Complicated Women
Documentary | TV Movie
Release Date
May 6, 2003
Duration
56 min
Status
Released
Language
en
Overview
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.
Casts
Self - Narrator (voice)
Jane Fonda
Self - Interviewee
Frances Dee
Self - Interviewee
Karen Morley
Self - Interviewee
Kitty Carlisle
Self - Interviewee
Mae Madison
Self - Interviewee
Mark Vieira
Self - Interviewee
Mick LaSalle
Self - Interviewee
Molly Haskell
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck
Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Self (archive footage)
C. Aubrey Smith
Self (archive footage)
Chester Morris
Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable
Self (archive footage)
Claudette Colbert
Self (archive footage)
Dolores del Río
Self (archive footage)
Fred Astaire
Self (archive footage)
Fredric March
Self (archive footage)
Gene Raymond
Self (archive footage)
Ginger Rogers
Self (archive footage)
Greta Garbo
Self (archive footage)
Helen Twelvetrees
Self (archive footage)
Irving Thalberg
Self (archive footage)
James Cagney
Self (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
Self (archive footage)
Joan Blondell
Self (archive footage)
Joan Crawford
Self (archive footage)
John Gilbert
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Weissmüller
Self (archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
Self (archive footage)
Kay Francis
Self (archive footage)
Leslie Howard
Self (archive footage)
Lewis Stone
Self (archive footage)
Loretta Young
Self (archive footage)
Norma Shearer
Self (archive footage)
Mae West
Self (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich
Self (archive footage)
Maureen O'Sullivan
Self (archive footage)
Miriam Hopkins
Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy
Self (archive footage)
Ricardo Cortez
Self (archive footage)
Robert Montgomery
Self (archive footage)
Ruth Chatterton
Self (archive footage)
Tallulah Bankhead
Self (archive footage)
William H. Hays
Self (archive footage)
Gilbert Roland
Self (archive footage)
Lee Phelps
Self (archive footage)
Nat Pendleton
Self (archive footage)
Warner Oland
Self (archive footage)
Maurice Murphy
Self (archive footage)
Herbert Marshall
Self (archive footage)
George F. Marion
Self (archive footage)
Aline MacMahon
Self (archive footage)
Dorothy Mackaill
Self (archive footage)
Paul Lukas
Self (archive footage)
Jack La Rue
Self (archive footage)
Allen Jenkins
Self (archive footage)
Olin Howland
Self (archive footage)
Jean Hersholt
Self (archive footage)
Ann Harding
Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant
Self (archive footage)
William Gargan
Self (archive footage)
Douglass Dumbrille
Self (archive footage)
Cecil Cunningham
Self (archive footage)
Gary Cooper
Self (archive footage)
Maurice Chevalier
Self (archive footage)
Virginia Bruce
Self (archive footage)
Charles Bickford
Self (archive footage)
Robert Barrat
Self (archive footage)
John Barrymore
Self (archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore
Self (archive footage)
Wallace Beery
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