50 new things in 2023, part 13/50

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I got lucky with the thirteenth new-to-me thing: Fashions of 1934, a just-barely-pre-Code movie starring William Powell as a charming con artist and Bette Davis as the artist and designer who helps him launch a new scheme: pirating Paris fashions as soon as they hit New York. The collapse of this plan sparks another new plan, and so on, until Powell finds himself the owner of a Paris fashion house and the crimes have expanded from piracy to forgery, blackmail, and several varieties of fraud. It's all very light-hearted, helped along by a brisk run time of 1:17 including a Busby Berkeley musical number. Lots of fun and some stunning 1930s fashions, too.

It's streaming (in the US) on HBO Max if you feel like watching it.