Hyde), some are infamous ( Scarface, The Story of Temple Drake, the restored. Some of the selections are famous ( King Kong, The Public Enemy, Dr. Bruce Goldstein has chosen fifty of them for his new series, Essential Pre-Code, which unspools at New York City’s Film Forum beginning this Friday, July 15 and runs through August 11. Those tantalizing, uncensored early-30s titles are known to film buffs everywhere as pre-Code movies. Selznick had to fight tooth and nail to get permission for Clark Gable to say, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” at the end of Gone With the Wind. Mordaunt Hall wrote that "although it possesses its reprehensible moments, it has the saving grace of having been produced with a sense of humor." He also approved of the performances of Chatterton, Brent and Gottschalk.Wanted to deal with adult themes, and producer David O. Was made at Warners' Burbank studios, with exterior shots of Chatterton's house filmed at Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House in the Hollywood Hills. The film, which cost between $260,000 and $286,000 to make, and brought in $451,000 worldwide, Curtiz ended up with the sole screen credit.
Warner, decided he did not like an actor in the film, Wellman was not available because he had starting shooting College Coach, so Michael Curtiz was brought in to re-shoot with Johnny Mack Brown as the replacement. William Dieterle began it, and William Wellman took over to complete it when Dieterle became ill.
Her work has caused her to lose her youthful romanticism, and she has casual affairs with men, including her own employees.Īlison hosts a party at her mansion, but becomes fed up with the men out to either sell her things or marry her for her money. Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton) is the wealthy owner and hard-driving, no-nonsense head of a large automobile company, inherited from her father.