Dark City

Pre Code, Classic Horror and Film Noir dwell here, in the shadows. Hosted by MOTHGIRLWINGS

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“The Phantom Of The Opera” (1925)

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Lon Chaney, the uninvited guest - “The Phantom Of The Opera” (1925)

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Lon Chaney, his bag of tricks and just a few of his many faces - c. 1920s

London After Midnight (1927), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), and The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) .

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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

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Lon Chaney

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Will you be picking up the blog? What has happened to May, June, July, August, and September? I hope a great time was had by all but as a newcomer, I already miss your interpretations and knowledge! Peter

Awww thanks so much - I did this Tumblr for almost 10 years and I’m actually not on here very much any more.  I will try to update it from time to time though.

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Kitty Packard’s skin is far too delicate to expose in Dinner at Eight (1933)

Featuring: Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, and Billie Burke

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Marie Dressler in “Dinner At Eight” (1933)

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Marie Dressler

Dinner At Eight, (1933)

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Jean Harlow on the set of “Dinner At Eight” (1933).  Her white satin gown by Adrian was cut on the bias and so form fittting she could not sit down in it, so MGM constructed this “reclining board” so she could rest between takes.

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— Dinner At Eight (1933)

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Dinner at Eight (1933)

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Jean Harlow

Dinner At Eight - (1933)

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My Humphrey Lee Haunted

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Happy 14th Birthday to my sweet kitty who was born at Forest Lawn Cemetery

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Patrons standing in line to wait to see Frankenstein for the first time.

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1931

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Colin Clive utters blasphemy………………………………..Frankenstein (1931)

After the film was re-issued, this line was censored, in order to adhere to the Hays Code of 1934.  It was not restored until 1999.

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Trailer for Frankenstein (1931)

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Boris Karloff - Frankenstein (1931)