 The Bohemian Girl 1936  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James W. Horne
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Antonio Moreno, Julie Bishop, Darla Hood, Mae Busch, James Finlayson, Thelma Todd, Zeffie Tilbury, James C. Morton
Laurel and Hardy play 18th-century Gypsies who kidnap Princess Arline (Darla Hood) and teach her the tricks of their pickpocketing trade.
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The Devil's Brother 1933  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Bogus Bandits
Fra Diavolo
The Virtuous Tramps
Director: Hal Roach
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd, James Finlayson, Lucile Browne, Arthur Pierson, Henry Armetta, Lane Chandler, Matt McHugh
Looking for potential victims, a thief (Dennis King) pretends to be a marquis in order to get closer to the action. Laurel and Hardy play his inept assistants in this comedy/operetta.
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 Horse Feathers 1932  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, David Landau, Florine McKinney, Nat Pendleton, James Pierce, Robert Greig
The Marx Brothers are at their very funniest in this film about a college dean (Groucho) who is determined to have a winning football season after years of being on the losing end.
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Klondike 1932  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Thelma Todd, Lyle Talbot, Frank Hawks, Henry B. Walthall, Jason Robards Sr., Priscilla Dean, Tully Marshall, Pat O'Malley, George "Gabby" Hayes, Myrtle Stedman, Ethel Wales, Earl Dwire, Lafe McKee, Henry Hall
After one of his patients dies following surgery, Dr. Cromwell (Lyle Talbot) is tried for murder and acquitted. Needing a break, he joins his friend Donald Evans (Frank Hawks) on a flight to Alaska where they are forced to make an emergency landing. Evans is killed, but Cromwell is saved and nursed back to health by Klondike (Thelma Todd) with whom he falls in love. But, Klondike is engaged to Jim Armstrong (Jason Robards Sr.) who needs an operation to save his life. Now, Cromwell faces a dilemma: if he does perform the surgery and succeeds, will he be handing Jim back to Klondike?
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 The Maltese Falcon 1931 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Dangerous Female
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Bebe Daniels, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, J. Farrell MacDonald, Oscar Apfel, Thelma Todd, Walter Long, Dwight Frye
Although not as popular as the Humphrey Bogart version 10 years later, this first (of three) filming of Dashiell Hammett's story, is good. Private Eye Sam Spade (Ricardo Cortez) takes a case for Ruth (Bebe Daniels), whose sister is missing. Ultimately, it becomes a case of looking for a valuable statuette (with others also in pursuit) and pursuing the murderer of his partner. The 1936 version is titled "Satan Met a Lady."
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 Monkey Business 1931 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, Tom Kennedy, Harry Woods, Ruth Hall, Ben Taggart, Rockliffe Fellowes
The Marx Brothers stow away on an ocean liner. In this, one of their best films, they do great impersonations of Maurice Chevalier.
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Palooka 1934 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Joe Palooka
The Great Schnozzle
Director: Benjamin Stoloff
Cast: Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Rambeau, Robert Armstrong, Mary Carlisle, William Cagney, Thelma Todd, Franklyn Ardell, Tom Dugan, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Louise Beavers, Fred "Snowflake" Toones, Stanley Fields
Fight manager Knobby Walsh (Jimmy Durante) signs up farmboy Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin) as a boxer and trains him for a big fight with hard-drinking champ Al "Mac" McSwatt (William Cagney– brother of James Cagney). In this film, Durante sings his song, "Ink-a-Dinka-do."
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Sitting Pretty 1933 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Harry Joe Brown
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Thelma Todd, Gregory Ratoff, Lew Cody, Jerry Tucker, Hale Hamilton, Walter Walker, Kenneth Thomson
Struggling songwriters (Jack Oakie and Jack Haley) hit the big time in Hollywood.
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Speak Easily 1932 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn, Thelma Todd, Hedda Hopper, William Pawley, Sidney Toler, Lawrence Grant, Henry Armetta, Edward Brophy, DeWitt Jenninsg, Oscar Apfel, Sidney Bracey, Fred Kelsey, Inez Palange
Professor Timoleon Zanders Post (Buster Keaton) has inherited a fortune and decides to enjoy life when he meets and falls in love with a dancer, Eleanor Espere (Thelma Todd). So, he buys her show–including the piano player Jimmy Dodge (Jimmy Durante)–and plans to bring it to Broadway. But, does he have the ability to carry off his plan?
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This Is the Night 1932 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Lili Damita, Roland Young, Charles Ruggles, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant, Irving Bacon, Claire Dodd, Davison Clark, Gino Corrado, Rolfe Sedan
In this feature film debut of Cary Grant, romantic intrigue and pretensions go awry. A bachelor (Roland Young) tries to lure the husband (Cary Grant) of the woman he is attracted to into the arms of another.
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| 1. The Bohemian Girl (1936)
2. Broadminded (1931)
3. The Devil's Brother (1933)
aka: Bogus Bandits
aka: Fra Diavolo
aka: The Virtuous Tramps
4. Horse Feathers (1932)
5. Klondike (1932)
6. The Maltese Falcon (1931)
aka: Dangerous Female
7. Monkey Business (1931)
8. Palooka (1934)
aka: Joe Palooka
aka: The Great Schnozzle
9. Sitting Pretty (1933)
10. Speak Easily (1932)
11. This Is the Night (1932)
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