#pre-code hollywood

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Joyzelle Joyner as Looloo, Queen of Mars - Just Imagine (1930)

[anitapallenberg]

Jewel Robbery (1932) | Dir. William Dieterle

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Gertrude Michael ogles 1932 Olympic swimming gold medalist (and eventual screen Tarzan) Buster Crabbe to the annoyance of Robert Armstrong in the Paramount Pictures/Erle C. Kenton risqué pre-code romp Search for Beauty, 1934.

[precodesoul]

Sylvia Sidney photographed by Eugene Robert Richee for the film Behold My Wife (dir. Mitchell Leisen, 1934)

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE FACES OF PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD ROMANTIC DRAMAS -- PURE AMERICAN STYLE.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a studio publicity photo of American screen actors Clark Gable and Mary Astor, for the 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film, "Red Dust," directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clark-Gable-Mary-Astor-Red-Dust-1932-scene-portrait.JPG.

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Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express (1932)

[forthegothicheroine]

The Scarlet Empress is a fascinatingly strange movie. It's a bawdy fairy tale played on the set of an intricately decorated dollhouse. It's a racy pre-code movie about a heroine who is a bit of a bad girl but come on, she's so cute and a girl's gotta hustle during the great depression, how can you really be mad at her? And it's Catherine the Great. It's a movie about how the Russians are barbarians and Marlene Dietrich should get to have sex with whoever she wants. I'm now convinced the whole first act of Coppola's Marie Antoinette was pulled directly from it.

[hollywood-vampires]

Chandu the Magician, 1932. Bela Lugosi features as the villainous Roxor in this film adaptation of the wildly popular radio serial. A precursor to Marvel's Doctor Strange, Chandu The Magician is the story of Frank Chandler, an American with mystic powers who helps his relatives out of nuclear-power themed scrapes. Enjoy!