MBC INTERACTIVE ARCHIVE - USA: The Hollywood Studios – The Rest – The “Poverty Row”

USA | 1930s

USA | 1930s

USA: The Hollywood Studios – The Rest – The “Poverty Row”

The Hollywood Studios – The Rest – The “Poverty Row”

B-Moviemaking in “Gower Gulch”

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2 Rebublic Pictures Studios, Between Poverty Row and the Majors, 1940. USpc

The Players

1 Oscar Micheaux

1 Reno Browne, Queen of the Western, Monogram Pictures, 1940. USpc

2b Dorothy Davenport (Mrs. Wallace Reid)

8 Monty Hale, a Republic Star, USpin

31 Johnny Weismuller

54 Paul Robeson

58d Andy Devine

59d Clarence Muse

60 Langston Hughes, International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House.

132 Buster Crabbe

234 Cab Calloway

438 Tom Mix, The Arizona Wildcat, 1928. USstill, edited

"Somewhere Between The Majors and Poverty Row"
Republic Pictures

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3 The Lone Ranger

4 The Lone Ranger and Tonto

126b Roy Rogers comic, 1947. UScomic

130 Allan Rocky Lane, Renegades of Sonora, 1948. USflipbook

120 Gene Autry, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, 1935. USsm

121 Gene Autry, Melody Ranch, 1940. sh

127d The Lone Ranger, 1938. yp

127b The Lone Ranger, 1938. yp

126 Roy Rogers Deputy, USpin, 1953.

127c The Lone Ranger, 1938. yp

Monogram Pictures

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1 Leo Gorcey and the Bowery Boys, Angels in Disguise, 1949. USlc

111 Anita Lhoest, Buster Crabbe, Johnny Weismuller, Sheena, 1955. anfk

112 Tarzan, Bomba, the Jungle Boy, 1957. anfk

Sol Lesser Studios

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142 Buster Crabbe, Flash Gordon pin, Kellogg PEP. 1946. USpin

140b Buck Rogers Spaceship, 1939. USspaceship

133 Buster Crabbe, Tarzan the Fearless (Call of Tarzan), 1933. Ip

133a Buster Crabbe, Tarzan the Fearless, 1933. Ip

135 Buster Crabbe, Tarzan the Fearless, 1933. up

138 Buster Crabbe, Flash Gordon_s Trip to Mars, 1938. sh

143 Johnny Weissmuler, Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, 1946. USad (RKO)

137 Buster Crabbe, Flash Gordon, 1936. USstill Autographed by Buster Crabbe.

140c Buck Rogers Spaceship, 1939. USspaceship

134 Buster Crabbe, Tarzan the Fearless, 1933. shlg

Mascot Pictures

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436n Tom Mix Straight Shooters_ Rocket Parachute, 1936. UStoy

146 Tom Mix, The Miracle Rider, 1935. awfk

436o Tom Mix Straight Shooters_ Rocket Parachute, 1936. UStoy

437 Tom Mix Straight Shooters_ Signal Arrowhead, 1947. UStoy

146d Tom Mix, The Miracle Rider, 1935. awfk

436 The Life of Tom Mix, 1933. USp

436M The Life of Tom Mix, 1933. USp

Million Dollar Productions,
Toddy Pictures, And
The "Race Film"

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2 Sam Newfield, Harlem on the Prairie, 1937. US1sheet

1 Toddy Pictures, The Bronze Venus - The Duke is Tops, 1938 US1sheet reprint autographed by Lena Horne

3 Sam Neufield, Ralph Cooper, Racket Doctor - Am I Guilty, 1940. USlc

8 Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, Cotton Club Parade, Story Weather, 1933. USsm

570 Oscar Micheaux The Betrayal, 1948. USlc

275 Clarence Muse, David Arlen, Langston Hughes, Way Down South, 1932. Republished 2017. USbook Woodcuts by Blanding Sloan

275c Clarence Muse, David Arlen, Langston Hughes, Way Down South, 1932. Republished 2017. USbook Woodcuts by Blanding Sloan

275d Clarence Muse, David Arlen, Langston Hughes, Way Down South, 1932. Republished 2017. USbook Woodcuts by Blanding Sloan

7 Duke Ellington, Mood Indigo. 1929. USsm

162 Rex Ingram, The Green Pastures, 1936. USp

162b Rex Ingram, The Green Pastures, 1936. USp

166 Bill Bojangles Robinson, The Mikado, 1939. USp

550 Ethel Waters, Eddie Rochester Anderson, Lena Horne, Cabin in the Sky, 1943. USad

"Educational" Films and Exploitation

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100b2 Fighting the White Slave Traffic, 1927. USsp

100 Fighting the White Slave Traffic, 1927. USsp

176 Dr. M. Sayle Taylor, Married Love, 1929. USp

176b-2 Dr. M. Sayle Taylor, The Male Motor, 1932. USbook

176d Dorothy Davenport (as Mrs. Wallace Reid), Melville Shyler, Road to Ruin, 1934. USh

176b Dr. M. Sayle Taylor, Married Love, 1929. USp

178c Louis Gasnier, Reefer Madness, 1936. USpc 1982

176d Dorothy Davenport (as Mrs. Wallace Reid), Melville Shyler, Road to Ruin, 1934. USh

98k Tod Browning, Freaks, 1932. UShrr1950s

178 Reefer Madness, 1936. UScolcard

178b Reefer Madness, 1936. UScolcard

177 Cocaine, The Pace That Kills, 1935. USposter reprint

182 The Devil_s Harvest, 1942. UScolcard

182b The Devil_s Harvest, 1942. UScolcard

176c Dorothy Davenport (as Mrs. Wallace Reid), Melville Shyler, Road to Ruin, 1934. USh

999 Republic Studios badge, 1930s. USbadge