PRE-CODE PARTY: BLONDE CRAZY (1931)

PRE-CODE PARTY:
BLONDE CRAZY (1931)
September 18, 2022
$11 GA / $8 OFS

In the pre-code era of the 1930s, Barbara Stanwyck would lay haymakers and Joan Blondell could carelessly ash cigarettes over expensive furniture. It was a lawless period of filmmaking where cocktails, sexuality, and rolling smoke inundated the screen. Olympia Film Society’s Pre-Code Party presents some of classic Hollywood’s most scandalous titles, where jewel thieves and party animals ruled the night. Each film in the series will be introduced by OFS’s director of programming, Rob Patrick. 

Joan Blondell was impossibly popular in the 1930s. The Warner Bros star was quick-witted, foul-tempered, and one of the funniest actors of her time. Blonde Crazy (1931) is maybe the peak of her powers. She slaps everyone, confronts Hollywood bad guy James Cagney, and throws back a bottle of Old Granddad bourbon. No rock is left unturned in this whac-a-mole of a movie, where chairs are thrown, playing cards are fanned out, and money is stolen. Censors would never let this movie be made only a few years later. Come for the humor, stay for the now legendary bathtub scene.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth / 1931 / US / 79 min

SCREENING: SAT 9/18 7PM
Tickets available at the box office 1/2 hour before showtimes.

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