Mary Astor News

"He had a long bony jaw," Gores writes, "a flexible mouth, a jutting chin... He was six feet tall with broad, steeply sloping shoulders." Yet that non-Bogart figure is exactly true to the original Spade, as created by Dashiell Hammett.

Self-Styled Siren pays tribute to one of classic Hollywood's greatest odd couples , Sydney Greenstreet, he of the Edmund Wilson helium-filled, patrician girth, and Peter Lorre.

Six films' worth of pre-Code goodness, from the TCM Archives. I'm a naughty boy for having such a fondness for pre-Hays Code Hollywood pictures.

Studio: Warner Home Video Year: 1932-33 Cast: Mary Astor, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, George Barnet, Lyle Talbot, Loretta Young Director: William A. Wellman Release Date: March 31, 2009 Rating: Not Rated for Run Time: 07h:01m:46s Genre : compilation Six films' worth of pre-Code goodness, from the TCM Archives.

Other Men's Women 1931 // 70 Minutes // Not Rated Frisco Jenny 1932 // 70 Minutes // Not Rated The Purchase Price 1932 // 68 Minutes // Not Rated Heroes For Sale 1933 // 71 Minutes // Not Rated Midnight Mary 1933 // 74 Minutes // Not Rated Wild Boys Of The Road 1933 // 68 Minutes // Not Rated Released by Warner Bros.

The Edison Theatre at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, California is one of the best places in the Bay Area to see silent and early sound films.

Here's a disparate batch of movies new to DVD, led by a third collection of pre-Production Code films that were quite adult for their time.

Forbidden Hollywood: Volume Three is a great set of pre-Code classics directed by "Wild Bill" William Wellman who cranked out 21 films in four years in the early 30s while working for Warner Brothers -- everything from tough minded melodramas to socially conscious dramas.

Hollywood's salacious past keeps catching up with it. Two more sets of saucy classics from the early 1930s, before Hollywood began policing itself with its rigid Production Code, are bound for DVD in the coming weeks.

March 2 Sign-up starts for our Book Lovers' Club, a reading program for adults. Library cardholders 19 and older can sign up for a chance to win one of our great prizes just by reading books.

For Immediate Release TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three: William Wellman at Warner Bros.

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume 3 on 24th March 2009 priced at $49.92 SRP.