Female. Blessed event. Ladies they talk about. Three on a match. Skyscraper souls. Employees' entrance.
Notes:
Title from disc labels and container. Female was suggested from a story by Donald Henderson Clark. Blessed event is based on the play by Manuel Seff and Forrest Wilson. Ladies they talk about is based on a play by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles. Skyscraper souls is from the book Skyscraper, by Faith Baldwin. Employees' entrance is base on a play by David Boehm. Originally produced as six individual motion pictures between 1932 and 1933. "ML104509"--Disc labels and container. Female: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Johnny Mack Brown, Ruth Donnelly, Ferdinand Gottschalk. Blessed event: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Emma Dunn, Edwin Maxwell, Ned Sparks, Walter Walker, Frank McHugh. Ladies they talk about: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston S. Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Lillian Roth, Maude Eburne, Ruth Donnelly, Harold Huber, Robert McWade. Three on a match: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Dawn O'Day, Ann Dvorak, Betty Carse, Bette Davis, Warren William, Lyle Talbot, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Jenkins, Edward Arnold. Skyscraper souls: Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page, Verree Teasdale, Norman Foster, George Barbier, Jean Hersholt. Employees' entrance: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, Alice White, Hale Hamilton, Albert Grand, Marjorie Gateson, Ruth Donnelly, Frank Reicher, Charles Sellon.
Contents:
sides 1-2. Female (1933, ca. 60 min.) / First National Pictures [and] Vitaphone present; directed by Michael Curtiz; screen play by Gene Markey & Kathryn Scola -- sides 2-3. Blessed event (1922, ca. 84 min.) / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corp. present; directed by Roy Del Ruth; screen play by howard Green -- sides 3-4. Ladies they talk about (1933, ca. 69 min.) / Warner Bros. Pictures & the Vitaphone Corp. present; directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley; screen play by Brown Holmes, William McGrath, & Sidney Sutherland -- sides 4-5. Three on a match (1932, ca. 68 min.) / First National Pictures [and] Vitaphone present; directed by Mervyn LeRoy; screen play by Lucien Hubbard; story by Kubec Glasmon & John Bright -- sides 5-7. Skyscraper souls (1932, ca. 99 min.) / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents; a Cosmopolitan production; directed by Edgar Selwyn; adapted by C. Gardner Sullivan -- sides 7-8. Employees' entrance (1932, ca. 75 min.) / First National Pictures [and] Vitaphone present; directed by Roy Del Ruth; screen play by Robert Presnell.
Summary:
A collection of six films made before the Hays Office and the Motion Picture Production Code were in full force, spotlighting Hollywood's embrace of that period's looser morals and anything goes attitudes. This release includes theatrical trailers for Female, Blessed event, and Ladies they talk about.
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