WAC Double Features: Girl Missing/Illicit "Cartoon"

WAC Double Features: Girl Missing/Illicit "Cartoon"Independent women take center stage in a twin bill showcasing the range and moxie of pre Code filmmaking. The pace leaps and lines snap in Girl Missing as gal pals Glenda Farrell and Mary Brian set out to solve the mystery of a gold digger who disappears during her honeymoon. Not even murder will stop these sassy sleuths. "Married love or illicit: which does the modern girl prefer?" the studio's ad for Illicit asks. Barbara Stanwyck portrays a woman

who discovers - perhaps too late - that her husband's ancestral chateau is home to witches

Dandridge plays Jane Richards

the two strike up a friendship and complications - romantic and political - ensue

Lew Ayres and James Best play folk caught up in a deadly Civil War re-enactment

Join the adventurers as they encounter a perilous array of prehistoric beasts

until Smith's grinning houseboy

Don't touch that dial: An entertainment romp is yours in Radio Stars on Parade

entering talent shows

" The advice sticks

Sweetheart

slapstick and silliness than you can shake a Spacely Space Sprocket at

" "An American in Paris") directs this musical film version of the acclaimed Broadway production about a Baghdad poet who charms his way into the Wazir's harem