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Marian Marsh was a great lover of the environment and conservation projects so its not surprising that there is an abundance of pictures of her in the great outdoors!!! Flower Power Playing dress-ups Marian and her hobbies: Fishing Golf           read more

Marian Marsh was a great lover of the environment and conservation projects so its not surprising that there is an abundance of pictures of her in the great outdoors!!! Flower Power Playing dress-ups Marian and her hobbies: Fishing Golf           read more

The first in my Marian Marsh marathon, the cute but realistic depression era flick, “Under 18”. THE PLOT: The film begins, optimistically, with a wedding. Sophie Evans (Anita Page) is marrying Alf (Norman Foster) in the prosperity of pre-depression era America. Her sister Madge read more

The first in my Marian Marsh marathon, the cute but realistic depression era flick, “Under 18”. THE PLOT: The film begins, optimistically, with a wedding. Sophie Evans (Anita Page) is marrying Alf (Norman Foster) in the prosperity of pre-depression era America. Her sister Madge read more

Marian Marsh was one in a line of cute and almost child-like Precode actresses – think Alice White and more broadly Clara Bow. But it you watch her films it is obvious that she is something special.  Marian was born Violet Krauth on October 17, 1913 in Trinidad. The family of four childre read more

On her early life: "My father and mother had started a chocolate candy factory in Trinidad. They did all the work themselves at first. From nothing, they built up a good trade. When World War I knocked the bottom out of his market, my father moved us to Boston. There he became vice president of a v read more

Marian Marsh was one in a line of cute and almost child-like Precode actresses – think Alice White and more broadly Clara Bow. But it you watch her films it is obvious that she is something special.  Marian was born Violet Krauth on October 17, 1913 in Trinidad. The family of four childre read more

On her early life: "My father and mother had started a chocolate candy factory in Trinidad. They did all the work themselves at first. From nothing, they built up a good trade. When World War I knocked the bottom out of his market, my father moved us to Boston. There he became vice president of a v read more

Everybody thinks that classic films are individual, one of a kind. That sort of makes sense, perhaps it is this individuality that makes them classic. But some of the most beloved classic films had a past, they were remakes of earlier films; the most notable being silents but some interesting exampl read more

Everybody thinks that classic films are individual, one of a kind. That sort of makes sense, perhaps it is this individuality that makes them classic. But some of the most beloved classic films had a past, they were remakes of earlier films; the most notable being silents but some interesting exampl read more

I was watching a copy of "42nd Street" and on the disc was a couple of amazing documentary clips on the film and the movie industry in general. I've posted them on my Youtube site and below: This is a short clip advertising the film "42nd Street" Another early documentary c read more

A return to the traditional rollicking, sinful, hilarious and suggestive Precode Hollywood with a Wheeler and Woolsey classic, "Hip Hips Hooray" (1934). The Plot: The movie begins with scantily clad chorus girls swaying and lounging in baths to the melody, “Keep Romance Alive” & read more

I was watching a copy of "42nd Street" and on the disc was a couple of amazing documentary clips on the film and the movie industry in general. I've posted them on my Youtube site and below: This is a short clip advertising the film "42nd Street" Another early documentary c read more

A return to the traditional rollicking, sinful, hilarious and suggestive Precode Hollywood with a Wheeler and Woolsey classic, "Hip Hips Hooray" (1934). The Plot: The movie begins with scantily clad chorus girls swaying and lounging in baths to the melody, “Keep Romance Alive” & read more

For something a little different from the obvious Precode classics, a review of the more adult movie of manners, Another Language (1933). CAST: Louise Closser Hale – Mom John Beal – Jerry Henry Travers – Pop Margaret Hamilton – Helen Willard Robertson – Harry read more

For something a little different from the obvious Precode classics, a review of the more adult movie of manners, Another Language (1933). CAST: Louise Closser Hale – Mom John Beal – Jerry Henry Travers – Pop Margaret Hamilton – Helen Willard Robertson – Harry read more

I was reading the beginning of the fabulous autobiography of the tragic and talented Lillian Roth called 'I'll Cry Tommorrow'. I found this interesting passage regarding the early Precode film she costarred in, 'Madam Satan' (1929) and the director Cecil B. DeMille: "...Hollywood's famed dress desi read more

I was reading the beginning of the fabulous autobiography of the tragic and talented Lillian Roth called 'I'll Cry Tommorrow'. I found this interesting passage regarding the early Precode film she costarred in, 'Madam Satan' (1929) and the director Cecil B. DeMille: "...Hollywood's famed dress desi read more

Looking at Precode images and magazines they are swamped by stories and pictures of Alice White. I loved her in the small role as Warren William’s secretary in Employees Entrance but because most of her starring films are obscure I haven’t been able to locate any. A couple of days ago I read more

Here is my top 5 'Precode Dreamings', ie. films, actors, events that have been changed because of the Hays Code and that I wish didn't happen. 1) Intensionally Lost: Convention City (1933) 'Convention City' (according to the small amount of information avaliable on it) was a racy 1933 film in a s read more