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You are here: Home / Archives for Clive Brook

Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld (1927) Starring George Bancroft

October 28, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Underworld 1927

Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld (1927) inspires a cycle of gangster films that stretches beyond the late silent era. A look at the performances of George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, and Clive Brook, and the relationship between their characters.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1927, Ben Hecht, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, Fred Kohler, Gangsters, George Bancroft, Helen Lynch, Jerry Mandy, Josef von Sternberg, Larry Semon, Paramount

Best Picture Cavalcade (1933) Sets Stage for Upstairs, Downstairs and Beyond

July 16, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 13 Comments

Diana Wynyard in Cavalcade

Looking at the 1934 Academy Award winning Best Picture, Hollywood-made Cavalcade (1933) based on Noel Coward’s hit London play. Fans of Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey will find themselves in a familiar place. Piece also includes brief biographies of Cavalcade stars Diana Wynyard, Herbert Mundin and Ursula Jeans.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, Academy Awards, best picture winners, Betty Grable, Billy Bevan, Bonita Granville, cavalcade, Clive Brook, diana wynyard, Frank Lawton, frank lloyd, Herbert Mundin, John Warburton, Margaret Lindsay, Noel Coward, Una O'Connor, upstairs downstairs, ursula jeans

Paramount’s 24 Hours (1931) with Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins

February 13, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

24 Hours Paramount 1931

Paramount’s Marion Gering gives us Louis Bromfield’s 24 Hours (1931) in just 66 minutes. Featuring an alcoholic Clive Brook, fashionable Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins belting out a pair of songs in a pre-Code drama ripe for rediscovery.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1931, 24 hours, Adrienne Ames, bob kortman, Charlotte Granville, Clive Brook, Dramas, Gangsters, George Barbier, Kay Francis, louis bromfield, Lucille La Verne, Marion Gering, Minor Watson, Miriam Hopkins, Paramount, pre-Code, Regis Toomey, wade boteler

Paramount’s The Night of June 13th (1932), Street Scene of the Suburbs

October 7, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

From Film Daily, September 22, 1932

The Night of June 13th (1932) was Paramount’s answer to Street Scene in which they set an ensemble cast loose on each other in the suburbs. With Clive Brook, the first pairing of Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland, plus Lila Lee, Gene Raymond, Frances Dee, Charley Grapewin and many others.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Adrianne Allen, Arthur Hohl, Charley Grapewin, Charlie Ruggles, Clive Brook, Courtroom Drama, Dramas, Frances Dee, gene raymond, Helen Jerome Eddy, Helen Ware, Lila Lee, Mary Boland, Paramount, Richard Carle, Stephen Roberts, street scene, suburbs, the night of june 13th, vera caspary

Clive Brook adapts, directs, and stars in On Approval (1944)

May 29, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Clive Brook does it all in 1944’s On Approval, where Googie Withers and Brook himself tag along when Beatrice Lillie attempts a trial marriage with Roland Culver.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1944, Beatrice Lillie, British Films, Clive Brook, comedy of manners, Googie Withers, Movie Reviews, on approval, Roland Culver

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