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About the Palace…

Commentary
Original articles on Hollywood, and the great Classic films

Bibliography
Sources for Moderntimes Classic Film Pages, and further reading

Selected Film Images…

Film Noir
Illustrating the great American style

Nineteen Twenties
Images from the Great Silent era

Nineteen Forties
World War II, and the extraordinary Post-War period

Nineteen Fifties
The decline and fall of the crumbling studio system

Additional Pages…

Moderntimes
Classic Film Pages

Screwball Comedy
A definition of the Classic genre

Rico's End
A Ttribute to Edward G. Robinson

Ball of Fire
For the great Barbara Stanwyck

Midnight Ramble
The American Negro in early Hollywood

Charles Chaplin
Images and commentary on some key Chaplin films

The Bees
The magic of the second feature

Recommended Links…

A Tribute to Humphrey Bogart
The Best Bogart page on the Web

Carol Lombard
Another beautiful Mary Murphy site

A Pretty Grim Life, Actually
Cool article on Frank Capra

Viv and Larry Dot Com
Kendra's beautiful site, celebrating Vivien Leigh, and Laurence Olivier

Preston Sturges
The Official Site, extremely cool

Alec Guinness
Mary Murphy's tribute

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Visitor Comments

Anna Christie
MGM 1930

Greta Garbo, George Marion

Animal Crackers
Paramount 1930

The Marx Brothers

The Blue Angel
UFA (Germany) 1930

Marlene Dietrich

Hells Angels
Fox 1930

Ben Lyon, James Hall

The Front Page
RKO Howard Hughes 1931

Adolphe Menjou, Mary Brian, Pat O'Brien

M
Nero Films (Germany) 1931

Peter Lorre

Blonde Venus
Paramount 1932

Sidney Toler, Marlene Dietrich

Grand Hotel
MGM (Irving Thalerg) 1932

Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford

I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Warner Brothers 1932

Paul Muni, David Landau

Red Dust
MGM 1932

Jean Harlow, Clark Gable

Scarface
Howard Hughes 1932

Vince Barnett, Paul Muni

Dancing Lady
MGM 1933

Joan Crawford

Dinner at Eight
MGM 1933

Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow

It Happened One Night
Columbia 1934

Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert

Little Miss Marker
Paramount 1934

Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou

The Thin Man >
MGM 1934

Myrna Loy, William Powell

Anna Karenina
MGM (David O Selznick) 1935

Greta Garbo, Fredric March

The Devil is a Woman
Paramount 1935

Marlene Dietrich, Cesar Romero

Dodsworth
Samuel Goldwyn 1936

Walter Houston, Mary Astor

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Universal 1936

Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur

My Man Godfrey
Universal 1936

Carole Lombard, William Powell

The Petrified Forest
Warner Brothers 1936

Humphrey Bogart

The Awful Truth
Columbia 1937

Cary Grant, Irene Dunne

Dead End
Samuel Goldwyn 1937

Humphrey Bogart, Allen Jenkins

Easy Living
Paramount 1937

Jean Arthur

Saratoga
MGM 1937

Jean Harlow, Clark Gable

Algiers
Walter Wanger 1938

Alan Hale, Joseph Calleia, Charles Boyer,
Gene Lockhart, Stanley Fields

Always Goodbye
Twentieth Century-Fox 1938

Barbara Stanwyck

Bringing Up Baby
RKO 1938

Katharine Hepburn

Crime School
Warner Brothers 1938

Humphrey Bogart

Jezebel
Warner Brothers 1938

Henry Fonda, Bette Davis

Dark Victory
Warner Brothers 1939

Bette Davis, George Brent

Golden Boy
Columbia 1939

Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden