT GABBO &#8211; Erich von Stroheim, Betty Compson</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-great-gabbo-erich-von-stroheim-cruze/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-great-gabbo-erich-von-stroheim-cruze/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:36:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2648</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Great Gabbo (1929) Direction: James Cruze. Screenplay: Story by Ben Hecht; Continuity and Dialogue by Hugh Herbert. Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Donald Douglas, Marjorie Kane &#160; The Great Gabbo is one terrific early talkie. Sure, the film is old and creaky, while its technical aspects are cheap and primitive. But the story, the music, and the performances always keep me hooked. Directed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-great-gabbo-erich-von-stroheim-cruze/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DOWNSTAIRS &#8211; John Gilbert</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/downstairs-john-gilbert-virginia-bruce/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/downstairs-john-gilbert-virginia-bruce/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2577</guid> <description><![CDATA[Downstairs (1932) Direction: Monta Bell. Screenplay: Lenore Coffee and Melville Baker; from a story by John Gilbert. Cast: John Gilbert, Virginia Bruce, Paul Lukas, Olga Baclanova, Reginald Owen, Hedda Hopper, Bodil Rosing, Otto Hoffman, Karen Morley &#160; &#160; Monta Bell's seldom-seen drama Downstairs proves not only what a great actor John Gilbert was, but, quite contrary to legend, how competent his voice sounded. All seems [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/downstairs-john-gilbert-virginia-bruce/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>GOLDEN DAWN &#8211; Vivienne Segal</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/golden-dawn-by-ray-enright/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/golden-dawn-by-ray-enright/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:51:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2571</guid> <description><![CDATA[Golden Dawn (1930) Direction: Ray Enright. Screenplay: Walter Anthony; from Otto A. Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II's operetta. Cast: Walter Woolf, Vivienne Segal, Noah Beery, Alice Gentle, Dick Henderson, Lupino Lane, Edward Martindel, Marion Byron, Nina Quartero, Sojin, Otto Matieson, Julanne Johnston &#160; Ray Enright's early musical Golden Dawn should be filed under the &#34;What Were They Thinking&#34; department. Warner Bros. certainly wasn't expecting commercial [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/golden-dawn-by-ray-enright/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BLONDE VENUS &#8211; Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant d: Josef von Sternberg</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/blonde-venus-marlene-dietrich-josef-von-sternberg/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/blonde-venus-marlene-dietrich-josef-von-sternberg/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:00:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2561</guid> <description><![CDATA[Blonde Venus (1932) Direction: Josef von Sternberg. Screenplay: Jules Furthman and S. K. Lauren. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Gene Morgan, Rita La Roy, Sidney Toler, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Hattie McDaniel &#160; Blonde Venus is my favorite of the Marlene Dietrich-Josef von Sternberg collaborations. This melodrama simply has it all. The film begins with the ever-dull and wooden Herbert Marshall as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/blonde-venus-marlene-dietrich-josef-von-sternberg/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>APPLAUSE &#8211; Helen Morgan &#8211; d: Rouben Mamoulian</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/applause-rouben-mamoulian-helen-morgan/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/applause-rouben-mamoulian-helen-morgan/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:11:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2538</guid> <description><![CDATA[Applause (1929) Direction: Rouben Mamoulian. Screenplay: Garrett Fort; from Beth Brown's novel. Cast: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron, Henry Wadsworth, Roy Hargrave &#160; &#160; Rouben Mamoulian was one of the most talented directors of all time. His early musical Applause proves it. Applause stars stage legend Helen Morgan (above) as Kitty Darling, a chubby burlesque dancer who can do a high-kick [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/applause-rouben-mamoulian-helen-morgan/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Forbidden Hollywood: Pre-Code Movies on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/forbidden-hollywood-pre-code-movies-on-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/forbidden-hollywood-pre-code-movies-on-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:39:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/forbidden-hollywood-pre-code-movies-on-tcm/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The new documentary Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood and five Pre-Code films will be shown on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, March 3 (more details below). The five racy Pre-Coders are: The Divorcee (1930), A Free Soul (1931), Night Nurse (right, 1931), Three on a Match (1932), and Female (1933). Those are films made before religious zealots, abetted by frightened [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/forbidden-hollywood-pre-code-movies-on-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gloria Swanson in THE TRESPASSER: Academy Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/gloria-swanson-the-trespasser/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/gloria-swanson-the-trespasser/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:55:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/gloria-swanson-the-trespasser/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mother love and melodrama in The Trespasser: Purnell Pratt, Gloria Swanson, and Robert Ames, who would die two years after this film was made. &#160; Academy film scholar Cari Beauchamp will talk about the convoluted personal and professional relationship between actress Gloria Swanson and producer Joseph P. Kennedy (right) in a program featuring highlights from her upcoming book, Joseph P. Kennedy Presents, on Thursday, November [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/gloria-swanson-the-trespasser/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rouben Mamoulian Retrospective at Film Forum</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/rouben-mamoulian-film-forum/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/rouben-mamoulian-film-forum/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:06:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/rouben-mamoulian-film-forum/</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;Mamoulian,&#34; a complete retrospective of Hollywood director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987), one of cinema's greatest stylists and innovators, will run at the Film Forum from Friday, September 7 through Tuesday, September 18. As per the Film Forum's press release, Mamoulian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, to an Armenian family. He worked at the Moscow Art Theater while attending university, and, following a chance meeting with industrialist/philanthropist [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/rouben-mamoulian-film-forum/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Fox Before the Code at Film Forum</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fox-before-the-code-at-new-york-citys-film-forum/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fox-before-the-code-at-new-york-citys-film-forum/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:33:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/10/13/fox-before-the-code-at-new-york-citys-film-forum/</guid> <description><![CDATA[New York City's Film Forum, the institution that about a year ago presented the Paramount Before the Code film series, will have a Fox Before the Code (and Fox before it became 20th Century-Fox) series between Dec. 1-21. The Pre-Code era went from about 1928, or the beginning of talking pictures, to mid-1934, before the Production Code &#8212; a series of moralistic rules and regulations [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fox-before-the-code-at-new-york-citys-film-forum/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rudy Vallee, THE VAGABOND LOVER on Turner Classic Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/rudy-vallee-the-vagabond-lover-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/rudy-vallee-the-vagabond-lover-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:48:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/10/09/early-talkies-on-turner-classic-movies/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Turner Classic Movies Alert: For those living in the U.S., TCM will be showing three early talkies: The musical The Vagabond Lover, starring the Elvis Presley of the late 1920s &#8212; in terms of popularity, that is &#8212; Rudy Vallee (if Elvis suffered from paralysis, he would have sung the way Vallee did). Also in the cast, future Academy Award-winning box-office superstar Marie Dressler, and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/rudy-vallee-the-vagabond-lover-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>San Sebastián 2006: Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/ernst-lubitsch-retrospective-at-san-sebastian/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/ernst-lubitsch-retrospective-at-san-sebastian/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:42:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/09/26/ernst-lubitsch-retrospective-at-san-sebastin/</guid> <description><![CDATA[One of the highlights of this year's San Sebastián International Film Festival is a mouth-wateringly thorough Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective. Besides the obligatory titles, such as the witty 1939 comedy of bright lights and Communism, Ninotchka, and the delightful 1934 version of The Merry Widow, the retrospective is also showcasing a large number of Lubitsch rarities (including a few fragments of mostly lost films), ranging from [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/ernst-lubitsch-retrospective-at-san-sebastian/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>JEWEL ROBBERY &#8211; William Powell, Kay Francis</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/jewel-robbery-william-dieterle/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/jewel-robbery-william-dieterle/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:31:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Marcus Tucker</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/09/25/pre-code-film-series-jewel-robbery-1932/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jewel Robbery (1932) Direction: William Dieterle Screenplay: Erwin C. Gelsey, from Ladislas Fodor's 1931 play Ekszerrablás a Váci-uccában and Bertram Bloch's English-language adaptation, Jewel Robbery Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Hardie Albright, Alan Mowbray &#160; Film scholars consider the 1932 comedy Trouble in Paradise to be the best work of actress Kay Francis. I disagree. Francis was good in everything she did &#8212; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/jewel-robbery-william-dieterle/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ONE HYSTERICAL NIGHT d: William James Craft</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/one-hysterical-night-reginald-denny/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/one-hysterical-night-reginald-denny/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:19:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/09/05/review-rare-early-talkie-one-hysterical-night/</guid> <description><![CDATA[One Hysterical Night (1929) Direction: William James Craft. Screenplay: Earle Snell; dialogue by Reginald Denny. Cast: Reginald Denny, Nora Lane, E.J. Ratcliffe, Fritz Feld, Slim Summerville, Joyzelle, Jules Cowles, Walter Brennan, Margaret Campbell, Rolfe Sedan &#160; MAD DULL BALLROOM If nothing else, the silly (and mistitled) One Hysterical Night &#8212; Reginald Denny's first all-talking vehicle &#8212; serves as a good explanation as to why Denny, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/one-hysterical-night-reginald-denny/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>STRANGE INTERLUDE by Robert Z. Leonard</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/strange-interlude-norma-shearer-clark-gable/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/strange-interlude-norma-shearer-clark-gable/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:19:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Marcus Tucker</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/08/27/pre-code-series-strange-interlude/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Strange Interlude (1932) Direction: Robert Z. Leonard. Screenplay: Bess Meredyth and C. Gardner Sullivan, from Eugene O'Neill's play. Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan, May Robson, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Alden, Tad Alexander &#160; LOVE IS A MUCH-FRUSTRATING THING By Marcus Tucker of Shadow Waltz With the advent of new technology comes experimentation. When sound arrived in Hollywood, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/strange-interlude-norma-shearer-clark-gable/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Paramount Vs. Theodore Dreiser</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/paramount-vs-theodore-dreiser/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/paramount-vs-theodore-dreiser/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:55:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/08/25/paramount-vs-theodore-dreiser/</guid> <description><![CDATA["This region is stuffed with hard-boiled savage climbers, the lowest grade of political grafters, quacks not calculable as to number or variety &#8230; loafers, prostitutes, murderers and perverts. In the bland sunshine here they multiply like germs in the canal zone." That's author Theodore Dreiser referring not to Washington, D.C., or any other world capital, but to Hollywood in the early 1930s. Dreiser was then [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/paramount-vs-theodore-dreiser/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CHICAGO (1927) &#8211; Notes</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/chicago-1927-trivia/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/chicago-1927-trivia/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:39:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/chicago-1927-trivia/</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#169; A.M.P.A.S. &#160; Background: Maurine Dallas Watkins' 1926 play Chicago was based on real-life murders committed by housewife Beulah Sheriff Annan and cabaret singer Belva Gaertner. In April 1924, Annan shot her lover in her own apartment. Some reports claim that while the man lay dying, Annan kept busy sipping cocktails and listening to a foxtrot recording on her victrola. The previous month, Gaertner had [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/chicago-1927-trivia/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BACHELOR APARTMENT Review &#8211; Lowell Sherman, Irene Dunne, Mae Murray d: Lowell Sherman</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/bachelor-apartment-lowell-sherman-irene-dunne/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/bachelor-apartment-lowell-sherman-irene-dunne/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:28:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/06/07/pre-code-series-bachelor-apartment-1931/</guid> <description><![CDATA[BACHELOR APARTMENT (1931) Direction: Lowell Sherman. Screenplay: Story by John Howard Lawson; adaptation and dialogue by J. Walter Ruben. Cast: Lowell Sherman, Irene Dunne, Mae Murray, Ivan Lebedeff, Norman Kerry GIRLS GONE MILD Womanizing businessman Wayne Carter is hardly a looker, but he's got them dollar bills. Loads of them. The only woman in New York City left unimpressed by his millions is, of all [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/bachelor-apartment-lowell-sherman-irene-dunne/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Mae West, Cecil B. DeMille DVD Sets</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/dietrich-lombard-west-demille/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/dietrich-lombard-west-demille/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:50:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=344</guid> <description><![CDATA[Universal (owner of the Paramount films of the studio era) has announced the release of the following box sets: On April 4, three &#34;Glamour Collection&#34; sets: The Carole Lombard Glamour Collection: Man of the World (1931), We're Not Dressing (1934), Hands Across the Table (1935), The Princess Comes Across (1936), Love Before Breakfast (1936), and True Confession (1937). The Mae West Glamour Collection: Night After [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/dietrich-lombard-west-demille/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cinecon 2005</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cinecon-2005/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cinecon-2005/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2005 08:25:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2005/09/02/cinecon-2005/</guid> <description><![CDATA[While the Biennale is going at full (or at least semi-full) throttle in security-tight Venice, Los Angeles is currently offering its own lesser-known but surely no less fascinating &#8212; and considerably more relaxed &#8212; film festival. As per the description found on its website, Cinecon is a film convention-cum-festival where &#34;cinephiles from across the nation and around the world come to . . . over [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cinecon-2005/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pre-Code Paramount at Film Forum</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/pre-code-paramount-at-film-forum/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/pre-code-paramount-at-film-forum/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2005 23:48:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4</guid> <description><![CDATA[Risque pre-Code Paramount films, including The Blue Angel, White Woman, and Trouble in Paradise, will be screened at Film Forum. Featured are Fredric March, Nancy Carroll, Jeanette MacDonald, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, and Sylvia Sidney.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/pre-code-paramount-at-film-forum/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SORRELL AND SON Los Angeles Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/sorrell-and-son-1927-rare-los-angeles-screening/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/sorrell-and-son-1927-rare-los-angeles-screening/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2005 09:54:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=3</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sorell and Son, directed by Herbert Brenon and starring H. B. Warner, Nils Asther, Anna Q. Nilsson, Alice Joyce, Mickey McBan, and Carmel Myers, will be screened in Los Angeles as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Lost and Found series.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/sorrell-and-son-1927-rare-los-angeles-screening/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Barbara Stanwyck/BABY FACE: London Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/baby-face-at-london-film-festival/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/baby-face-at-london-film-festival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:12:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/baby-face-at-london-film-festival/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Barbara Stanwyck, John Wayne, Baby Face Long thought lost, the original cut of the 1933 Barbara Stanwyck movie Baby Face will be screened at the London Film Festival in November. The racy Warner Bros. production was initially released in all its risque glory, but had to be withdrawn shortly thereafter because of vociferous protests against its &#34;immorality&#34;: a woman (Stanwyck) uses her body, her sensuality, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/baby-face-at-london-film-festival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
