Fashions of 1934

Fashions of 1934What was in fashion in 1934? Comedy, con men, Orry Kelly gowns, Busby Berkeley production numbers and in their only screen pairing, two of cinema's greatest stars: William Powell and Bette Davis. The story whisks audiences off to Paris with a fashion sharpie (Powell) and a designer (Davis) who hope to bootleg the hottest haute couture and flood New York with knockoffs. The two stars make larceny seem like great fun. And Berkeley's numbers are

like the orchestra at the film's antic conclusion

Garbo followed up her smash talkie debut Anna Christie with this tale of a woman whose tender relationship with the younger clergyman is crushed by her remorse over her illicit affair with the wealthy rou�

One of filmdom's biggest stars in the silent era

she is startled to receive a wedding invitation in the post

Rapid Fire) portrays the son

and Glenda Farrell are but a few of the stars learning to swing in these short sportaculars

Stuyvesant (Keaton)

splendid Sixties fashions and full-on funky score by Quincy Jones with contributions from Sheb Wooley

She loves him when he goes away for months

Brian Keith (Family Affair) plays the lead driver

Now into his well-ordered life enters plucky

thrust into a New York netherworld of espionage when a beautiful British agent named Jane (Nancy Coleman) is wheeled into his ambulance after a car crash