Before Hollywood had boundaries, they weren't afraid to push the limits.
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Made in US
6.9/10
2003
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Cast
Jane Fonda
As Self - Narrator (voice)
Frances Dee
As Self - Interviewee
Karen Morley
As Self - Interviewee
Kitty Carlisle
As Self - Interviewee
Mae Madison
As Self - Interviewee
Mark Vieira
As Self - Interviewee
Mick LaSalle
As Self - Interviewee
Molly Haskell
As Self - Interviewee
Barbara Stanwyck
As Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
As Self (archive footage)
C. Aubrey Smith
As Self (archive footage)
Chester Morris
As Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable
As Self (archive footage)
Claudette Colbert
As Self (archive footage)
Dolores del Río
As Self (archive footage)
Fred Astaire
As Self (archive footage)
Fredric March
As Self (archive footage)
Gene Raymond
As Self (archive footage)
Ginger Rogers
As Self (archive footage)
Greta Garbo
As Self (archive footage)
Helen Twelvetrees
As Self (archive footage)
Irving Thalberg
As Self (archive footage)
James Cagney
As Self (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
As Self (archive footage)
Joan Blondell
As Self (archive footage)
Joan Crawford
As Self (archive footage)
John Gilbert
As Self (archive footage)
Johnny Weissmüller
As Self (archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
As Self (archive footage)
Kay Francis
As Self (archive footage)
Leslie Howard
As Self (archive footage)
Lewis Stone
As Self (archive footage)
Loretta Young
As Self (archive footage)
Norma Shearer
As Self (archive footage)
Mae West
As Self (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich
As Self (archive footage)
Maureen O'Sullivan
As Self (archive footage)
Miriam Hopkins
As Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy
As Self (archive footage)
Ricardo Cortez
As Self (archive footage)
Robert Montgomery
As Self (archive footage)
Ruth Chatterton
As Self (archive footage)
Tallulah Bankhead
As Self (archive footage)
William H. Hays
As Self (archive footage)
Gilbert Roland
As Self (archive footage)
Lee Phelps
As Self (archive footage)
Nat Pendleton
As Self (archive footage)
Warner Oland
As Self (archive footage)
Maurice Murphy
As Self (archive footage)
Herbert Marshall
As Self (archive footage)
George F. Marion
As Self (archive footage)
Aline MacMahon
As Self (archive footage)
Dorothy Mackaill
As Self (archive footage)
Paul Lukas
As Self (archive footage)
Jack La Rue
As Self (archive footage)
Allen Jenkins
As Self (archive footage)
Olin Howland
As Self (archive footage)
Jean Hersholt
As Self (archive footage)
Ann Harding
As Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant
As Self (archive footage)
William Gargan
As Self (archive footage)
Douglass Dumbrille
As Self (archive footage)
Cecil Cunningham
As Self (archive footage)
Gary Cooper
As Self (archive footage)
Maurice Chevalier
As Self (archive footage)
Virginia Bruce
As Self (archive footage)
Charles Bickford
As Self (archive footage)
Robert Barrat
As Self (archive footage)
John Barrymore
As Self (archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore
As Self (archive footage)
Wallace Beery
As Self (archive footage)
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