Pre-Code Hollywood Movies: 18 Top Pre-Code Films

Play the Film on Instagram: "Eddie Cantor was a megastar of vaudeville and Broadway in the 1910s and 20s who transitioned to a lucrative film and radio career in the 30s. The films are difficult to recommend due to Eddie’s broad, eye-rolling performance style and reliance on blackface, but they offer a fascinating time capsule of Pre-Code Hollywood’s uneasy dialogue with the theater it relied on for talent and story material. The gleefully nonsensical plot of 1931’s Palmy Days involves a fake ps