Tag: pre-code

April 7, 2016 / Vickie Lester

Jean Harlow – Dinner at Eight

A defining role: Reading sides on a leaning board. Jean Harlow chats with visiting director Edmund Goulding. To her left is cast member Edmund Lowe and director George Cukor. Photograph by George Hurrell of Jean Harlow in a gown by Adrian designed for “Dinner at Eight”.

October 27, 2015 / Vickie Lester

“Learn your lines, find your mark, look ’em in the eye and tell ’em the truth.” James Cagney

Cagney played a supporting role to Edward G. Robinson’s lead – I’ve never seen it but there’s supposed to be some pre-code naughtiness – a Warner Bros. gangster film from 1931 – when they used real gunfire on set. I shudder to think.

May 4, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Dinner at Eight — I wonder what Carlotta would have made of Google Glass?

Kitty: I was reading a book the other day. Carlotta: Reading a book? Kitty: Yes. It’s all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession? Carlotta: Oh, my dear, that’s…

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May 4, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The original Platinum Blonde in black, Jean Harlow

January 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

While I’m waiting for the publishers, I’ll just gab…

You know, this thing struck me about blogging recently… It’s made me have more faith in people, not less. I’ve always been the kind of person who tends toward suspicion, even as a child. I remember going to work with my father one day, I think I was about twelve,…

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