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SHOPWORN (1932)

Jon W. — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:52:43 +0000

Shopworn is a lively Columbia melodrama with Barbara Stanwyck as Kitty, a spirited waitress from the wrong side of the tracks who falls for a wealthy young man. Their romance ignites the wrath of his domineering mother, leading to scandal, sacrifice, and Kitty’s struggle to hold on to both her dignity and her chance at love.

Director: Nick Grinde.
Writers: Sarah Y. Mason (story), Jo Swerling & Robert Riskin (dialogue).
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, Zasu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield, Clara Blandick, LeRoy Mason, Oscar Apfel, Maude Turner Gordon, Albert Conti, James Durkin.
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker.
Composer: William Alwyn.

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RANGE FEUD (1931)

Jon W. — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:53:54 +0000

Ranchers Walton and Turner are losing cattle to rustlers and they each blame the other. After Walton and Clint Turner argue, Walton is found shot and Sheriff Gordon has to arrest his friend Clint. With Clint scheduled to be hung, Gordon desperately looks for evidence to clear him.

Director: D. Ross Lederman.
Writer: Milton Krims.
Stars: Buck Jones, John Wayne, Susan Fleming, Edward LeSaint, Will Walling, Wallace MacDonald, Harry Woods, Frank Austin.
Cinematographer: Benjamin H. Kline.

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CALL HER SAVAGE (1932)

Jon W. — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 19:20:58 +0000

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.

Director: John Francis Dillon.
Writers: Edwin J. Burke (screenplay), Tiffany Thayer (from the novel by).
Stars: Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd, Monroe Owsley, Estelle Taylor, Weldon Heyburn, Willard Robertson, Anthony Jowitt, Fred Kohler, Russell Simpson, Margaret Livingston, Carl Stockdale, Dorothy Peterson.
Cinematographer: Lee Garmes.
Composers: Peter Brunelli (uncredited), Arthur Lange (uncredited).

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LADIES’ MAN (1931)

Jon W. — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:50:54 +0000

Handsome and charming New York bachelor James Darricott, known by his women friends as Jamie, makes his living by pawning the expensive gifts that the women he entertains give him. Jamie runs into trouble when Rachel, the daughter of Helene Fendley, whom he has been seeing, falls in love with him and asks her mother to end her affair so she can marry him.

Director: Lothar Mendes.
Writers: Rupert Hughes (novel), Herman J. Mankiewicz (screenplay).
Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Carole Lombard, Gilbert Emery, Olive Tell, Martin Burton, John Holland, Frank Atkinson, Maude Turner Gordon.
Cinematographer: Victor Milner.
Composers: Karl Hajos (uncredited), Herman Hand (uncredited), John Leipold (uncredited).

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STATE FAIR (1933)

Jon W. — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:56:44 +0000

The Frake family attends the Iowa State Fair. Father Abel enters his Hampshire boar Blue Boy in the hog contest, mother Melissa enters the mincemeat competition, and their young-adult children Margy and Wayne find love with newspaper reporter Pat Gilbert and trapeze artist Emily Joyce. Will everyone return home safe and happy or will hearts be broken?

Director: Henry King.
Writers: Sonya Levien & Paul Green (screenplay), Philip Stong (novel), Frank Craven (contributing writer) (uncredited), Julien Josephson (contributing writer) (uncredited), Philip Stong (contributing writer) (uncredited), Henry Wales (contributing writer) (uncredited).
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Norman Foster, Louise Dresser, Frank Craven, Victor Jory, Frank Melton.
Cinematographer: Hal Mohr, Joseph A. Valentine (uncredited)
Composer: Louis De Francesco (uncredited).

1934 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture.
1934 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing, Adaptation (Paul Green, Sonya Levien)

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THE VIRTUOUS SIN (1930)

Jon W. — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 07:26:36 +0000

Marya is married to medical student Victor Sablin, who finds it impossible to deal with military life when he is inducted into the Russian army during World War I. When her husband is sentenced to death by firing squad due to his insubordination, Marya offers herself to General Gregori Platoff in order to save him. When the two unexpectedly fall in love, Victor — not caring that his life has been spared — threatens to kill his rival.

Directors: George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier (as Louis Gasnier).
Writers: Martin Brown (screenplay), Louise Long (scenario), Lajos Zilahy (play).
Stars: Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Kenneth MacKenna, Jobyna Howland, Paul Cavanagh, Eric Kalkhurst, Oscar Apfel, Gordon McLeod, Youcca Troubetzkov, Victor Potel.
Cinematographer: David Abel.

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DELICIOUS (1931)

Jon W. — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 03:19:00 +0000

A varied group of immigrants head for the USA aboard S.S. Mauronia, including Russians Sascha, Mischa, Toscha, and Olga. Sascha has fallen for Scots lassie Heather; Olga is courted by Chris Jansen, valet of first class passenger Larry Beaumont. Heather catches Larry’s eye, to the discomfiture of Larry’s other flame Diana. On arrival, Heather has immigration trouble, and a variety of complications ensue…

Director: David Butler.
Writers: Guy Bolton (story), Guy Bolton & Sonya Levien (adaptation).
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, El Brendel, Raul Roulien, Lawrence O’Sullivan, Manya Roberti, Virginia Cherrill, Mischa Auer, Olive Tell, Marvine Maazel.
Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer.
Composer: George Gershwin.

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TOO MUCH HARMONY (1933)

Jon W. — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 09:22:36 +0000

There can never be Too Much Harmony in a Bing Crosby picture, not even in a bucolic backstage musical like this. Crosby plays Eddie Bronson, a big-time singing star stranded in a one-horse town. Refusing to let any grass grow under his feet, Eddie combs through the local talent, discovering comedians Benny Day and Johnny Dixon and aspiring actress Ruth Brown. He brings his new protegees with him to Broadway, where Ruth becomes a huge success in spite of the machinations of prima donna Lucille Watson.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland.
Writers: Paul Jones (uncredited), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (story), Harry Ruskin (dialogue).
Stars: Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher, Harry Green, Judith Allen, Lilyan Tashman, Ned Sparks, Kitty Kelly, Grace Bradley, Evelyn Oakie, Henry Armetta, Billy Bevan, Anna Demetrio, Shirley Grey.
Composer: Heinz Roemheld (uncredited).
Cinematographer: Theodor Sparkuhl.