Bringing Up Baby, 1938, RKO Radio Pictures. Starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant. Directed by Howard Hawks. B&W, 102 minutes. Respectable, steadfast scientist Dr. David Huxley (Cary Grant) is engrossed in his latest project, completing the skeletal frame of a brontosaurus. …
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Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama, 1934, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Starring Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke. B&W, 90 minutes. Boyhood friends Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) and Jim Wade (William Powell) survive a disaster as children when the ship they …
After the Thin Man
After the Thin Man, 1936, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Starring William Powell, Myrna Loy. Co-starring James Stewart. Directed by W.S. Van Dyke. B&W, 112 minutes. Nick (William Powell) and Nora (Myrna Loy) Charles have returned to their San Francisco home, just in time …
Stella Dallas (1937)
Stella Dallas, 1937, United Artists. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley. Directed by King Vidor. B&W, 106 minutes. Stella Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) is brassy, brazen and audacious enough to step outside of class constraints and pull herself out of …
Bachelor Mother
Bachelor Mother, 1939, RKO Radio Pictures. Starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn. Directed by Garson Kanin. B&W, 82 minutes. Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) has just been laid off of her seasonal job at Merlin and Son’s Department Store. It’s …
Anna Karénina (1935)
Anna Karénina, 1935, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Starring Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone. Directed by Clarence Brown. B&W, 93 minutes. Anna Karénina (Greta Garbo) is bound in a financially and socially comfortable, yet deeply unsatisfying, life at home with her husband of …
You Can’t Take It With You
You Can’t Take It With You, 1938, Columbia Pictures. Starring Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold. Directed by Frank Capra. B&W, 126 minutes. Martin Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore) once was a highly successful businessman, but some 35 years before …
Top Hat
Top Hat, 1935, RKO Radio Pictures. Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. Directed by Mark Sandrich. Music by Irving Berlin. B&W, 100 minutes. A simple story told with wit and charm, a top-notch score by Irving Berlin, and of course, the …
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Wuthering Heights, 1939, United Artists. Starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven. Directed by William Wyler. B&W, 104 minutes. A passionate tale of ill-fated love, Wuthering Heights takes a deep look into the hearts and motivations of Cathy (Merle Oberon) …
The Awful Truth
The Awful Truth, 1937, Columbia Pictures. Starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy. Directed by Leo McCarey. B&W, 90 minutes. Rapid-fire conversations, a sophisticated script and a cast to match make this one of the definitive screwball comedies of all …
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