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You are here: Home / Archives for Frank Capra

Frank Capra’s Broadway Bill (1934) Starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy

June 17, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

1937 John Sinclair Film Stars

A look at Frank Capra’s follow-up to It Happened One Night, the 1934 holiday release Broadway Bill starring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy and a horse named Broadway Bill. With comparison to 1950 remake Riding High and explanation of why Bill wound up out of circulation until 1992.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1934, Bing Crosby, Charles Lane, Clara Blandick, Clarence Muse, Claude Gillingwater, Douglass Dumbrille, Frank Capra, Frankie Darro, Helen Vinson, Horse Racing, Lucille Ball, Lynne Overman, Margaret Hamilton, Myrna Loy, Raymond Walburn, Robert Riskin, Sports, Walter Connolly, Ward Bond, Warner Archive, Warner Baxter

Harry Carey Images … And More

January 16, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Harry Carey 1930 BAT Tobacco Card

When I think Harry Carey two very different images immediately pop to mind. They’re here, with several others, as we zero on Carey’s unforgettable face. Plus, Elmer Booth.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: calendar, D.W. Griffith, elmer booth, Frank Capra, Harry Carey, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, the musketeers of pig alley

Claudette Colbert, Her Start, Broadway Success and Earliest Films

September 13, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Claudette Colbert 1939 Rothmans Beauties tobacco card

A biography of Claudette Colbert covering her earliest days as she came to the stage, found Broadway success and transitioned to film. Claudette Colbert from France to New York, up until It Happened One Night (1934).

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies, News - Notes Tagged With: Claudette Colbert, Frank Capra, it happened one night, the barker, The Sign of the Cross, the smiling lieutenant

First Impressions of TCM’s Barbara Stanwyck Pre-Code Mini Marathon

July 21, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 8 Comments

Barbara Stanwyck Cigirillos Okey Card

A quick peek back at the four early Barbara Stanwyck pre-code movies aired by TCM on July 20: Shopworn (1932), Ten Cents a Dance (1931), Illicit (1931) and Forbidden (1932).

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Adolphe Menjou, Barbara Stanwyck, forbidden, Frank Capra, illicit, Monroe Owsley, pre-Code, Ralph Bellamy, Ricardo Cortez, shopworn, ten cents a dance

Top Box Office Directors of the Early 1930’s

July 18, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

William Wellman 1938 Movie Millions Game Card

Film exhibitors name the top ten box office film directors for 1932-33 and 1933-34. Many pre-code movie favorites mentioned in period polls by The Hollywood Reporter.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: alftred e green, box office, Frank Capra, poll results, pre-Code, the hollywood reporter

The Women star in Westward the Women (1951) with Robert Taylor

April 24, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 9 Comments

Westward the Women

Based on a story by Frank Capra sold to MGM for William Wellman, Robert Taylor may be top-billed in Westward the Women, but the end credits get it right, The Women are the true stars here.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1951, Beverly Dennis, Denise Darcel, Frank Capra, Henry Nakamura, Hope Emerson, John McIntire, Lenore Lonergan, Marilyn Erskine, Renata Vanni, Robert Taylor, Warner Archive, Westerns, Westward the Women, William A. Wellman

Early Frank Capra on TCM today, we go earlier with The Matinee Idol (1928)

May 18, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Frank Capra

Frank Capra silent feature The Matinee Idol is a great way to introduce yourself to Bessie Love who gives a fantastic performance as a local hick actor brought to Broadway for laughs … and tears.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1928, Bessie Love, Frank Capra, Johnnie Walker, Movie Reviews, Silent Film

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