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Forgotten Pre-Codes: "Stage Mother" (1933)

30 November 2011 8:56 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

Part of a series by David Cairns on forgotten pre-Code films. 

Alice Brady said of her face: "It skids, that's the trouble with it. It needs chains. Just when I'm trying to be serious on the screen the thing skids, and I'm doing a tragic scene with a comic face. Look at it. I've often seen those little blonde babes around here giving me the once over. I'm sure they wonder how a face like that fits into pictures."

Stage Mother (1933) offers Brady, best remembered perhaps as the ditzy mom in My Man Godfrey (with Mischa Auer as her louche live-in lover), one of her rare dramatic roles, and she manages to keep her wonky face on the road throughout. With her unlikely, low voice, wide smile and indescribable cackle, Brady has a repertoire of grotesque traits to dazzle the viewer, but she also has an innate sympathy which she »

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Off-Broadway Babble-on

8 October 2011 8:23 PM, PDT | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »

 C.S. Hanson: Charles Winn Speaks Directed by Lynn M. Thomson Living Arts Theater Company Cherry Lane Studio Theater

In Charles Winn Speaks,actor Christopher Kipiniak certainly speaks and speaks and speaks. The play consists of four acts, played with no intermission: two long monologs, followed a scene with another character, followed by a brief concluding monolog. In short, Charles Winn does a whole lotta speaking, and for the most part, engagingly so.

Christopher Kipiniak rattles on as Charles Winn, mostly solo for a full ninety minutes in his authentic Russian accent. Classic film aficionados would know this accent from the Russian actor Mischa Auer, who played supporting roles in films which ranged from Hellzapoppin' to Destry Rides Again. When he would appear on the screen, I would endure his grating voice until the stars of the film took over (luckily he was never the star). When it was apparent »

- Jay Reisberg

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Carole Lombard on TCM: My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred, The Racketeer

28 August 2011 5:09 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Carole Lombard Best remembered for her light comedies of the '30s and early '40s, Carole Lombard is Turner Classic Movies Star of the Day on Sunday, August 28, as TCM's continues its "Summer Under the Stars" film series. Unfortunately, TCM isn't showing any hard-to-find Carole Lombard movies. So, don't expect Swing High, Swing Low; We're Not Dressing; the eminently dreadful (and compulsively watchable) White Woman; I Take This Woman; Up Pops the Devil; It Pays to Advertise, Power, etc. [Carole Lombard Movie Schedule.] Having said that, TCM did show the lesser-known Virtue (1932) and Brief Moment (1933) earlier today, and will be showing The Racketeer (1929) later this evening. Directed by the all but completely forgotten Howard Higgin, The Racketeer is a crime melodrama that features future King Kong semi-villain Robert Armstrong. Chances are The Racketeer will turn out to be nothing more than a historical curiosity — but that's not a bad thing at all. First, »

- Andre Soares

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