#Pre-Code Classics

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Showgirls pose with a prop airplane for the pre-code musical Flying Down to Rio (dir. Thornton Freeland, 1933)

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PS ARTBOOKS PRE-CODE CLASSICS: WEIRD MYSTERIES PART 2

Horror Mike has had his second part of his look at PRE-CODE CLASSICS: WEIRD MYSTERIES for about a month. I've been unable to promote it due to writing deadlines. If you're looking for both volumes of PRE-CODE CLASSICS: WEIRD MYSTERIES which have introductions written by myself, they are still available at https://www.psartbooks.com/pcc-weird-mysteries.php for an economical price. Listings on eBay tend to be expensive for the books, but maybe you can find a bargain there, too.

Special thanks to Horror Mike for letting me ramble on via e-mail about my work on WEIRD MYSTERIES and for PS Artbooks. Extra special thanks to Peter and Nicky Crowther and all the PS Artbooks gang for giving me the opportunity to work on the WEIRD MYSTERIES essays. The greatest, most special thanks, dedication and love to my wife Laura. Without her inspiration and encouragement, none of this would be possible.

Until next Time, I wish you...

All The Best,

James Heath Lantz

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Clara Bow in the 1927 silent film Hula.

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Barbara Stanwyck as Kitty Lane SHOPWORN (1932) dir. Nick Grinde

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Not even Norma Shearer or Helen Hayes in their nicest pictures were spoken to like that.

Franchot Tone and Jean Harlow in Bombshell (1933)

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every 1930s movie watched (38 - ∞)

King Kong (1933) dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes, it was Beauty killed the beast!

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Anna May Wong in Daughter of the Dragon (1931) Dir. Lloyd Corrigan

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Barbara Stanwyck in William Wellman’s THE PURCHASE PRICE (1932)

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This Day in Buster…April 10, 1921 The Buffalo Times says of “Hard Luck”: “Never a smile does Buster allow to wreath his face and his seriousness is always screamingly funny.”

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Buster Keaton and Sally Eilers in "Doughboys," 1930

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Lupe Vélez photographed by Hal Phyfe for her film Hot Pepper (1933)

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Miriam Hopkins in Fast and Loose (1930)

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Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (1930)

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George Raft and Sylvia Sidney in Pick Up, 1933.

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White Zombie (1932)

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Josef von Sternberg’s SHANGHAI EXPRESS, starring Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Clive Brook, celebrated its U.S. premiere in Los Angeles #OnThisDay in 1932.