Peacock Alley (1930) PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD

I, for one, see her as beautiful --lovely lips & eyes and a very feminine voice. Unlike other commenters here, i think her acting is charming!

Mae is drop dead gorgeous in that Bolero hat.

Nailed it!
Nothing new under the sun!
The issues remain the same for eternity.
And there are no Bibles in New York! LOL!

Oh... my... still applies Today

I love her face in all those wonderful photos taken of her during the silent days, and before, as a Ziegfeld girl. I give her credit for trying to sustain her career, tackling what was, essentially, an entirely new medium. She was in her mid-forties, and we're still not kind to women for committing the sin of not looking 25 for the rest of their lives. Her eyes still sparkled here, and I hope they continued to do so, until the end. Here's to you, Miss Murray.

Interesting

MAE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL.PRETTY GOOD 👍 🤧 ACTRESS TOO.

❤️ 😍 LOVE Pre-Code 🎥 Films!!

The storyline cracks me up; she gets confused for a Hooker, and her Husband doesn't believe she isn't. Mae? She has a charm that projects over her acting, and makes her Immortal.

Loved the movie! The ending brought me tears of joy! 😢❤Thanks PizzFlix for the opportunity to see these pre code films!

Love the chance to see Mae Murray in anything.

Those days and now present circumstances the people behaviour is as same.

This was Jason Robards Sr. (1892–1963), father the son with the same name FYI

A woman like that could ruin my life,bless her.

90 years ago this astonishing film nailed the issues plaguing modern marriage and ought to be required reading today for any pre-marriage counselees.

The volume is too low.

With Mae Murray or not, this is a real turkey.😊

Interesting movie. Thanks for sharing.

Aloha, thanks for shsring.

Astounded at the snarky, judgemental comments on her about Mae's age. Arrogant ageist bi*tches.

Mae Murray was a very unique woman and her interview thirty years later brought me here 💝

So badly acted,awful,

Jason Robards' father.

Sounds like bacon sizzling throughout the film!

I miss how things should b

i watched this out of curiosity because it was a very early talkie. terrible acting, terrible scripting. i suppose people went to see this movie out of curiosity. the early scene where the guy talks to the girl what seems forever trying to convince her to be his mistress was a perfect example of playing to the novelty of movies with sound that was not just music.

Mae Murray, whose career flourished during the silent movie era, here in this early talkie, was 41 years old. Past her prime and showing it. What really stopped her advance into talking movies, however, was her speaking voice which wasn’t suited to sound films. As evidenced here, it’s thin and reedy. Her general acting style too was dated. Relying too much on the facial and body mannerisms necessary in silent movie acting but out of place when conversational dialogue furthered the story. Also featured here is actor Jason Robards whose son Jason Robards Jr. became an actor and the second husband of Lauren Ball after the death of Humphrey Bogart.

Totally ridiculous! It would be ever so nice to call for a rewrite of it were not for the wee bit problem of it being the year 2020!

Charming in a quite pathetic sort of a way!
Personally I would have dumped both thier sorry asses! ")

Mae Murray had had extensive plastic surgery by this point in her flagging career, and her body squeezed with girdles into a more 'girlish' shape. She couldn't act, her silent career was based on hair pulling, looking woeful and breathing hard, which was okay for silent film, but she'd had to make some changes to her 'talents' for sound films. By 1930 she was approaching Has-Been territory but her name still sold tickets. Throughout the 1920's she was remarkably popular and a golden goose for MGM, AND was one expensive star to have on the books: MGM spent 1,000's upon 1,000's of $$ catering to her whims. Her 4th husband, "Prince" Midivani, effectively sent her on a straight course to poverty, loss and humiliation. The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips became the old and broke silent film star doing stage work in rented dresses by the 1940's. She was spending her nights on a park bench and drinking herself into oblivion. No mansion to wonder about in in her twilight years for her, poor absurd creature.

This film shows me that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Cheaters will justify it no matter what! I can't be the only one who felt bad for the husband.

Mae Murry was about the cutest little trick on the West Coast.

Simply delightful story.

She looks like Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot! LOL

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What does Pre Code Hollywood mean?

she reminds me of the "bad acting" that was used with Bette Davis in WHATEVER HAPPEN TO BABY JANE

Geez, what a dull, plodding movie. Mae Murray has got to be one of the most unattractive pre-code stars I've ever seen.

l'd love to see the dresses in colour it would be amazing love these old movies TFS

Sweet little gem of a movie. Thanx. Lovely ending, too.💃

1/4 the way through and it's not going anywhere. If you disagree with someone on something so basic as marriage, you need to walk away.

A curio... Jason Robards, Sr looks so much like Jason Robards, Jr. Didn't know the father was an actor too....

Sadly- this has lost the `two-strip Technicolor` sequence that originally appeared about 7 minutes before the end of the film. It was only about three minutes in length, but it seems that no print of this film carries it.

A 1930 movie still emitting a 1920s Flapper vibe. Women's skirts still shorter than the longer length they would become in the 1930s. And yes, as other people have commented, Mae Murray looks aged and worn, past her prime, not the kind of woman men would lust after.

And the moral of that story is once a ho always a ho.

This guy WAS born yesterday. (LOL!)