“When you’re dead you get a hunk of Earth. When you’re alive you wanna hang on to your hunk of blue. That’s all I’ve got in the world. That’s all anybody’s got, is that hunk of blue.” When Bill (Spencer Tracy) and Trina (Loretta Young) meet in a city park, it’s clear to him that… Read More Man’s Castle (1933)
Agnes “Aggie” Appleby (Wynne Gibson) is a hard luck gal. She’s about to be evicted from her apartment, and on top of that, her boyfriend Red (William Gargan) is being arrested for assaulting two policemen. Aggie makes do by sneaking into the apartment building where her friend Sibby (Zasu Pitts) works as a maid. She… Read More Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933)
Young and lovely June Dale (Mary Brian) is being pursued by the wealthy but far-too-pushy Kenneth Van Dusen (Guy Kibbee). When June’s friend Kay (Glenda Farrell) walks in and puts a stop to Kenneth’s attempts to woo June, he leaves them at their fancy Palm Beach hotel, sticking them with the bill. Luckily for Kay… Read More Girl Missing (1933)
Steve (Pat O’Brien) is in love with Elaine (Myrna Loy)… but she’s left him and married someone she thinks is a better suitor. Mary (Irene Dunne), likewise, is in love with a man named Aubrey (Lester Vail)… but he’s left her behind for someone else. Heartbroken Steve and Mary become friends, finding comfort in their… Read More Consolation Marriage (1931)
Millie Blake (Helen Twelvetrees) is a popular young girl who, soon after her father’s death, accepts a proposal from the wealthy Jack Maitland (James Hall) and the two decide to elope. They move to New York to begin their lives together. Flash forward a few years and Millie has become a mother to a baby… Read More Millie (1931)
Progress has been pretty slow on the Barbara Stanwyck Filmography Project, and part of the problem has been my seeming inability to find Stanwyck’s films that I had already seen before the project began, to re-watch them for review. I’ve been trying to remedy this problem, so I hopped at the chance to re-watch Ladies… Read More Second looks: Ladies They Talk About (1933)
Adell Hamilton (Constance Bennett), the youngest daughter of the Hamilton family, finds herself attracted to a lawyer named David Norton (Neil Hamilton). But their romance is no walk in the park. David is eventually assigned as the prosecutor in a murder case of which Adell has become a suspect, though her siblings were actually the… Read More Two Against the World (1932)
