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GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN (1931) from Warner Archive: One Kiss and You Die!
The year is 1931. Three undressed women catfight over the lover they share – wrestling in his bed, tearing at each other’s skimpy negligees. One of them is Louise Brooks, pansexual star of some of the sultriest silent films ever … Continue reading →
Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film, Warner Archive Collection
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Tagged "Raymond Griffith", 1931, A STAR IS BORN, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy House, Charles Winniger, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL, Eleanor Gutchrlein, Frank Fay, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, G.W. Pabst, GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN, Hays Code, Joan Blondell, Joseph Jackson, Karla Gutchrlein, Laura La Plante, Louise Brooks, Margaret Livingston, Michael Curtiz, Motion Picture Production Code, Norman Maine, PANDORA’S BOX, Pre-Code Film, Safe in Hell, Sisters G, The Code, The Devil Was Sick, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Bros, Yola d’Avril
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Pre-Code Classics Shine Again in “Forbidden Hollywood” Volumes 4 and 5 from Warner Archive
“For me, the real ‘Classic Era’ in Hollywood was the mid-1930s until about 1959,” host Robert Osborne said at the third annual TCM Classic Film Festival in April. Coincidentally, those years also bookend the period during which the Motion Picture … Continue reading →
Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film
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Tagged Barbara Stanwyck, Classic film, First National PIctures, FOOTLIGHT PARADE, Forbidden Hollywood Volume 4, Forbidden Hollywood Volume 5, HARD TO HANDLE, James Cagney, JEWEL ROBBERY, Joan Blondell, Joseph Breen, Kay Francis, LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT, LAWYER MAN, Loretta Young, MAN WANTED, MISS PINKERTON, Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Pre-Code Film, Robert Osborne, TCM, The Breen Office, The Code, The Hays Office, THE MIND READER, The Motion Picture Production Code, THEY CALL IT SIN, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Bros, Warren William, Will H. Hays, Will Hays, William Powell
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