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Paul Lukas

June 10, 2019 By Cliff Aliperti

Paul Lukas trading card

‘Shop by the Stars’ Immortal Ephemera Store aisle featuring Paul Lukas (1891-1971) mini-biography, along with vintage movie collectibles for sale.

Filed Under: Store Mini-Bios Tagged With: Paul Lukas

The Vice Squad (1931) Starring Paul Lukas, Kay Francis, Judith Wood

March 14, 2016 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Judith Wood and Paul Lukas

Ripped from the headlines: New York’s Vice Squad scandal in Paramount pre-Code The Vice Squad (1931), starring Paul Lukas in a part inspired by Chile Acuna, with Kay Francis and Judith Wood. Directed by John Cromwell.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1931, Esther Howard, Helen Johnson, John Cromwell, Judith Wood, Juliette Compton, Kay Francis, oliver hp garrett, Paramount, Paul Lukas, pre-Code, ripped from the headlines, Rockcliffe Fellowes, William B. Davidson

Downstairs (1932) Starring John Gilbert, From a Story by John Gilbert

September 26, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Bodil Rosing and John Gilbert

Despite its poor reception in 1932, today Downstairs is often pointed to as John Gilbert’s best talkie and further evidence that his voice was not poor. A look at some key scenes with Virginia Bruce and Paul Lukas, plus just how bad of a guy was Gilbert’s Karl?

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Bodil Rosing, John Gilbert, MGM, Monta Bell, Olga Baclanova, Paul Lukas, pre-Code, Reginald Owen, Virginia Bruce, Warner Archive

City Streets (1931) Starring Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney

February 8, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney

A look at the most stylized of the 1931 gangster movies, Rouben Mamoulian’s City Streets (1931) from Paramount, starring Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1931, city streets, Clara Bow, dashiell hammett, Gangsters, Gary Cooper, Guy Kibbee, ladies of the mob, max marcin, oliver hp garrett, Paramount, Paul Lukas, pre-Code, Prohibition, rouben mamoulian, Stanley Fields, Sylvia Sidney, William "Stage" Boyd, Wynne Gibson

Secret of the Blue Room (1933) With Lionel Atwill and Gloria Stuart

October 11, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Gloria Stuart in Secret of the Blue Room

Secret of the Blue Room (1933) may not be Universal horror, but it’s a strong murder mystery that acquired the tinge as part of the late ’50s Shock Theater package on television. Here’s a bit about what it was and what it wasn’t.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, anders van haden, Edward Arnold, Gloria Stuart, Horror, kurt neumann, Lionel Atwill, Murder, muriel kirkland, Mysteries, onslow stevens, Paul Lukas, pre-Code, Robert Barrat, Russell Hopton, Universal, Universal Horror, William Janney

The Devil’s Holiday (1930) Starring Nancy Carroll

September 20, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Nancy Carroll in The Devils Holiday

A look at early Paramount talkie The Devil’s Holiday (1930). Written and directed by Edmund Goulding, but saved from being stale by Nancy Carroll’s Academy Award nominated performance.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1930, Edmund Goulding, Hobart Bosworth, james kirkwood, jed prouty, morgan farley, morton downey, Nancy Carroll, Ned Sparks, Paramount, Paul Lukas, Phillips Holmes, ZaSu Pitts

Paul Lukas – Brief Biography of the Oscar Winning Actor

January 30, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Paul Lukas 1930s Aguila Chocolates Trading Card

A brief biography of Oscar winning actor Paul Lukas includes a couple of early Lukas quotes and the return of Picto-Sked highlighting original newspaper ads of several of his films.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: Paul Lukas, picto-sked

First Impressions: Little Women (1933) Starring Katharine Hepburn

January 19, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

Katharine Hepburn in Little Women

RKO’s classic Little Women (1933) starring Katharine Hepburn as Jo Marsh with Joan Bennett, Frances Dee and Jean Parker as her sisters. Some notes based on the first time I watched the movie.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, Adaptations, David O Selznick, Douglass Montgomery, Edna May Oliver, Frances Dee, George Cukor, Henry Stephenson, Jean Parker, Joan Bennett, john lodge, Katharine Hepburn, little women, louisa may alcott, Paul Lukas, RKO (Pathe), samuel s hinds, Spring Byington

Walter Huston is Dodsworth (1936) with Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor

April 14, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Walter Huston in Dodsworth

Water Huston plays perhaps his finest role when he brings his Sam Dodsworth from the stage to the screen for Sam Goldwyn under William Wyler’s direction. Winner of 1 Oscar, nominated for 6 more, Dodsworth gives us a peek at the complicated married life of a middle-aged couple.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1936, Adaptations, David Niven, Dodsworth, Dramas, Goldwyn, Gregory Gaye, Maria Ouspenskaya, Mary Astor, Paul Lukas, Ruth Chatterton, Sinclair Lewis, Walter Huston, William Wyler

Kay Francis and Ian Hunter in I Found Stella Parish (1935)

March 31, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Kay Francis and Ian Hunter both do good work in Warner Brothers’ I Found Stella Parish (1935). I’m just wondering if I’m supposed to walk away liking either of their characters?

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, Barton MacLane, Dramas, I Found Stella Parish, Ian Hunter, Jessie Ralph, Kay Francis, Mervyn LeRoy, Paul Lukas, Romance, Sybil Jason, Warner Bros.

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