#warren william

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Joan Blondell as Carol King Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Dir. Mervyn LeRoy

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Smarty (1934, Robert Florey)

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Cleopatra (1934) | Dir. Cecil B. DeMille

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📽 1932: 3 on a Match (pre-Code) stars Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis and also features Lyle Talbot, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Jenkins, and Edward Arnold

• Three women who went to the same New York City elementary school (P.S. 62), Mary (Blondell), Ruth (Davis), and Vivian (Dvorak), meet again ten years later. They each light a cigarette from the same match and discuss the superstition that such an act is unlucky, and will lead to Vivian, the last to light her cigarette, being the first to die. (Warner Bros Pictures)

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Warren William was born on December 2, 1894 #botd

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Lady For a Day (Frank Capra, 1933)

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Three on a Match (1932) is a Warner Brothers, pre-code crime-drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy that stars Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William and also features Humphrey Bogart. Lyle Talbot, Edward Arnold and Allen Jenkins. Upon its release, the film received tepid to poor notices overall. Decades after its release it found more favor with the critics and film historians. In 1969, William K. Everson called it "Splendidly cut and paced...and climaxed by a real shocker." Film critic Leonard Maltin described it as a “Fine, fast-moving (and surprisingly potent) pre-code melodrama of three girls who renew childhood friendship, only to find suspense and tragedy. Dvorak is simply marvelous".

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Here are 10 things you should know about Warren William, born 131 years ago today. He enjoyed success in the theatre, pictures and radio and was the go-to actor to portray scoundrels in the pre-code era.