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Ten Cents a Dance (1931) Starring Barbara Stanwyck

January 23, 2016 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Ten Cents a Dance 1931

A pre-Code set around a dance hall starring Barbara Stanwyck with Monroe Owsley and Ricardo Cortez, and I didn’t like it? Uh uh. Here’s what I didn’t like about Ten Cents a Dance (1931).

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1931, Barbara Stanwyck, Blanche Friderici, Columbia, Lionel Barrymore, Monroe Owsley, pre-Code, Ricardo Cortez, Sally Blane

Captains Courageous (1937) Starring Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy

February 9, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew

MGM Golden Age classic Captains Courageous is highlighted by a heavily modernized and modified adaptation of Kipling’s novel that provides opportunity for Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew to shine in the leading roles.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1937, action, Adventures, at sea, Charley Grapewin, Freddie Bartholomew, John Carradine, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, MGM, Mickey Rooney, Rudyard Kipling, Spencer Tracy, Victor Fleming

Arsène Lupin (1932) Starring John and Lionel Barrymore

December 28, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Arsene Lupin 1932 newspaper ad

John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore share the screen together for the first time in MGM’s Arsène Lupin (1932). Excellent mystery also includes strong work from Karen Morley.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: Adaptations, John Barrymore, John Miljan, Karen Morley, Lionel Barrymore, Maurice Leblanc, MGM, Mysteries, pre-Code, Tully Marshall, Warner Archive

Test Pilot (1938) Starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy

May 30, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Cinefilo Magazine November 11 1938 Clark Gable Myrna Loy Spencer Tracy

Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy live up to expectations in MGM’s Test Pilot (1938). One of the most popular films of 1938, the Academy Award-nominated Best Picture directed by Victor Fleming allows all three stars to shine in strong parts that they enliven with strong performances. Time well spent, no matter the length.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1938, action, air travel, Clark Gable, Gloria Holden, Lionel Barrymore, Louis Jean Heydt, Marjorie Main, MGM, Myrna Loy, Priscilla Lawson, Romance, Spencer Tracy, Ted Pearson, Victor Fleming, Virginia Grey, Warner Archive

Sweepings (1933) and Mamie’s Christmas Counter Freak-Out

December 24, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Sweepings 1933

Lester Cohen adapted his own novel Sweepings for RKO in 1933. It was remade as Three Sons in 1939. The story is about a retail king and his family, but the focus of this article turns to Helen Mack’s explosive Christmas Eve scene with additional details about her character filled in from Cohen’s novel.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, 1939, Adaptations, Alan Dinehart, Business, Christmas, Edward Ellis, Eric Linden, Gregory Ratoff, Helen Mack, j edward bromberg, Jesse L. Lasky, John Cromwell, lester cohen, Lionel Barrymore, pre-Code, retail, RKO (Pathe), three sons, Warner Archive, William Gargan

Eric Linden Comes of Age in MGM’s Ah, Wilderness! (1935)

July 4, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Ah Wilderness 1935

Eric Linden loves Cecilia Parker in Ah, Wilderness! (1935), but his passion threatens to take him down the same road that has doomed Wallace Beery with Aline MacMahon. MGM adapts Eugene O’Neill’s “comedy of recollection.” Directed by Clarence Brown.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, Ah Wilderness, Cecilia Parker, Charley Grapewin, Clarence Brown, Eric Linden, Eugene O'Neill, Lionel Barrymore, MGM, Mickey Rooney, Spring Byington, Wallace Beery, Warner Archive

The Penalty (1941) Starring Gene Reynolds and Edward Arnold

April 24, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Gene Reynolds in The Penalty

Roosty worships gangster dad “Stuff” Nelson in MGM’s The Penalty (1941). When the G-men send Roosty to the farm he has to adjust to life amongst the hicks. Starring Edward Arnold as Stuff, Lionel Barrymore and Gene Reynolds as Roosty.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1941, Edward Arnold, Emma Dunn, Gangsters, Gene Reynolds, gloria dehaven, Grant Mitchell, harold s bucquet, Lionel Barrymore, Marsha Hunt, martin berkeley, phil silvers, richard lane, robert sterling, the penalty, veda ann borg

Summer Under the Stars Progress Report – First Impressions of 5 Movies

August 11, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Gloria Dickson

First impressions of movies introduced to me by TCM’s Summer Under the Stars: They Won’t Forget (1937); The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937); Tennessee Johnson (1942); To Sir, With Love (1967) and You Were Never Lovelier (1942).

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Adolphe Menjou, christian roberts, Claude Rains, Fred Astaire, Gloria Dickson, Jean Muir, judy geeson, Lionel Barrymore, Preston Foster, Rita Hayworth, Ruth Hussey, Sidney Poitier, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, suzy kendall, TCM, tennessee johnson, the outcasts of poker flat, they wont forget, to sir with love, Van Heflin, Virginia Weidler, you were never lovelier

Lionel Barrymore – “Scion of Famous Family Appears in Pantomime”

August 10, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 8 Comments

John and Lionel Barrymore 1930s A Batschari German Tobacco Card

Lionel Barrymore in the newspapers beginning with an 1882 mention of four-year-old Lionel and tracing his early stage career, painting hiatus through to coverage of his film debut for Biograph. Plus the 2012 TCM Summer Under the Stars schedule.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Lionel Barrymore, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Night Flight (1933) with John and Lionel Barrymore, Gable and More

August 10, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Click Lionel to visit the blogathon for Summer Under the Stars coverage from others

An all-star cast may be advertised but Night Flight (1933) is mostly Barrymore, John with a dash of Lionel. Not much for Clark Gable and the rest with the exception of Robert Montgomery.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, action, air mail, antoine de saint-exupery, aviation, Buster Phelps, C. Henry Gordon, Clarence Brown, Clark Gable, David O Selznick, dorothy burgess, harry beresford, Helen Hayes, Helen Jerome Eddy, Irving Pichel, John Barrymore, leslie fenton, Lionel Barrymore, MGM, Myrna Loy, night flight, oliver hp garrett, Robert Montgomery, south america, William Gargan

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