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MGM’s Hardy Family Series #2 – You’re Only Young Once (1937)

November 30, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Eleanor Lynn and Mickey Rooney

The second entry of the Hardy Family series, You’re Only Young Once (1937), sees the family vacation at Santa Catalina Island and features the first appearances of Lewis Stone, Fay Holden and Ann Rutherford in the parts they will reprise throughout the lifetime of the series.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1937, Andy Hardy, Ann Rutherford, Cecilia Parker, charles judels, eleanor lynn, Fay Holden, frank craven, George B Seitz, Hardy Family, Judge Hardy, Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Sara Haden, selmer jackson, Ted Pearson, Warner Archive, youre only young once

The Wet Parade (1932) Dramatizes the Evils of Liquor … and Prohibition

December 14, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Dorothy Jordan Robert Young Walter Huston

The Wet Parade (1932) from MGM takes a stand against the evils of both liquor and Prohibition towards the tail end of the Prohibition era. Starring Walter Huston, Lewis Stone, Robert Young, Dorothy Jordan, Neil Hamilton, Jimmy Durante and Myrna Loy.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, alcoholism, Clara Blandick, Dorothy Jordan, Jimmy Durante, Joan Marsh, John Lee Mahin, Lewis Stone, MGM, Myrna Loy, Neil Hamilton, pre-Code, Prohibition, Robert Young, Upton Sinclair, Victor Fleming, Wallace Ford, Walter Huston, Warner Archive

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (1935)

June 12, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Elizabeth Allan 1939 Gallaher Tobacco Card

A look at MGM’s 1935 production of the Charles Dickens classic David Copperfield starring Freddie Bartholomew and WC Fields. Includes notes and quotes from David O. Selznick and George Cukor about production and casting, a brief outline of the film and its many characters, the latter highlighted by a biography of of the obscure Lennox Pawle, who played Mr. Dick.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, Adaptations, Basil Rathbone, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, David O Selznick, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Elsa Lanchester, Frank Lawton, Freddie Bartholomew, George Cukor, Herbert Mundin, Jessie Ralph, Lennox Pawle, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, Madge Evans, Maureen O'Sullivan, MGM, Nicholas Schenck, Roland Young, Una O'Connor, Violet Kemble Cooper, W.C. Fields

Woman Wanted (1935) Starring Maureen O’Sullivan and Joel McCrea

May 21, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

MGM’s Woman Wanted (1935) stars Maureen O’Sullivan as a wrongly convicted murderer on the run and into Joel McCrea’s arms. With Louis Calhern, Adrienne Ames, Lewis Stone, and Edgar Kennedy.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, Adrienne Ames, butlers, Crime, Edgar Kennedy, Gangsters, George B Seitz, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone, Louis Calhern, Maureen O'Sullivan, MGM, Robert Greig, Romantic Comedy

A Family Affair (1937) Introduces Judge Hardy’s Family

September 10, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Mickey Rooney in A Family Affair

A look at A Family Affair, the first installment of the Hardy Family series of movies released in 1937. While Mickey Rooney is on the scene as Andy Hardy, we have Lionel Barrymore playing Judge Hardy as well as some other casting we’re not used too.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1937, Ah Wilderness, Andy Hardy, Ann Rutherford, Cecilia Parker, Charley Grapewin, Eric Linden, Eugene O'Neill, Fay Holden, Hardy Family, Judge Hardy, Julie Haydon, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, Margaret Marquis, Mickey Rooney, Sara Haden, Spring Byington, Warner Archive

First Impressions: Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary (1941)

September 1, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Brief first impressions of Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary (1941) written shortly after first viewing. Starring Mickey Rooney with the Hardy clan and Kathryn Grayson.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1941, Andy Hardy, Andy Hardys Private Secretary, Ann Rutherford, Ian Hunter, Kathryn Grayson, Lewis Stone, MGM, Mickey Rooney, Warner Archive

Big Cast in MGM’s 1951 anthology It’s a Big Country

May 15, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Van Johnson in It's a Big Country

8 uneven vignettes makes up the disappointing 1951 American Anthology, It’s a Big Country. Big stars-Gary Cooper, Fredric March, William Powell-little ideas.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1951, anthology, Dore Schary, Ethel Barrymore, Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Gene Kelly, George Murphy, It's a Big Country, James Whitmore, Janet Leigh, Keefe Brasselle, Keenan Wynn, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Main, MGM, Nancy Davis, SZ Sakall, Van Johnson, Warner Archive, William Powell

Robert Taylor and Janet Gaynor star in Small Town Girl (1936)

April 19, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Janet Gaynor and Robert Taylor in Small Town Girl

Robert Taylor and Janet Gaynor star in MGM’s Small Town Girl (1936) directed by William Wellman and nothing special for any of the main participants.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1936, Andy Devine, Binnie Barnes, Charley Grapewin, Edgar Kennedy, Isabel Jewell, James Stewart, Janet Gaynor, Lewis Stone, MGM, Movie Reviews, Robert Taylor, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Small Town Girl, William A. Wellman

China Seas (1935) starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow

March 3, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

The Clark Gable and Jean Harlow teaming peaks in China Seas, the 4th of their 6 MGM pairings, a tale of love and piracy at sea also starring Wallace Beery and Rosalind Russell.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, Adventures, C Aubrey Smith, China Seas, Clark Gable, Dudley Digges, Edward Brophy, Jean Harlow, Lewis Stone, MGM, Movie Reviews, pirates, Robert Benchley, Romance, Rosalind Russell, Wallace Beery

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