EPISODE # 10: Made during the Depression, when America desperately needed to feel good, Shirley Temple is a ray of sunshine in her role as the young orphan, Rebecca, who auditions for a spot on a radio show. Today, she still ranks as the …
Tag: 30s
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
EPISODE # 07: Travel back to the foggy London streets of 1894 for the exciting exploits of the world’s most famous private detective. This follow-up to The Hound of the Baskervilles is even better than its predecessor. Basil Rathbone gives a marvelous performance as …
Top Hat (1935)
EPISODE # 04: TOP HAT is not a movie you watch for the plot so much as to experience the star power and the chemistry of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. In this rapid-fire review that was recorded at the historic Los Angeles Theatre …
City Lights (1931)
EPISODE # 03: Charlie Chaplin, playing his iconic Tramp character, falls in love with a blind flower girl…and hilarity ensues? What happens when one person writes, stars, edits, and directs a movie? And is the ending of this film possibly the GREATEST ending ever? …
A Star Is Born (1937)
EPISODE # 02: Is Frederic March just a dirty old man in the original A STAR IS BORN? Can a Hollywood marriage survive when one career is on its way up and the other is in a death spiral? And why is James bitter …