Warren William & Pre-code Hollywood

Monday, May 16 @ 7:30 p.m.

Warren William was often cast as the unsympathetic, woman-seducing scoundrel in the 1930s pre-code era of movie making. He also starred as the big screen's first Perry Mason and was Julius Caesar to Claudette Colbert's Cleopatra in Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 epic film. So why has such a prominent actor been lost in the annals of movie history? John Stangeland, author of the book Warren William: Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-code Hollywood, will give an introduction to the actor, explain the influences on his career, and show The Mouthpiece, in which Williams plays a crafty and imaginative lawyer whose clients are crooks.