Celebrating Pre-Code Hollywood 1930-34, when movies were sexy, smart, complex and a hell of a lot of fun. he/him #precode #TCMParty
Danny (aka Pre-Code.Com)
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Going from rural Germany to Las Vegas is… weird.
Me, every time I move back to America: Best Buys?! Still????
Anita Page by Russell Ball, 1932.
Mary Carlisle, 1933. Fashion Friday.
My new favorite hobby is panicking to get to the airport on time, arriving at the last second, and then discovering the flight has been delayed by hours.
I’m in a hotel room for the next month and it has TCM. Last night I was watching and a full on promo for my book came on; hearing your name on cable television is absolutely surreal, especially coming on after a movie exclusively about Michael J Fox undressing in elevators.
The film John Dillinger broke cover to see at Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, enabling Hoover's G-men to fill him with lead when he left. Legend has it that Dillinger was a huge Myrna Loy fan; historians say Dillinger was escaping a heat wave and went for the AC.
