Random Quote
“Tell me, what do you think of the traffic problem? What do you think of the marriage problem? What do you think of at night when you go to bed, you beast?”
-Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx)
from Animal Crackers
from Animal Crackers
Actor: Joan Blondell
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Last August I finally got around to seeing the Jayne Mansfield flick The Girl Can’t Help It, which had been on my to-watch list for years. It was an empty, completely frivolous Technicolor spectacle featuring a mere wisp of a plot and a bunch of early rock and roll numbers thrown in for very little [...]
The Greeks Had A Word For Them (1932)
The Greeks Had a Word for It, a play by Zoe Akins, was a hit on Broadway in 1930. Due to the raunchy nature of the play, the title was on the banned list of the newly formed Hays office, and so the last word was changed to “them” to make it appear to be [...]
Three on a Match (1932)
I came uponThree on a Match as I am trying to get through as many Bette Davis movies as I can find. Unfortunately, it was only one year since Davis’s screen debut, and she has the smallest role of the three women of the title. She was mainly just asked just to look sincere and [...]
The Public Enemy (1931)
We are all so used to hearing people do bad impersonations of James Cagney that it is all too easy to dismiss him as a one-trick pony who did nothing but talk tough with a slight lisp and a vibrato in his cadence. In The Public Enemy, the film that made Cagney a star, he [...]