#Lloyd Bacon

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Footlight Parade | 1933

#Footlight Parade #Busby Berkeley #Ruby Keeler #Lloyd Bacon #cats #cat #dancing #wink #surreal #hammersmith horror

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Footlight Parade (1933)

#footlight parade #30s musicals #30s movies #pre-code hollywood #30s pinup girls #vintage lobby cards #lloyd bacon #busby berkeley #1930s #1933

[thebarroomortheboy]

42nd Street (1933) | dir. Lloyd Bacon 

#1930's cinema #1930's #1933 #42nd street #lloyd bacon #ruby keeler #dick powell #classic hollywood #classic film #classicfilmsource #filmedit #filmgifs #classicfilmgifs #comedyedit #comedygifs #dramagifs #dramaedit #musical #musicaledit #musicalgifs #romancegifs #mygifs #chorus girls #gala premiere

[fibula-rasa]

Miss Pinkerton (1932)  

[letterboxd | imdb]

Director: Lloyd Bacon

Cinematographer: Barney McGill

Performers: George Brent & Joan Blondell

#1930s #1932 #Joan Blondell #George Brent #Lloyd Bacon #american film #classic film #classic movies #film #my gifs #pre code movies #pre code #pre code film #pre code hollywood #classic cinema #film gifs #filmblr

[boydswan]

Ann Sheridan in SAN QUENTIN (1937) dir. Lloyd Bacon

#ann sheridan #san quentin #san quentin 1937 #lloyd bacon #classicfilmsource #mine

[scenephile]

Be so swell that you'll make me hate you.

#42nd street #lloyd bacon #bebe daniels #Dorothy Brock #ruby keeler #Peggy Sawyer #chorus girls #broadway shows #musical #pre code hollywood #pre code film #precode movies #scenephile #movie quotes #film quotes #movie scenes #movie scene #film scene

[framesdump]

42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon & Busby Berkeley, 1933)

#42nd street #lloyd bacon #busby berkeley #1933 #c

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#Larceny Inc. #Edward G. Robinson #Jane Wyman #Broderick Crawford #Jack Carson #Anthony Quinn #Lloyd Bacon #1942

[hellostarrynightblr]

James Cagney and Joan Blondell in Footlight Parade (1933)

#1933 #1930s #comedy #musical #lloyd bacon #footlight parade #joan blondell #james cagney #jimmy cagney

[jamesfranciiscagney]

The Oklahoma Kid (1939)

#the oklahoma kid #lloyd bacon #mine #western cagney is <3

[gatutor]

Marion Davies-Clark Gable "Cain and Mabel" 1936, de Lloyd Bacon.

#Marion Davies #Clark Gable #Lloyd Bacon

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Footlight Parade | 1933

#Footlight Parade #Joan Blondell #Claire Dodd #Lloyd Bacon #gtfo #goodbye #bye #scram #slam the door #hammersmith horror #adiós #Au revoir #ciao #さようなら #नमस्ते #Auf Wiedersehen #안녕 #frenemy

[thejazzera]

Lloyd Bacon, "Footlight Parade" 1933

"Footlight Parade", directed by Lloyd Bacon, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, 1933.

#Lloyd Bacon #Busby Berkeley #1930s #movies #art deco #dance

[byneddiedingo]

42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)

Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, Ginger Rogers, George Brent, Ned Sparks. Screenplay: Rian James, James Seymour, based on a novel by Bradford Ropes. Cinematography: Sol Polito. Art direction: Jack Okey. Film editing: Thomas Pratt, Frank Ware. Songs: Al Dubin, Harry Warren. Costume design: Orry-Kelly. Choreography: Busby Berkeley.  42nd Street is only mildly naughty, bawdy, or sporty, as the lyrics of Al Dubin and Harry Warren's title song would have it, but once Busby Berkeley takes over to stage the three production numbers at the movie's end, it is certainly gaudy. What naughtiness and bawdiness it contains would not have been there at all once the Production Code went into effect a year or so later. It's doubtful that Ginger Rogers's character would have been called "Anytime Annie" once the censors clamped down, or that anyone would say of her, "She only said 'no' once and then she didn't hear the question." Or that it would be so clear that Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels) is the mistress of foofy old moneybags Abner Dillon (Guy Kibbee). Or that there would be so many crotch shots of the chorus girls, including the famous tracking shot between their legs in Busby Berkeley's "Young and Healthy" number. Although it's often remembered as a Busby Berkeley musical, it's mostly a Lloyd Bacon movie, and while Bacon is not a name to conjure with these days, he does a splendid job of keeping the non-musical part of the film moving along satisfactorily. It helps that he has a strong lead in Warner Baxter as the tough, self-destructive stage director Julian Marsh, balanced by such skillful wisecrackers as Rogers, Una Merkel, and Ned Sparks. But it's a blessing that this archetypal backstage musical became a prime showcase for Berkeley's talents. Dick Powell's sappy tenor has long been out of fashion, and Ruby Keeler keeps anxiously glancing at her feet while she's dancing, but Berkeley's sleight-of-hand keeps our attention away from their faults. Nor does anyone really care that his famous overhead shots that turn dancers into kaleidoscope patterns would not be visible to an audience in a real theater. In the "42nd Street" number, Berkeley also introduces his characteristic dark side: Amid all the song and dance celebrating the street, we witness a near-rape and a murder. It's a dramatic twist that Berkeley would repeat with even greater effect in his masterpiece, the "Lullaby of Broadway" number from Gold Diggers of 1935. Berkeley's serious side, along with the somewhat downbeat ending showing an exhausted Julian Marsh, alone and ignored amid the hoopla, help remind us that the studio that made 42nd Street, Warner Bros., was also known for social problem movies like I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) and the gangster classics of James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and Edward G. Robinson.

#42nd Street #Lloyd Bacon

[fibula-rasa]

Miss Pinkerton (1932)  

[letterboxd | imdb]

Director: Lloyd Bacon

Cinematographer: Barney McGill

Performers: George Brent, John Ray, Joan Blondell, Mary Doran, Elizabeth Patterson, & C. Henry Gordon

#1930s #1932 #joan blondell #george brent #Lloyd Bacon #american film #classic film #classic movies #film #my gifs #pre code #pre code hollywood #pre code film #pre code movies #film gifs #classic cinema #classicfilmblr #cinematography

[boydswan]

SAN QUENTIN (1937) dir. Lloyd Bacon

#humphrey bogart #san quentin #san quentin 1937 #lloyd bacon #bogie in 30s - a sum up #lol #here am I queue me #classicfilmsource #mine