Tag: Jill Esmond

Is My Face Red? (1932) Review, with Helen Twelvetrees and Ricardo Cortez

Dec 4, 2015

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in All Reviews, Comedy, Drinking During Prohibition, Mockery of Marriage, Scantily Clad Women, Slapping Women Around, Speakeasies, Suggestive Dialogue

Bill Poster Ricardo Cortez Peggy Helen Twelvetrees Mildred Jill Esmond Tony Sidney Toler Maloney Robert Armstrong The Operator Zasu Pitts Released by RKO | Directed by William A. Seiter Proof That It’s Pre-Code An old man is running around with a showgirl who calls him ‘popsie wopsie’. Our protagonist smacks his secretary. On the face.…
Thirteen Women (1932) Review, with Irene Dunne and Myrna Loy

Mar 10, 2011

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Danny

in 1932, All Reviews, Catfights, Divorce, Horror, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Murder Without Consequence, Race and/or Blackface, Suggestive Dialogue, Suicide, Thrill Killing

Myrna Loy camps it up in the proto-slasher THIRTEEN WOMEN.