Nothing says Hollywood quite like the movie musical. The advent of sound in filmmaking created an explosion for musical movies, with the genre reaching its peak in the 1930s through the 1940s.
About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...
Despite only lasting four short years from 1930 to 1934, the pre-code era of Hollywood’s Golden Age produced films that pushed the boundaries of cinema and storytelling, even by today’s standards.
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