Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable

Special guests Danny Reid and Kim Luperi, co-authors of the new book Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Era, join hosts Caroline Golum and Cristina Cacioppo to introduce the film. The book will be available for sale before and after the show courtesy of Terrace Books.

Heralded, alongside Baby Face, as one of Barbara Stanwyck’s most iconic pre-code roles, Night Nurse finds our tough-as-nails heroine “going straight” as a live-in caretaker for a pair of sickly society children trapped in a web of wealth and dysfunction. While their dipsomaniacal mother flits from bender to bender, household chauffeur Nick (a dastardly and dashing Clark Gable) takes household matters into his own hands – to lurid and shocking results!

Can Barbara, aided by co-star and “world’s greatest trooper” Joan Blondell, save these forlorn waifs from the jaws of destruction? How many times will our slinky stars change clothes on screen? And what’s really behind Gable’s pencil-thin mustache? Find out this month at the Pre-Code Parade!

Following this screening, join us in the bar for cocktail specials and merriment while also purchasing a copy of Pre-code Essentials!