“That gets it. That little touch of lavender. Am I gonna stink pretty.”
#OnThisDate, June 16, Picture Snatcher (Lloyd Bacon, 1933) is the #FilmDuJour. #USA #PreCode #comedy #LloydBacon #JamesCagney #BillyWest #crime #1930s ★★★½
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91 years ago:
The Famous Ferguson Case (US)
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in ge...
1932-04-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/123292
#TheFamousFergusonCase #LloydBacon #JoanBlondell #TomBrown #PreCode #Film
#thefamousfergusoncase #lloydbacon #joanblondell #tombrown #precode #film
108 years ago:
The Tramp (US)
The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipp...
1915-04-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/30982
#TheTramp #CharlieChaplin #EdnaPurviance #LloydBacon #PreCode #ClassicMovies
#TheTramp #charliechaplin #ednapurviance #lloydbacon #precode #classicmovies
86 years ago:
Marked Woman (US)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
1937-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/25563
#MarkedWoman #LloydBacon #BetteDavis #HumphreyBogart #LolaLane #ClassicMovies
#markedwoman #lloydbacon #bettedavis #humphreybogart #lolalane #classicmovies
89 years ago:
Wonder Bar (US)
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him...
1934-03-31
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/132883
#WonderBar #LloydBacon #KayFrancis #DickPowell #GuyKibbee #ClassicFilm
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92 years ago:
Kept Husbands (US)
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
1931-02-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/106605
#KeptHusbands #LloydBacon #JoelMcCrea #RKO #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film
#kepthusbands #lloydbacon #joelmccrea #rko #precode #classicfilm #classicmovies #movies #film
69 years ago:
The French Line (US)
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
1954-02-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/52843
#TheFrenchLine #LloydBacon #JaneRussell #GilbertRoland #ArthurHunnicutt #RKO #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film
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#BOTD #LloydBacon, director of 42ND ST, FOOTLIGHT PARADE, EVER SINCE EVE, & BOY MEETS GIRL (1938), a new to me #screwballcomedy I enjoyed in 2022. For more films like these:
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