When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts . . . I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.
Louise Brooks
[on his cameos] "One of the earliest of these was in The Lodger (1927), the story of Jack the Ripper. My appearance called for me to walk up the stairs of the rooming house. Since my walk-ons in subsequent pictures would be equally strenuous - boarding bu...
Alfred Hitchcock
Most people hear `When the Levee Breaks` and they go, `Well, it`s just an homage to the 1927 Mississippi flood, the source of all these blues songs, so it`s really more about the blues.` Or they say, somewhat more cleverly, it`s actually about fear of wom...
Franz Ferdinand
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.
Dora Russell