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Celebrating Pre-Code Hollywood 1930-34, when movies were sexy, smart, complex and a hell of a lot of fun. he/him #precode #TCMParty
Billie Burke, born 7 August 1884.
07.08.2025 13:23 — 👍 32 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Poster for The Most Dangerous Game
Now playing (08:25 AM PST):
"The Most Dangerous Game" (1932)
By Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Runtime: 63 min.
Kirkus rated my upcoming pre-Code book as "excellent"! -- www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
07.08.2025 17:01 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Follow me on Letterboxd 👇
letterboxd.com/RaquelStecher/
Criterion is relaunching its Eclipse line on Blu-ray in Nov.
New sets + upgrades — like the out-of-print Lubitsch Musicals— will follow.
"Criterion reaffirms its commitment to making the full richness of film history accessible w/ the reliable permanence of physical media." #FilmSky #PhysicalMedia
Ann Harding in a lovely portrait by William E. Thomas, 1929. #botd (Thread)
07.08.2025 08:47 — 👍 67 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Bought a fiction book, tons of praise on its cover, great sounding summary right up my alley, sat on my end table for four months, grabbed it today to be my only entertainment during my kid’s swim lesson, read the first page and went, “oh no, this is clearly someone’s Creative Writing MFA capstone.”
07.08.2025 07:18 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me repping Arabesque, The Prize, North by Northwest and 36 Hours. There’s a nice pic of Sophia Loren in there too.
Updated my Letterboxd Four Favs with some mid-century spy stuffs — boxd.it/sIr
06.08.2025 19:52 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can only hope. There must be something weird with the rights to Trouble since the Academy has a pretty nice print of it, no idea why it hasn’t merited an upgrade.
06.08.2025 18:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They just announced they’re restarting it and issuing some of the old ones onto blu-ray going forward.
06.08.2025 18:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A rare glimpse behind the scenes of King Kong (1933)
06.08.2025 04:28 — 👍 34 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Going redouble my efforts to talk my daughter into catching it this weekend now. Thanks!
06.08.2025 16:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Eclipse set with pre-Codes on blu-ray coming soon.
Oh hell yes, ONE HOUR WITH YOU on Blu-Ray! This would also mean, what, LOVE PARADE, MONTE CARLO, and THE SMILING LIEUTENANT? Nice.
06.08.2025 16:18 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
I am going to the Surrealism Ball in two weeks with my friend Megan. I’ve got to figure out what I’m going to wear. Naturally I’m looking to the 1930 film “Madam Satan” for inspiration. The costumes were designed by Adrian and they are still dazzling and futuristic even 95 years later.
05.08.2025 05:25 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A nice review for my Film Censorship book in Journal of American History:
academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
“I will never retire. Put that down and underline it. The world is too nice – and so have been all the breaks.” –Miriam Hopkins hometownstohollywood.com/georgia/miri...
03.08.2025 23:27 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Remembering Dolores Del Rio on her birthday. Read about her life and hometown here: hometownstohollywood.com/internationa... #botd
03.08.2025 23:29 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The Studio Era's "perfect wife" looking sexy and sinister in THIRTEEN WOMEN (1932).
Crossing out victims as they are dispatched. One of the (many) tropes making an early appearance in this film.
Ricardo Cortez as the cop investigating the mysterious deaths in THIRTEEN WOMEN (1932).
Irene Dunne as the "final girl" in THIRTEEN WOMEN (1932).
Everybody loves “perfect wife” Myrna Loy, but have you seen her as a serial killer?
THIRTEEN WOMEN (1932) is a Pre-Code thriller w/ Montana-born Myrna as an exotic "mystic" plotting the demise of sorority sisters who bullied her.
A fun watch (w/ context) using tropes still common today. #FilmSky
Birthday gal Dolores Del Rio is #frockingfabulous in this 1935 number by Orry-Kelly.
03.08.2025 19:18 — 👍 62 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Adrienne Ames by Eugene Robert Richee, 1933. #botd
03.08.2025 21:31 — 👍 115 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
It's impossible not to be touched as Tod Browning challenges our perceptions of normality. Tender, grotesque and utterly unforgettable pre-code turpitude. 1932.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam
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03.08.2025 01:37 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Funko pop or Melanie from Hitchcock’s The Birds.
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03.08.2025 06:07 — 👍 41 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
It’s a national holiday (Myrna Loy’s birthday)! Here she is with Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, and director Clarence Brown in a Clarence Sinclair Bull publicity photo for Wife vs. Secretary, taken December 1935:
02.08.2025 19:40 — 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It's a pre-code on the deck kind of night.
01.08.2025 23:07 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ann Dvorak in "Three on a Match"
It's Ann Dvorak's birthday. Wrote a little bit about this fascinating actress - and her performances in Scarface and Heat Lightning - but especially her chilling ahead-of-its-time performance as the race-to-the-bottom Vivian. www.sheilaomalley.com?p=167205
02.08.2025 12:52 — 👍 35 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Barbara Stanwyck, 1933.
02.08.2025 06:41 — 👍 123 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0Come learn all anout Merle Oberon on Saturday, August 2nd at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/love-...
02.08.2025 03:57 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
It's SUMMER UNDER THE STARS on @tcmtv.bsky.social again, so let's enjoy the thrills of Gable, Glenda and Gleason as the season winds down. pre-code.com/pre-code-mov...
01.08.2025 10:54 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
