Tag: Martha Sleeper
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Penthouse (1933) Review, with Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
Jackson Durant Warner Baxter Gertie Waxted Myrna Loy Tony Gazotti Nat Pendleton Jim Crelliman C. Henry Gordon Sue Leonard Martha Sleeper Mimi Mae Clarke Released by MGM | Directed By W.S. Van Dyke Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Mouthpiece” Jackson Durant is more than happy to defend bootleggers and chorus girls– so long as they’re innocent…
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Madam Satan (1930) Review
The Particulars of the Picture Angela … Kay Johnson Bob … Reginald Denny Jimmy Wade … Roland Young Trixie … Lilian Roth Madam Satan … ??? Directed by Cecil B. DeMille Madam Satan: Hell in a Handbasket Who wants to go to hell with Madam Satan? Cecil B. DeMille’s Madam Satan is many things, but…
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Ten Cents a Dance (1931) Review, with Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara O’Neill Barbara Stanwyck Bradley Carlton Ricardo Cortez Eddie Miller … Monroe Owlsey Proof That It’s Pre-Code Ten Cents a Dance is about professional dance hall girls, who don’t come across like prostitutes at all. I mean, sure, they stand around, looking bored (“while you wait, you advertise”), waiting for a man to proposition them…