Actor: John Barrymore

True Confession (1937)

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I had never heard of True Confession before today, and was happy I found it, because Carole Lombard is incredibly funny in this screwball comedy. Lombard grew up with two older brother in Fort Wayne, Indiana and developed into something of a natural tomboy. It was this image that was carried over to the screen [...]


Dinner At Eight (1933)

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After seeing Jean Harlow in a role that was all too small in The Public Enemy, I wanted to see more of her as soon as possible. Harlow is great as the whining, spoiled wife of a brash, power-mad businessman (Wallace Beery). “Doctor Talbot says yer a extravurt an I’m a intravurt, and intravurt you [...]


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

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Some friends and I got together to watch some silent films. My one complaint about silents is how little thought has been put into the music they throw on DVD releases. This evening, I made up a play list of instrumental music, mostly Philip Glass and Steve Reich, with a little Mozart thrown in, and [...]


Random Quote

“I'm going to cut out drinking and swearing and everything connected with the crazy newspaper business! Honey, I'll never even read a newspaper.”
-Hildy Johnson (Pat O'Brien)
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