Posts tagged ‘King Kong’

Frank and Kong

A couple of sample entries from my book, Monster Movies: FRANKENSTEIN (dir. James Whale, USA, 1931) When Mary Shelley first penned Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus) in 1818 as part of a literary parlour game with her husband and Lord Byron, she could not have fathomed the ‘monster’ she had created. Her story became the [...]

Cavalcade (1932-1933)

Director: Frank Lloyd Producer: Winfield Sheehan Based on a Play by: Noel Coward Screenplay: Reginald Berkeley Starring: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor & Herbert Mundin Fellow Nominees: 42nd Street – dir. Lloyd Bacon, prod. Darryl F. Zanuck A Farewell to Arms – dir. Frank Borzage, prod. Adolph Zukor I am a Fugitive from A [...]

Grand Hotel (1931-1932)

Director: Edmund Goulding Producer: Irving Thalberg Based on a Novel by: Vicki Baum Screenplay: William A. Drake Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford & Wallace Beery Fellow Nominees: Arrowsmith – dir. John Ford, prod. Samuel Goldwyn Bad Girl – dir. Frank Borzage, prod. Winfield Sheehan The Champ – dir. & prod. King [...]

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