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Classic 1930s movie reviews, movie articles and information. Movie reviews from classic movies from 1930 to 1939, the Golden Age of Hollywood.
From Johann Strauss to George Gershwin: Music! Music! Music!
The focus of Rhapsody in Blue (1945) is the incredible story and classic music of George Gershwin, whose short life ended at age 39, just a few years before this film was made. The bio-drama from Warner Brothers. stars Robert…
Read more →The Toast of New York (1937)
Guest blogger Jacqueline Lynch writes: “The Toast of New York” (1937) turns character actor Edward Arnold into a romantic lead. This alone makes this uneven movie a delight. Based on the true life and financial skullduggery of 19th-century entrepreneur James…
Read more →Design for Living (1933): Movie review
In Design for Living, Tom Chambers (Fredric March) and George Curtis (Gary Cooper) are a couple of artistic best friends. Tom is a playwright and George is a painter. They may not be rich, but they’re happy living together in…
Read more →Dancing Lady (1933): A Classic Movie Review
The same year Warner Brothers released 42nd Street (1933), MGM came out with Dancing Lady, a backstage musical complete with a Busby Berkeley style finale. If you had to compare the two, the win would certainly go to 42nd Street,…
Read more →Waterloo Bridge (1931)
When 1910s London chorus girl Myra Deauville (Mae Clarke) finds herself out of work, she assumes she’ll be able to find herself a new show soon enough. Two years later and still jobless, she has no choice but to become…
Read more →Blondie: A Look Back At The Actors of the Film Series
Let’s go back to the beginning. The first real Blondie movie was made in 1938. (The name “Blondie” appears in various forms from Blondie of the Follies in 1932 to Bye Bye Blondie in 2010, neither of which had anything to do with…
Read more →A Star Is Born (1937)
A Star Is Born (1937)` Before inventions like reality TV and YouTube, Hollywood hopefuls would have to pack up and actually move to Hollywood to have any chance at stardom. With the aid and well wishes from her grandmother, Esther Victoria…
Read more →Serenade Me, Mr. Powell: 20 Million Sweethearts (1943)
Ginger Rogers is a triple threat. She can sing, act and dance. She even won an Oscar for her 1941 performance in Kitty Foyle. I taped several of her films that I haven’t seen (I’m trying to see all of…
Read more →Waterloo Bridge (1931): Mae Clarke And Kent Douglass Movie Review
Waterloo Bridge Director: James Whale USA 1931 81 minutes (Available on the Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1) Unfortunately, this first filmed version of Waterloo Bridge has for a long time stood in the shadows of Mervyn LeRoy‘s more clean-cut 1940…
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