“Week-End Marriage” (1932) — excellent performance from Loretta Young as a skilled personal secretary married to a pathetic whiner. Alas, at the end she is shamed by a doctor into giving up her lucrative career to play housemaid to the whiner. The photo on the poster symbolizes the message of the movie.

#OldHollywood #LorettaYoung #PreCode #TCMParty

Loretta Young and Franchot Tone in “The Unguarded Hour” (1936) — a mystery story based on a series of extremely improbable coincidences. But it’s a fun ride and the supporting cast is great, with Lewis Stone, Henry Daniell, and especially Roland Young.

#OldHollywood #Mysteries #LorettaYoung #TCMParty

Catching up on the Loretta Young Pre-Codes I missed today.

First up: LOOSE ANKLES (1930)

Loretta & Douglas Fairbanks Jr. have genuine chemistry, but Louise Fazenda steals the show as a tipsy spinster.

#TCMParty #LorettaYoung

“Life Begins” (1932) is one of the many Loretta Young pre-codes airing today on #TCM (10:15am CDT).

It’s a good film, but for me is more notable for a terrific Glenda Farrell performance in one of her earliest movies in Hollywood. This is the performance that really kicked off her picture career.

#TCMParty #GlendaFarrell #LorettaYoung

"I shall be beholden to that sensitive, sweet man until I die."
— #LorettaYoung

LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH starring #LonChaney premiered in New York City tonight in 1928.

#OldHollywood #SilentFilm #LaughClownLaugh

72 years ago:
Half Angel (US)
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day. She does not reveal her name and he cannot figur...
1951-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/129437
#HalfAngel #LorettaYoung #JosephCotten #CecilKellaway #20thCenturyFox #Film

85 years ago:
Four Men and a Prayer (US)
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
1938-04-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/116973
#FourMenandaPrayer #JohnFord #LorettaYoung #RichardGreene #GeorgeSanders #20thCenturyFox #ClassicFilm

86 years ago:
Café Metropole (US)
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
1937-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/168031
#CaféMetropole #LorettaYoung #TyronePower #GregoryRatoff #IreneMorra #WomenInFilm #20thCenturyFox #Movies

90 years ago:
Zoo in Budapest (US)
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. When she does she and Zani must hide overni...
1933-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/122709
#ZooinBudapest #RowlandVLee #LorettaYoung #PaulFix #PreCode #Film

83 years ago:
The Doctor Takes a Wife (US)
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
1940-04-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/108200
#TheDoctorTakesaWife #LorettaYoung #RayMilland #EdmundGwenn #ViolaLawrence #WomenInFilm #Columbia #Film

95 years ago:
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (US)
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
1928-04-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/27507
#LaughClownLaugh #LonChaney #LorettaYoung #NilsAsther #MGM #PreCode #ClassicFilm

Gary Cooper and Loretta Young in ALONG CAME JONES (1945). It was the only film (in glorious greyscale) where Cooper tried his hand as film producer. A solid, enjoyable Western cowboy movie of mistaken identity that doesn't take itself too seriously. ❤️

keywords - #garycooper #lorettayoung #1940s #oldhollywood #hollywood #classichollywood #western #cowboy #nowwatching

Loretta Young makes a wonderful bad girl in Born To Be Bad (1934). She’s funny, wonderfully wicked, gorgeous, glamorous and very sexy. She also gets to wear some stunning and very slinky dresses - this is full-on 1930s glamour.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2011/07/born-to-be-bad-1934.html

#LorettaYoung #precodehollywood #precodemovies #precode #classicmovies #classicmovie #1930smovie #goldenagehollywood

84 years ago:
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (US)
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, thoug...
1939-04-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/67375
#TheStoryofAlexanderGrahamBell #DonAmeche #LorettaYoung #HenryFonda #20thCenturyFox #Film

Warner Bros. 100th anniversary kicks off today on TCM w/ Pre-Code classics like EMPLOYEE'S ENTRANCE (1933) w/ #LorettaYoung + #WarrenWilliam

Highlights:
https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/021757/

#TCMParty #WB100 #OldHollywood #FilmMastodon

72 years ago:
Cause for Alarm! (US)
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
1951-03-30
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/29835
#CauseforAlarm #TayGarnett #LorettaYoung #BarrySullivan #IrvingBacon #MGM #ClassicFilm

86 years ago:
Love Is News (US)
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately ...
1937-02-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/82239
#LoveIsNews #TyronePower #LorettaYoung #DonAmeche #IreneMorra #20thCenturyFox #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Film

90 years ago:
Employees' Entrance (US)
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires h...
1933-02-11
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43599
#EmployeesEntrance #LorettaYoung #WallaceFord #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

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91 years ago:
The Hatchet Man (US)
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
1932-02-06
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/118139
#TheHatchetMan #WilliamAWellman #EdwardGRobinson #LorettaYoung #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film