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| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:19 pm EDT 07/27/24 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:05 pm EDT 07/27/24 | |
| In reply to: and remember... - sc2 12:40 pm EDT 07/27/24 | |
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| If you like pre-code films, among my favorite films is "Love Me Tonight" starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald (probably among the greatest musicals EVER with a score by Rodgers and Hart and innovative direction by Rouben Mamoulian). Some really fun ones are "Night Nurse" with Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, and Clark Gable as a sexy, but villainous chauffeur in a lurid tale of nurses trying to save children under their care who are in danger, and "Baby Face" with Stanwyck again, as a woman fleeing life from where she's been pimped out by her own father, coming to NY where she basically sleeps her way to the top of a company in an office building. There's also "Female" with Ruth Chatterton as the head of an auto factory who has boy toys/underlings, in essence, servicing her as she invites them to swim at her villa as she blows off steam from all the demands of running her company. There's Cecil B. DeMile's "Madam Satan" with Lillian Roth in a supporting role, but I only really recommend the last half hour or so (first part is a bore), but that finale takes place on a zeppelin like the Hindenberg with people in a costume party with bizarre musical numbers and ending with people bailing out of it when there's a need to. It's a hoot. There are more, but those are off the top of my head. "Love Me Tonight" was censored on its re-release years later (still missing some scenes) and those other films would not be made after 1934 -- so they are a lot of fun. | |
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