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.
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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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