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Sin Takes a Holiday (1930): Paul Stein’s Pre-Code Romance, Starring Constance Bennett

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Cast against type, Constancce Bennett plays Sylvia Brenner, a “plain” secretary

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Hollywood 2025: McConaughey, Michael Caine Team With ElevenLabs for AI-Versions of Their Voices

British thespian Michael Caine, who is 92, is joining the company’s newly launched Iconic Voice Marketplace.

Devil Wears Prada 2: Miranda Priestly and Andy Sachs Reunite

Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman will reprise their roles in “The Devil Wears Prada 2.”

Flowers of St. Francis: Rossellini’s Masterpiece, Co-Written with Fellini, Starring Aldo Fabrizi

The movie was not intended to be a biopic, but rather a portrait of some specific aspects of St. Francis’s personality, like his whimsy nature as “The Jester of God.”

Mummy, The (1932): Karl Freund’s Pre-Code Supernatural Horror, Starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann

While less profitable than its predecessors Dracula and Frankenstein, The Mummy was still a commercial and critical success.