Show threadDr. Dani Sanchez1d ago
Next up is “The Stolen Jools” (1931) (https://youtu.be/Y0GSQpZu7AQ?si=IZS5wvGAuq9ea9u-) which is stuffed with some of the biggest stars of the stage & screen of the 1920s and early 1930s to raise funds for the National Vaudeville Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium
#RetroView #PreCodeApril #TheStolenJools #PreCode
Show threadDr. Dani Sanchez1d ago
This print of “The Hot Spot” (1931) was restored from the only known 16mm copy
#RetroView #TheHotSpot #PreCodeApril #PreCode #FrankMcHugh
Dr. Dani Sanchez1d ago
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from #SilentFilm & #PreCode -era films it’s that folx got publically rowdy and destructive quickly and at the drop of a hat!
#RetroView #TheHotSpot
Dr. Dani Sanchez1d ago

<5mins in and we’ve hit most of the Frank McHugh comedy tropes:

Playing a reporter or clergy or general degenerate ✅
The patented Frank McHugh Laugh™️✅
Kind of a dope ✅
#RetroView #PreCodeApril #TheHotSpot #FrankMcHugh #PreCode

Dr. Dani Sanchez1d ago
First up is “The Hot Spot” (1931) (https://youtu.be/TJerjayJnJ0?si=p5W48ZomKRY41dCx) which was one of a series of comedy shorts Frank McHugh made for RKO in the early 1930s
#RetroView #PreCodeApril #TheHotSpot #FrankMcHugh #PreCode
Dr. Dani Sanchez2d ago
“Havana Widows” (1933) in summation:
#MusComEnt #HavanaWidows #PreCodeApril #PreCode
Dr. Dani Sanchez2d ago
#PreCode films: (near) nudity for everyone… even Guy Kibbee 🥴
#MusComEnt #HavanaWidows
Show threadDr. Dani Sanchez2d ago
And the man of the hour: Frank McHugh (May 23, 1898 – Sept. 11, 1981), who was from a theatrical family. He struck out on his own in 1930 and quickly made his way into film & later TV, where he easily cornered the market on being the (often tipsy) comic relief
#MusComEnt #PreCodeApril #FrankMcHugh #PreCode
Dr. Dani Sanchez2d ago
“Havana Widows” (1933) is the first of 5 films centered around the “Blonde Bombshell” comedy duo of Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, who were WB’s answer to Hal Roach’s female comedy pair Zasu Pitts & Thelma Todd
#MusComEnt #PreCodeApril #JoanBlondell #GlendaFarrell #PreCode
Dr. Dani Sanchez2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/116400447546036723

⏰ONE HOUR⏰ until #MusComEnt honors one of the unsung character actors of the #PreCode era: Frank McHugh (info⤵️)