The jazz age

St. Louis Cotton Club Band. Photograph by Block Brothers Studio, ca. 1925. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints Collections. Block Brothers Studio Collection. N27534.

As a way to look back on the Dirty Thirties and the dark era in history that it was, we’ve put together a list of the best modern TV shows set in the 1930s!

Richard Brody on “It Girls: Flappers, Jazz Babies & Vamps,” a series at Film Forum, featuring Lilyan Tashman, Patsy Ruth Miller, Joan Blondell, and others.

The Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, but also in London, Berlin and Paris. The phrase was meant to emphasize the period’s socia…