A look at The Dark Horse, a 1932 political comedy starring Warren William and Bette Davis. A fantastic start is cooled off by a wrong turn. Still strong overall.
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Despite a scene to forget with The Yacht Club Boys, Stage Struck offers Warren William his best non-detective role at Warner Brothers since pre-code times. Starring Dick Powell and Joan Blondell.
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A look at the character of Kurt Anderson of Employees’ Entrance, one of the defining pre-code roles of the Warren William legacy.
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A look at a Warner Brothers & First National ad placed in the 1933 Film Daily Yearbook showing off their top 16 stars for the coming year.
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A review of Times Square Playboy (1936), which pits the Main Street ideals of Pig Head Bancroft (Gene Lockhart) against the Wall Street lifestyle of his old friend Vic Arnold (Warren William). Based on the George M. Cohan play The Home Towners.
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10 questions with John Stangeland, author of Warren William: Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood previews many facets of William’s life and career to be covered more extensively inside Stangeland’s book.
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Far from perfect but nevertheless a good time, Upperworld stars Warren William, who gives a fine account of himself, but features Ginger Rogers who steals the show.
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Warren William refused the role played by Paul Lukas in Warner Brothers I Found Stella Parish going on suspension instead. A look at some potential motivations.
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Warren William is often top-billed, even in films such as Lady for a Day or Gold Diggers of 1933 when you wouldn’t necessarily expect him to be. Here’s why.
Read more →Warren William warms-up for his later leading pre-code cad roles in Under 18, as Marian Marsh shines in the lead.
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