I’ve written before about my unhealthy predilection for comedy teams of the 30s and 40s, and not just good comedy teams. I revel in the weird and woefully misguided teams that were just plain bad. […]
Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) is the definitive film version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It’s also a stunning piece of cinema featuring innovative […]
If you’ve followed the Retro Set over the past few years, you’re probably aware of the individual (and mutual) obsessions that consume our editorial team. Aside from a shared love of all things classic Hollywood, […]
We love Warner Archive Instant and so should you! This week our Must Watch Warner Archive picks has our Creative Director Wade Sheeler fan-boying on Tiki culture with Honolulu (1939), Senior Editor Jill Blake swooning over […]
“Folks, now here’s a story ’bout Minnie the Moocher … she was a red-hot hoochie-coocher …” With her somewhat inauspicious debut in 1930’s Dizzy Dishes, Betty Boop became the most unlikely of stars. Initially drawn as a […]
We love Warner Archive Instant and so should you! Where else can you find Marion Davies skewering the Hollywood star machine with a cavalcade of silent film cameos and William Wellman declaring war on the American justice […]
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