Danny (aka Pre-Code.Com)

PRE-CODE ESSENTIALS by myself and Kim Luperi releases October 28th! Covers 50 of the wildest and sexiest movies of 1930-34, with over 200 pictures and tons of trivia. - Amazon - amzn.to/4hNVqQO - Barnes & Noble - www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pre-code-e... - Bookshop - bookshop.org/a/111647/979...

A nice use of a distinctive backdrop by Paramount photographer Otto Dyar. Carole Lombard photo shoot for Ladies' Man (1931).

🎃Got a spooky season installment of POPCORN DISABILITIES!🎃 I'm talking about 1932's FREAKS and why it's still a legend in the disability community today. Also, why MGM should take shit forever for how they promoted it. Free to read for Halloween!! thefilmmaven.com/freaks-1932-...

Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich in a still from Morocco (1930).

Claudette Colbert

Carole Lombard

Tuesday pre-code morning movie! NIGHT NURSE (1931) Tuesday 27th Oct, 8:10am stars #BarbaraStanwyck #JoanBlondell #BenLyon crime drama #TPTVsubtitles

Toby Wing

Norma Shearer

Kay Johnson in Madam Satan (1930)

Carole Lombard unusual publicity for one of her better pre-codes, as Mae in Virtue (1932).

Barbara Stanwyck in Picture Play, May 1931 “Extreme naturalness and appealing womanliness—these are the qualities that have skyrocketed Barbara Stanwyck to great popularity in a short time. They were most evident in those two hits, ‘Ladies of Leisure’ and ‘llicit’… ”

Walter Huston as Lincoln in 1930.

Fascinating look at the "pansy craze" of the 1930s, and what its disappearance can tell us about contemporary queer culture:

Paulette Goddard by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1932.

Went to a minor league soccer game tonight that was themed around the book FOURTH WING as the author is a local, and I just want to say any minor league team out there that wants to do a Pre-Code Hollywood night, I will unabashedly go hog wild for you.

Theresa Harris

SCARLET RIVER (1933) — 7:00 pm ET — 1h 2m (TCM Daytime: RKO Westerns) Tom Keene, Betty Furness, Creighton Chaney; directed by Otto Brower During location shooting, a movie cowboy is called upon to act like the real thing. #TCM #TCMParty

Claudette Colbert

Joan Blondell, Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler in a publicity still for DAMES (1934)

Fay Wray

Marlene Dietrich

THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933) — 11:00 pm ET — 1h 11m (Films on Film | Expressionism in Hollywood) Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan; directed by James Whale A scientist's experiments with invisibility turn him into a madman. #TCM #TCMParty

Love Carole Lombard's look in publicity for Man Of The World (1931). I actually like this early film of hers, not so much for Carole, who's still quite inexperienced. But Powell as the exiled American in Paris who longs to go home, is rather moving, falling for her on film as well as in real life.

Missed her birthday yesterday so here's Lilyan Tashman rocking a look from 1931.

Filmmaker/producer Merian C. Cooper was born on October 24, 1893 #botd pictured in a publicity photo with Fay Wray.

Images from films shot by cinematographer Arthur Edeson - BOTD in 1891 Frankenstein (1931) The Invisible Man (1933) Satan Met a Lady (1936) The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Here for grapefruit-lover Mae Clarke #TCMParty #Frankenstein

THE BLACK CAT (1934) — 12:15 am ET — 1h 5m (Films on Film | Expressionism in Hollywood) Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, David Manners; directed by Edgar G. Ulmer A Satanist faces off with the vengeful man whose wife and daughter he has stolen. #TCM #TCMParty

One of the first and still one of the best. FRANKENSTEIN (1931), tonight at 9:45 PM on #TCM. #classicmovies #classichorrormovies #universalhorror

Myrna Loy as a chorus girl in The Jazz Singer (1927).

#botd Constance Bennett for Moulin Rouge (1934).

Bebe Daniels wonders why Thriftbooks ruins perfectly good dust jackets on old books with their big ugly sticker.

BED OF ROSES (1933) — 10:30 am ET — 1h 7m (TCM Birthday Tribute: Constance Bennett) Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, John Halliday; directed by Gregory La Cava A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin. #TCM #TCMParty

Constance Bennett by George Hurrell for Moulin Rouge (1934). #botd

WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? (1932) — 9:00 am ET — 1h 28m (TCM Birthday Tribute: Constance Bennett) Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton; directed by George Cukor A drunken director whose career is fading helps a waitress become a Hollywood star. #TCM #TCMParty

I own too many Snoopy watches now, time to expand.

Growing up with a legendary movie monster for a dad makes for a pretty unique family story. But what if you waited till you were 19 to see their most famous film? 🎬 Sara Karloff joins Ticklish Business to talk about Boris Karloff & Frankenstein. The full interview is on our YouTube now!

Myrna Loy

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard in a still from No Man Of Her Own (1932).

THEY LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN (1930) — 7:15 am ET — 1h 12m (TCM Daytime: Baseball Classics) Bessie Love, Mary Doran, Gus Van; directed by Sam Wood, Jack Conway Professional baseball players win big with their vaudeville act until love gets in the way. #TCM #TCMParty

Kay Francis, her gravity-defying decolletage, William Powell and his generous donation of kind bud to law enforcement officers have arrived. Pre-Code Warren William and Bette Davis came with them. 🥳 Thanks for the heads up, @willmckinley.bsky.social! #TCM #PhysicalMedia

🤩 Spotted by my colleague in the basement of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater (reopened in 2024 as concert venue). 🤩 ATTN: @marshagordon.bsky.social!

Alice White for Playing Around by Mervyn LeRoy (1930)

THE WORLD CHANGES (1933) — 4:00 pm ET — 1h 30m (TCM Daytime: Rich Men, Poor Men) Paul Muni, Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor; directed by Mervyn LeRoy When a farmer strikes it rich in business, success goes to his head. #TCM #TCMParty

Pre-Code season @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at pre-watershed times … starting Monday youtube.com/watch?v=RwcT...

TURN BACK THE CLOCK (1933) — 9:00 am ET — 1h 19m (TCM Daytime: Rich Men, Poor Men) Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger, Mae Clarke; directed by Edgar Selwyn A middle aged working man gets to relive his life and make himself wealthy. #TCM #TCMParty