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2. International House

Wed Apr 19, 2017, 03:14 PM

Apr 2017

W. C. Fields at his finest. Cab Calloway singing "Reefer Man". Gracie Allen at her ditziest.

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Do you have a favorite Pre-Code movie? [View all] lapucelle Apr 2017 OP

Any of the Johnny Wissemuller and Mareen O'Sullivan "Tarzan" movies. Laffy Kat Apr 2017 #1

Maureen O'Sullivan... lapucelle Apr 2017 #5

+1 Totally agree. n/t FSogol Apr 2017 #6

International House Zorro Apr 2017 #2

I never choose "favorites" frazzled Apr 2017 #3

OG "King Kong." yallerdawg Apr 2017 #4

Second that. Still works after 84 years. n/t sarge43 Apr 2017 #7

It Happened One Night sarge43 Apr 2017 #8

Hells Angles mitch96 Apr 2017 #9

I'm going to argue that any movie lapucelle Apr 2017 #10

Jean Harlow / tangentially sexy mitch96 Apr 2017 #14

wasn't Betty Boop a really saucy cartoon from that era? rurallib Apr 2017 #11

She was DEF sexier precode that post.. annabanana Apr 2017 #16

Betty Boop was definitely pre-code.....and still politically incorrect LongTomH Apr 2017 #17

Pre-Code Norma Shearer HeiressofBickworth Apr 2017 #12

Barbara Stanwyck in "Baby Face." Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2017 #13

Of the ones that I've seen: Scarface and Diary of a Lost Girl LeftInTX Apr 2017 #15

"Night Nurse" with Barbra Stanwyk and Clark Gable It's a hoot! mucifer Apr 2017 #18