What an adorable movie! The husband did everything with his wife’s happiness and well-being in mind, even when it meant putting off his own dreams. Yet he never once felt sorry for himself or complained or acted the martyr. They both just needed better communication skills so they didn’t keep reading each other wrong all the time!
It is a tender movie. The main characters were quite annoying whenever they assumed rather than communicate truthfully with each. Not too surprising for the times. Fine performances and production. Oscar nomination for Best Picture. The film quality has been nicely preserved. Borzage won Best Director. A worthwhile look at a slice of Americana for 1930s film fans. Enjoy!
This movie is NOT ONLY SWELL but totally ON THE LEVEL! All of the featured leads are the finest actors with great supporting players. I wonder why they called this "Bad Girl"? Makes you wonder... how did they do all of that back then? And with nothing made in China, only USA.
CLM I love the simple honesty these films' portray! People are too afraid to say what they believe, unless their face is hidden, then it's trash talk, like on the internet...
In the original book and play it was implied that the girl got pregnant the night she stayed late in Eddie's room and she had to get married. Even though it's pre code the studio said that the timeline had to change in order to keep the young lady's virtue intact until after the wedding. No matter, this is a top notch film and James Dunn deserved an Oscar for his role.
Another gem by Frank Borzage, who not only won an Academy Award for Directing this film but in 1927 won the very first Academy Award for Directing. He was a master of this genre -- two young people in love who face adversity in the real world and over all odds find happiness in the end. Audiences loved it then and now.
Starting at 5 minutes, good shots of Luna Park and Coney Island when it was Brooklyn's playground. There was no Vegas yet, and NYC supplied it all. My father worked as a waiter there in the 30's and it was one of the happiest times of his life. This pre-Code piece feels much like the life there he talked about.
+San Francisco Professor 1931 USA..Forget "Great Depression". People enjoyed life. We had a "middle class". Gold Standard and Gold was in peoples pockets. Gold and Silver coins. Before Roosevelt and the undermining and sell out of the USA. My Grandparents time. Still remember their talks of life during this time. Demographics were good. People were united in the classroom to the job. One can buy a Tommy Gun at Sears and no permits background checks. It was a great time.
Love the way the Fox pre-code films were produced. They had some nice dialogue written into those films, as if you watched a stage production instead of a typical early talkie with slow speech patterns. Then, again, Hollywood as a whole experienced this change around the 1931-32 period when dialogue became a little faster in films as people got used to the talkies by then.
"when someone delivers baloney to my door, I always give them a receipt!" Hahahahh. Also, some of the camera shots here are pretty good for the time (e.g. the roller coaster)
Hard to believe it's his 1st film, such a character. And when he begs the doctor...😭😭😭 and the boxer 🤣Loved him with Shirley Temple and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Turned out to be life is like fiction Ty for posting it.
I ran across this by accident and gladly so! I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and am surprised that I've never viewed it until today! Thank you for posting this movie!
Beautiful print and transfer. Thank you. I thought this was going to be Sally Eilers movie, but James Dunn really steps up in the second half and steals it. Why are these pre-code movies so much more realistic than any of the movies being made today?
@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="70">1:10</a> That’s what my Grandma looked like in her wedding picture. The same vail form fitted dress, a huge bouquet of flowers. I miss my Grandma, she was so good to me, so understanding, so loving. She always had time for me, never rude or cut me off while talking. Nothing like my mother. It was my fathers mother. I love you Little Grandma! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌈😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️😣☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
What a beautiful movie if only life was like this these days. People was so different back then l know there would of been mean nasty people too. But not like theses days now l wish l lived in those days. Everything was so ?? I just can’t think of the word to explain what l feel but such a much better time. Just the story line the movie itself no sex no swearing. It just makes me smile feel so happy watching these old movies. Thank you for uploading this wonderful movie ❤❤❤
I loved it too!! I have written down a collection of "swell" sayings and come backs from these old movies and they are so much fun to say to folks now-a-days, and watch their reactions. Thanks for the great film.
Jami Conroy I would love to see your popular phrases and comebacks list! I am always saying things to my family and friends from my 1930’s and 1940’s movies.....but nobody gets me! Like, “turn blue” and “so’s your old man”
I know love the era ..my Grandparents & Great Aunts & and uncles time...they Married for life too....... love the Bridal gown..I love how women are getting more feminine now ....yeah!!
There was an old SNL skit where they played actors from this era.... Funniest line was a guy who said, "Why.....I oughta sock you!" Great lines like that....and fist fights where the guys never even lost their hats....And they always had hats!
Very enjoyable movie showing us the belief system/behaviors from those times! ~It’s funny how the flirting behavior of these two started out nasty, but it a humorous way~
What a beautiful movie ... so heartwarming and so cute .. I just love Eddie & Dot and Edna ... I wish I could find another “ Eddie “. Just beautiful ❤️😍❤️
@Chirping Trees true because things where diferente to them and they despised alot modernization but still these movies are classics to me and much better then many of the ones today and I'm a gothic victorian women who dresses in period clothing and approve 😉
Entertaining film, but in a story supposedly about a woman, it focuses a lot on a husband whose sacrifices are really all about his own insecurities. Well acted and shot though. Of course his actions today would rightly be seen as emotionally abusive (wife can't work, women fault for wearing clothes that attract men, no communication in major decisions).
The only people who stay in a hospital for two weeks are those who in a coma or a medically assisted coma and dying. Birth of a child, it's virtually the same day you deliver that you go home provided there were no major problems.
My grandmother spent two weeks in the hospital in the 40's. The other one had her appendix out in 1925-26 and was in the hospital for a while. I still have the bill for it and it was around $126.00 for the operation and room and board.
@@RADIUMGLASS These days it is too expensive to keep people in the hospital! Part of the reason for the increase in cost is that medicine is now able to accomplish far more than it could 60 years ago. My parents were both doctors, and over time I've been able to see with my own eyes how much more today's doctors can do for their sick patients. Today dozens of well-paid doctors, nurses, technicians and others are involved in each patient's care. For example, in the relatively recent past a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence. Now some people are cured of cancer, and many others live decent lives with the disease under control for years. Likewise a heart attack used to be treated by putting the patient into a hospital bed and more or less simply waiting to see the outcome: life or death. Now there are stents, heart surgery and many other tools to keep a patient alive. This is such a different world from my younger days.
@@RalphDratman I was reading on another site that in 1989 it was common for a neurosurgeon to make $375,000 a year in the late 80s into the 90s and now it's about half of that due to rising expenses. The costs of operating a practice has certainly gone up, but yeah decades ago you either lived or died after getting a heart attack, there wasn't much that could be done.
I love this movie; I've seen it at least five times. There's something quite sincere and convincing about Dunn & Eilers' relationship, even though the script, conventions, and time constraints lead it into melodrama by the end. If Sally Eilers had only been a tap dancer, she'd have had it all over Ruby Keeler : ) Frank Borzage was good stuff. Thanks for the beautiful quality upload.
James Dunn produced an interesting portrayal of his character. Wikipedia lists 116 films directed by Frank Borsage. Like Borsage's Liliom (1930), this is a good character study. Well worth seeing. Here is an alphabetized list (from Wikipedia) of films directed by Frank Borsage. 7th Heaven (1927) A Farewell to Arms (1932) A Flickering Light (1916) A Mormon Maid (1917) After Tomorrow (1932) Age of Desire, The 1923) An Honest Man (1918) Atom, The 1918) Back Pay (1922) Bad Girl (1931) Battle of Gettysburg, The (1913) Big City (1937) Big Fisherman, The (1959) Billy Jim (1922) Billy the Kid (1941) Children of Dust (1923) China Doll (1958) Circle, The (1925) Code of Honor, The (1916) Courtin' of Calliope Clew, The (1916) Curse of Iku, The (1918) Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925) Demon of Fear, The (1916) Desire (1936) Disputed Passage (1939) Dixie Merchant, The (1926) Doctors' Wives (1931) Dollars of Dross (1916) Duke of Chimney Butte, The (1921) Early to Wed (1926) First Year, The (1926) Flight Command (1940) Flirtation Walk (1934) Flying Colors (1917) Forgotten Prayer, The (1916) Geisha, The (1914) Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921) Ghost Flower, The (1918) Good Provider, The (1922) Granddad (1913) Gratitude of Wanda, The (1913) Green Light (1937) Gun Woman, The (1918) Hearts Divided (1936) His Butler's Sister (1943) History Is Made at Night (1937) Humoresque (1920) I Take This Woman (1940) I've Always Loved You (1946) Immediate Lee (1916) Innocent's Progress (1918) Jack (1916) Journey Beneath the Desert (1961) Knight of the Trail (1915) Lady, The (1925) Land o' Lizards (1916) Lazybones (1925) Life's Harmony (1916) Liliom (1930) Little Man, What Now? (1934) Living on Velvet (1935) Lucky Star (1929) Magnificent Doll (1946) Man's Castle (1933) Mannequin (1937) Marriage License? (1926) Matchin' Jim (1916) Moonrise (1948) Mortal Storm, The (1940) Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine, The (1913) Nell Dale's Men Folks (1916) No Greater Glory (1934) Nth Commandment, The (1923) Nugget Jim's Pardner (1916) Pilgrim, The (1916) Pitch o' Chance, The (1915) Pride and the Man, The (1916) Pride of Palomar, The (1922) Prudence on Broadway (1919) Quicksands of Deceit, The (1916) River, The (1929) Samson (1914) Secrets (1924) Secrets (1933) Seven Sweethearts (1942) Shining Hour, The (1938) Shipmates Forever (1935) Shoes That Danced, The (1918) Silken Spider, The (1916) Smilin' Through (1941) Society for Sale (1918) Song o' My Heart (1930) Spanish Main, The (1945) Stage Door Canteen (1943) Stranded (1935) Strange Cargo (1940) Street Angel (1928) That Gal of Burke's (1916) That's My Man (1947) They Had to See Paris (1929) Three Comrades (1938) Till We Meet Again (1944) Toton the Apache (1919) Two Bits (1916) Typhoon, The (1914) Unlucky Luke (1916) Until They Get Me (1917) Valley of Silent Men, The (1922) Vanishing Virginian, The (1942) Wages for Wives (1925) Wee Lady Betty (1917) Who Is to Blame? (1918) Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919) Wrath of the Gods, The (1914) Young America (1932) Young as You Feel (1931)
The plot evolved a bit like The Gift of the Magi and had so many great lines that i had to save it to watch again and again. What a restored treasure!! The bride's maids gowns were perfect and made me want to remarry in my old age.
I love the opening tune and the song "Come on baby and beg for it",the band is playing on the boat and Sally sings.I cant get enough of the early 30s "pop"music,post Charleston but pre-swing.
+ferociousgumby --SAY... Someday you'll grow up. Won't that be swell, ya little mope? You should thank God for your blessings, not your petty little juvenile observations.
+ferociousgumby i'll trade your "like" and a "wtf" and "koool" or "maaaan" any day for pure silence.....the eternal..."WHAT" is one that can't die out.....merde!....if you're french.
James Dunn is impressive here - very natural, especially for his first feature film. But kudos also to Minna Gombell, who would later make such an impression as the nurse in THE SNAKE PIT.
