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The Broadway Melody 1929 3 stars

    N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Musical / Romance
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson, Mary Doran, Eddie Kane, James Gleason

  This film captured the Oscar for Best Picture. Cole Porter songs are the backdrop for two vaudeville sisters (Anita Page and Bessie Love) who are in love with the same man. Nominations also went to Bessie Love and Director Harry Beaumont.

Dance, Fools, Dance 1931 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, Lester Vail, William Bakewell, William(2) Holden, Clark Gable, Earle Foxe, Purnell Pratt, Hale Hamilton, Natalie Moorhead

  Ex-socialite Bonnie (Joan Crawford) is a newspaperwoman who is assigned an undercover job to get to the bottom of a murder.

Enchanted April 1935 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Ann Harding, Frank Morgan, Katharine Alexander, Reginald Owen, Jane Baxter, Ralph Forbes, Jessie Ralph, Charles Judels, Rafaela Ottiano, Ethel Griffies, May Beatty, Inez Palange, Gwendolyn Logan, Hector Samo

  This is a good rendition of Elizabeth von Arnim's novel about two English women–Lottie Wilkins (Ann Harding) and Rose Arbuthnot (Katherine Alexander)–who have had enough of their husbands and take off for a vacation and a better life. They rent a castle overlooking the Mediterranean in San Salvatore, Italy. Joining them in Italy are Mrs. Fisher (Jessie Ralph) and Lady Caroline (Jane Baxter). Now, the four ladies spend their month together supposedly free from their husbands–but not without complications. Remade in 1992.

The Great Lover 1931 2 stars

    N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Irene Dunne, Ernest Torrence, Neil Hamilton, Olga Baclanova, Cliff Edwards, Roscoe Ates

  An opera star (Adolphe Menjou) finally learns the pain he has inflicted on jilted lovers when his own lover (Irene Dunne) walks out on him because she prefers a younger man.

Laughing Sinners 1931 2 stars

    N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau, Guy Kibbee, Cliff Edwards, Roscoe Karns, Johnny Mack Brown

  Nightclub performer Ivy (Joan Crawford) is saved from a near suicide by Salvation Army worker Carl (Clark Gable), who convinces her to start life anew–until her past lover, Howard Palmer (Neil Hamilton), appears back on the scene.

Our Blushing Brides 1930 2 stars

    N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Joan Crawford, Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian, Robert Montgomery, Raymond Hackett, John Miljan, Hedda Hopper, Albert Conti, Edward Brophy, Louise Beavers

  Sales girls Jerry (Joan Crawford), Connie (Anita Page), and Franky (Dorothy Sebastian) seek rich husbands in this rather unconvincing–and dated–drama.

Our Dancing Daughters 1928 3 stars

    N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Anita Page, Nils Asther, Kathlyn Williams, Edward J. Nugent

  Champagne and the Charleston reign in this "Roaring 20s" story about Diana Medford (Joan Crawford) who is in love with the husband of her friend.

When Ladies Meet 1933 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Strange Skirts

Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Luis Alberni, Sterling Holloway, Martin Burton, David Newell, Charles Winninger

  A publisher and authoress, along with their spouses, spend a weekend together, and the two women discuss one's novel, which parallels the other's adventures as a member of upper-class society. Remade in 1941.

Movie Quick Pick

1. The Broadway Melody (1929)
2. Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
3. Enchanted April (1935)
4. The Great Lover (1931)
5. Laughing Sinners (1931)
6. Our Blushing Brides (1930)
7. Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
8. When Ladies Meet (1933)
aka: Strange Skirts

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