Citizen's Top 62, 1930s Actors & Actresses

Thank you Ed - just rechecked and it appears you are correct, due to the nature of the upload and initial frames I mistakenly assumed it would be some sort of dubbed Russian language presentation of the fillum but it's actually subtitled. Ah well, no matter my lack of intelligence I am at least trying to participate - I shall give it a re-squint today

edit: for anybody else interested (if anybody aside from Ed and myself is actually watching anything that is) the intertitles on this YT one are all in cyrillic language and the copy does suffer from a few instances of missing frames but it's watchable and a fun enough romp.

that is good to hear. Was trying to find some time to check it out.

As long as you've been a member here, Citizen, you've never done a countdown before?

Nope, never.

Watched another 30s Richard Colman outing today - The Light That Failed .... as the lead he's mainly decent in it but imo the accolades for this one undoubtedly belong to Ida Lupino (who surely has to be on this list at some point so I've already got this one in the bag lol). Just thought I'd mention it and by way of doing so handily bump the thread.

By the way @Citizen Rules - any chance you could add a list in the first post of those actors and actresses who have shown up thus far (in much the same way as the site-wide countdowns do) ... I think it would be helpful to those that might not be participating now but might later use this as an aide for any 30s watching they might do.

Hey Chyp thanks for the bump I really need to get back to this countdown. And I haven't forgot it, it's just that work has been all consuming. In fact I have like a few more minutes and I have to hit the ole grinding wheel!

Good idea about the actors/actresses list on the 1st page, I will do I haven't heard of The Light That Failed, I'll have to see that for Ida Lupino. Right now I don't remember if she is on my list or not? It's been that long since I looked at it. She's certainly note worthy, it just depends on her work in the 1930s. I guess we'll both be surprised to find out

My #25 Favorite 30's Actress is

I've only seen a few of Loretta Young's movies from the 1930s, but it's been a while, so I'll probably rewatch these two movies, and her movies that you recommended, before the countdown.

Platinum Blonde (1931)

Born to Be Bad (1934) - Sadly, this is one of my least favorite Cary Grant movies.

Hey, would you believe it Loretta Young was in The Stolen Jools so I've already checked this one off and can just go down the pub for a few pints now

Seriously though, I watched Café Metropole earlier this month - plot is a little flimsy but it's a nice easy watch with decent performances. I'm hoping to get a few more of hers in before the countdown, depending on availability of course so I'll report back as and when I do.

And I should add my most humble and sincere apologies to @gbgoodies as of course there are at least a triumvirate of us watching fare for both this thread and the 30s countdown. I can assure I have firmly chastised the aberrant memory cell responsible for such a glaring and unforgivable omission - it most definitely will not do it again (safe to say as it's already dead lol).

Gave her Private Number an airing this morning, a little odd in it's mix of tones (and undertones) but an entertaining enough watch with a decent performance from Ms. Young though Mr. Rathbone plays the stand-out character in proceedings. Worth a watch for anyone considering which of her 30s works to give a look imo.

I've seen Platinum Blonde I should add that to the list, good movie. Jean Harlow is pretty good in that one too. I've never seen the Cary Grant film, that I know of?

Ha! I swear just about every actor/actress that I looked up for this countdown has been in The Stolen Jools.

Gosh, I hope I remembered Basil Rathbone for this countdown? I usually like his roles. I'll have to check out Private Number, I'm pretty sure I never seen that one.

Haven't been posting in here much because i haven't seen anything of most of these. Loretta Young is another i haven't seen anything by, but i do have a film on my watchlist i've heard good things about that's not on your mentioned films: Heroes For Sale. Heard it's very cynical and politically brave for its time, guess i'll have to watch it and find out why.

There'll be a rather large Tsk tsk! coming from this direction if you have missed him off

j/k - it's your list

I've not heard of that one, but not surprised as she made an insane amount of films in the 1930s. How many? I don't know, but there's like this long list of movies of hers. Mostly I haven't seen them, but unusually they put her in decent films.

58 according to Letterboxd, some of those could be short films though.

Heroes For Sale is from William Wellman who made Wings and The Ox Bow Incident that i know you're a fan of, so i'd say it's worth checking out. Don't think i've heard of any of the other actors in it, it's blurb on Letterboxd:

Sounds kinda like Best Years of Our Lives.

Another 30s movie ticked off for me ..... Three Blind Mice - a comedy romance that was never gonna set the world alight but is a pleasant enough watch with Ms. Young giving a nice enough performance as the lead, ably supported by both David Niven (who possibly won't appear on these lists) and Joel McCrae (who I suspect might well do).

Sorry, sorry, sorry! I haven't been able to update this (been real busy!)
Two more entries are coming up in a few minutes.

My #24 Favorite 1930's Actor is

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All i've seen Rooney in is The Simpsons: