Tag Archives: Jean Harlow

Screening Report: Pre-Code Fun at Film Forum’s 1933 Festival

Posted on February 11, 2013 by willmckinley

This weekend, Film Forum kicked off 1933: Hollywood’s Naughtiest, Bawdiest Year – a monthlong, 66-film retrospective of my favorite year in movie history. I didn’t say it was the best year in movie history, of course. That honor, at least during … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Forum, Pre-Code Film, Screening Report | Tagged 1933, Busby Berkeley, Carlotta Vance, DINNER AT EIGHT, early Talkies, EMPLOYEES' ENTRANCE, Film Forum, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Cukor, Ginger Rogers, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933, Great Depression, Jean Harlow, LITTLE CAESAR, Marie Dressler, Pre-Code Film, Roy Del Ruth, Scrappy's Party, SITTING PRETTY, THE LITTLE GIANT, Warren William | 11 Comments

She Works Hard For the Money: The Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection on DVD from TCM

Posted on December 10, 2012 by willmckinley

Sex sells, the old saying goes. It also employs, or at least it did in movies made before enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code began in 1934. In the The Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection, a five-film DVD set from … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film, TCM | Tagged ARIZONA, Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection, Forbidden Hollywood, Great Depresson, Hays Office, Jean Harlow, Jo Swerling, John Wayne, Joseph Breen, Laura La Plante, Lionel Barrymore, Mae Clarke, Marie Prevost, Mayo Methot, Motion Picture Production Code, Pat O’Brien, Pre-Code Film, Regis Toomey, Robert Riskin, SHOPWORN, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, TEN CENTS A DANCE, THREE WISE GIRLS, VIRTUE, Will Hays | 19 Comments

Tag Archives: Jean Harlow

Screening Report: Pre-Code Fun at Film Forum’s 1933 Festival

She Works Hard For the Money: The Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection on DVD from TCM

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