Ah, nice! Boris and Myrna are two of my favorites.
Besides the Thin Man movies, for the 30's, I've seen Myrna in Manhattan Melodrama (just for trivia buffs, the movie John Dillinger saw before he was shot down outside the theater), Wings in the Dark, Wife vs. Secretary, The Great Ziegfield, Libeled Lady, Double Wedding (another with William Powell), and Test Pilot.
If you had to choose to see just one of these, I'd suggest going for Libeled Lady because it's got a great cast (Loy, William Powell again, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy), and it's a terrific screwball comedy.
Boris Karloff is mostly known for his horror movies but he made many where he was only called on to play drama and a few comedies. But my favorite 30's movies of his are: The Old Dark House, The Mummy, The Lost Patrol, The Black Cat, The Raven, The Invisible Ray, The Walking Dead, and Son of Frankenstein. All are good but for the "pick just one" I go with Son of Frankenstein every time. It's my favorite of all the ones I've mentioned, and it's really my favorite of the three films where Karloff played Frankenstein's monster. It has awesome cinematography with expert use of light and shadow (the long shadows especially), great indoor sets, and the neat buildings of Frankenstein's village, humor, and my favorite Bela Lugosi performance ever, yes, even over Dracula. He's awesome as Ygor, the shepherd with the crooked neck (from a failed hanging) who controls the creature and is out for revenge. Great stuff!
Besides the Thin Man movies, for the 30's, I've seen Myrna in Manhattan Melodrama (just for trivia buffs, the movie John Dillinger saw before he was shot down outside the theater), Wings in the Dark, Wife vs. Secretary, The Great Ziegfield, Libeled Lady, Double Wedding (another with William Powell), and Test Pilot.
If you had to choose to see just one of these, I'd suggest going for Libeled Lady because it's got a great cast (Loy, William Powell again, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy), and it's a terrific screwball comedy.
Boris Karloff is mostly known for his horror movies but he made many where he was only called on to play drama and a few comedies. But my favorite 30's movies of his are: The Old Dark House, The Mummy, The Lost Patrol, The Black Cat, The Raven, The Invisible Ray, The Walking Dead, and Son of Frankenstein. All are good but for the "pick just one" I go with Son of Frankenstein every time. It's my favorite of all the ones I've mentioned, and it's really my favorite of the three films where Karloff played Frankenstein's monster. It has awesome cinematography with expert use of light and shadow (the long shadows especially), great indoor sets, and the neat buildings of Frankenstein's village, humor, and my favorite Bela Lugosi performance ever, yes, even over Dracula. He's awesome as Ygor, the shepherd with the crooked neck (from a failed hanging) who controls the creature and is out for revenge. Great stuff!
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